Google street view of water street.
the time I was living in vancouver, working on water street at a picture framing company called imagistics. the owner had just moved to the new loft when the place she rented at burned down. the owner of that building was storing cardboard in the halls which helped the fire spread so fast, but it didn't look like that sort of thing or that's what the police thought after questioning him.
the previous picture framer she hired was also wanted for questioning about the fire and allegedly stealing money from the company, the owner of the framing store thought he was hiding at his sisters. while working there I heard some things she said about him hiding in Vancouver and that she had been told he was a drug addict, and that was what the stolen money was for.
one day while she was describing the night of the fire to a customer she let slip some details about where and how the fire was set and where she was at the time the fire started and it seemed to me she seemed to know a lot about how the fire was set. at one point she must of thought the customer also thought it unusual how detailed her description was as she qualified it with that's what the fire chief told her, and because he couldn't tell her exactly what he knew because it was under investigation, so from there she imagined the remainder which I guess was her way of explaining away why she seemed to know what happened that night. it did seem strange she knew so much about where the fire began.
how this incident could be used in a story. they want to use the guy for use in espionage and so threaten her with black mail if she dosnt go along with their story. they know she was a few blocks away filling up her vehicle and some extra jerrycans with gasoline and say they can make it look like she started the fire if she dosnt accuse the employee of stealing checks from her so they can arrest him and then frame him with setting the fire.
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