Walnut Creek -- Fire officials suspect arson in the four-alarm blaze that sent smoke and flames billowing from an office complex near Highway 24 last night.
Workers in the seven-building complex were led out quickly as the fire engulfed a three-story building on Camino Diablo and spread to two other buildings, said Battalion Chief Clark Walker of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. No injuries were reported.
Walker said arson investigators are suspicious because the fire spread so rapidly. The building at 2950 Camino Diablo was most damaged, but the blaze also damaged buildings at 2960 and 2940 Camino Diablo.
The fire was reported at 5:30 p.m. and was controlled in about two hours, with 60 firefighters at the scene. Some firefighters planned to stay all night putting out hot spots.
"It was a very difficult fire to put out because the buildings are so close," Walker said.
The blaze started on the upper floors of the complex, which hold offices for lawyers, dentists, travel agents, therapists and other businesses.
The damage to the buildings is estimated to be more than half a million dollars.
Although the fire sent a haze of smoke over the nearby Interstate 680-Highway 4 interchange during commute hours, traffic was not affected, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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Arson or Fire in 1998
Transgender Murders - this will surprise many
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By RICK HURD | rhurd@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
November 7, 2013 at 2:48 am
rhurd@bayareanewsgroup.com
WALNUT CREEK — A transgender person who identified as a woman and was found dead along southbound Interstate 680 near the Walnut Creek BART station on Wednesday morning was identified by the Contra Costa Coroner’s Office on Thursday.
A coroner’s deputy confirmed that Natalie Nereza, 25, of Concord, likely jumped to her death from the BART tracks between the Lafayette and Pleasant Hill stations. She was found just north of the Olympic Boulevard exit near the Highway 24 junction.
Police were summoned about 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday after passing motorists saw the body.
Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.
Emmon Bodfish - The Druid Murders of Orinda and the Land Grab
Borrowed from another blogger - links lead here
zagria.blogspot.com
18 August 2013
Emmon Bodfish (1943 – 1999) druid, plumber, investment advisorOriginally from Ohio, Emmon Bodfish was active in the Reformed Druids of North America. He produced the Druid Missal-Any Magazine 1983-1991, some of which was reprinted in A Reformed Druid Anthology, 2nd Edition, Volume 3: The Magazine Volume. At this time he corresponded with trans woman Tadhg MacCrossan, in the period before she wrote The Sacred Cauldron. His wisdom is still quoted on Druid sites.
As his prior identity, Margaret, Bodfish ran a pool maintenance and plumbing business, The Blue Lagoon. Later he worked as an investment advisor. He owned a simple home in the affluent Orinda area outside San Francisco. He also owned a town-house in Marin County. In the late nineties he was apparently isolated and depressed, and occasionally reverted to being a woman.
In June 1999 Emmon was found bludgeoned to death. The next day his son Max Wills was found, an apparent suicide in a Santa Monica hotel room. Max was known to have suffered from long term depression but was reluctant to kill himself while his mother was alive.
Later the police discovered a floor safe containing $60,000 in gold and coins. A drill had been found at the same spot but there was no sign that it was used to pry out the safe. In addition a police investigator apparently contracted Q fever in the Bodfish home.
- Samhain 1986. "Samhain: The Other World". Reposted at: www.opednews.com/articles/Samhain-The-Other-World-by-Emmon-Bodfish-081029-130.html.
- Isaac Bonewits & Michael Scharding (eds).A Reformed Druid Anthology, 2nd Edition, Volume 3: The Magazine Volume. Online at: http://orgs.carleton.edu/druids/arda.
- Ed Walsh. " Bodfish likely struggled with killer, report says". Bay Area Reporter, 28/08/99. Online at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.true-crime/_QyBWhoc5SE.
- Ed Walsh. "Reclusive Bodfish had stash of herbal remedies, vitamins: Report says liver was normal". Bay Area Reporter, 10/29/99. Online at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.true-crime/OpbPg1-y3ds.
- Ed Walsh. "Bodfish investigator may have gotten rare disease from Orinda home". Bay Area Reporter, 2/4/00. Online at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.true-crime/E9-N8dH6ixw.
- Charlie Goodyear. "Diary Prompts Theories in Orinda Slaying / Police suspect mother-son death pact". SFGate, March 31, 2000. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Diary-Prompts-Theories-in-Orinda-Slaying-Police-2766298.php.
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The murder remains unsolved. Different possibilities have been suggested including transphobia, family involvement, a fustrated robbery and even, based on an entry in his diary, that Emmon contracted his own death.
The Druid sites do not mention the murder.
Labels: murdered, plumber, Religious
