From WFTV.com:
Firefighters showed up to a small fire in a condominium and, when they went inside, they found it was booby trapped with explosives. Now they’re searching for the man who lives there. This is all happening at the Springwood Condos off 434, just east of I-4. Investigators are still trying to determine if this man was trying to hurt firefighters. We’re told, firefighters climbed into the condo through an open window. That’s where they saw the smoke coming from. When they got inside, they saw dozens of small devices, little bags and boxes with wires coming out.
Oops!
"At that time, firefighters were just about to start to make entry through the front door. Immediately, they were told not to make entry through the front door because it could be booby-trapped. So we were very, very lucky," says Alan Harris, Seminole County Fire Rescue.
Could be booby traps, could be nothing. Better to be careful.
As for the man who lives in that condo, when a condo employee approached him, he took off. The sheriff’s office chopper is up searching for him.
Is it a Black Helicopter?
Neighbors describe him as very strange, usually dressing in all black with a tin foil hat.
I swear, on a case of Shiner Bock, I didn’t make this up.
Here's the current version of that story, from the same site...
Seminole County firefighters thought they had an explosive situation on their hands Tuesday. They responded to what they thought was a condo fire near 434 and I-4 in Longwood. When they went inside, it looked like the place was booby-trapped. But that was just the beginning. Firefighters were worried because they were just about to go in the front door when one noticed all of the strange wires. They called in the bomb squad, who spent much of the day taking apart the devices, while deputies searched for the man who put them there.
| Come out, come out, what-... errr... wherever you are!" |
Firefighters were the first to arrive, thinking unit 166-A was on fire. Kim Day saw it for herself. "I was emptying the trash and I saw smoke pouring out of the building and the man that lives there was standing over here and he saw me and started running."
| "I have been observed! I must abscond!" |
Firefighter Mike Resnick was the first one inside, crawling through a window, then right back out again.
"Holy spit!"
"Wossa motta, Mike?"
"Do NOT go in there!" |
"Basically, there was a charcoal pit on the floor and wires going to suspicious objects from the front door all the way back through the structure," Resnick explains. He called in the bomb squad. They detonated the packages.
Turns out they were just bunches of wires and batteries placed among the foil covered windows and doors.
| That's one of the simpler methods of keeping out the mind-control rays. It doesn't always work... Must resist mind... control... ray... |
Tarps separated the rooms. There was even an altar, but nothing criminal.
| "I mean, he hadn't actually sacrificed anybody... Not recently, anyway." |
"According to our bomb disposal experts, nowhere in there was anything that would go boom," says Steve Olson, Seminole County Sheriff's Office. Instead, they found a homemade burglar alarm and a device to open a door amid trunks with videos and piles of trash and clothing.
Ryan Cullen was one of eight families who couldn't get home. His upstairs neighbor, Richard Dolan, hasn't tried to come back. The condo owner says Dolan has already been evicted. "He's very bizarre and strange. He sometimes wears a foil hat on his head, wears white robes and carries a staff, just very strange," Cullen says.
| He sounds so... so... mainstreamed. |
Now deputies want to find him to get him medical help.
| "Time for your meds, Mr. Dolan!" |
But Dolan could still face charges. The state fire marshal is still deciding whether the fire in the condo is considered arson and the owner who was renting to Dolan could press charges for criminal mischief.
| "They're coming to lock me away, hah hah! They're coming to lock me away!" |
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