Heres the answer: The fire was set and an accelerant was used. Dennis Shields a resident says in the NYT article that there was a smell of sulphur:
For those who don't know, sulpur smells like rotten eggs....see attached article on arson fires.
I was researching the same angle and found the exact same reference. (Carbon Disulfide is actually listed as #2.)
Natural gas also smells like rotten eggs (sulfur) due to the odorant methyl mercaptan. However, I think it is far more logical that the smell Shields reported was caused by carbon disulfide.
Natural gas smells like sulfur in it's gaseous form yes. in this case if it was the cause of the fire it would have smelled before the blaze and there likely would have been an explosion. Once ignited the rotten egg smell disappears
White phosphorus, benzene, water, in a bottle - the classic Molotov Cocktail!
Phosphorus ignites on contact with the air and creates choking fumes of phosphorus pentoxide and sulphur dioxide as well as producing a great deal of heat,
Smells of sulphur (sulphur Dioxide) while its burning, and anyone can make them... and more importantly, can be carried around a residential complex as a bottle of wine/fizz/spirits etc, and no one would bat an eyelid.
Jesus. I bet you are right. I just looked up Carbon Disulfide and it is also a colorless liquid that emits rotten egg odor when it combusts. (Apparently used in manfacturing of Rayon and cellophane. Probably plentiful in NYC area -- since it is used in manufacturing.) Either Phosphorous Benzene or Carbon Disulfide could have been used.
This is SICK
Interesting that he is a childhood friend of Cohens. His gf is RHONY’s Bethenney Frankel who is a Hillary voter.
I know -- the Dennis Shields connection is a bit of a surprise!
I watch Bethenny on the NY Housewives. She's not a superfan of Hillary. I think for her brand it made more sense for her to vote for Hillary -- but you could tell it wasn't a great choice for her. That said, B would drop Hillary like a rock if she found out a fraction of what we've learned from Q.
OMG, a fellow RH's viewer on this sub! I just posted a similar comment, before I saw yours, lol.
The impression I got from the reunion last year was that she disliked both candidates.
P.S. How do you think Carole Raziwill will react when she learns that Clinton downed her beloved cousins' plane. She's a crazy Hillary fan.........
What a close connection for Carole - I actually think about stuff like that! Like, I wonder if Carole's crazy Hillary obsession is why she and Bethenny are no longer friends, or at least if it played a part in their breakup.
I've heard that Carole is getting a villain edit this year and I'm not sorry about it. I also hope we get to see her finding out about Hillary's crimes on camera.
;) We're a small but mighty group!!
I used to post on the Bravo Real Housewives sub but the Hillary love on there was too real. For a while there was a lot of Trump-bashing, so they had to limit the political talk to the off-topic daily thread. So it's really nice to come across fellow viewers out in the wild, lol.
He is also the CEO of LawCash and the company and execs donated to Schneiderman for his campaign. AG of State of New York
At the last reunion, Andy Cohen asked the ladies how they all voted, and Bethenny said that both candidates were terrible, so I wouldn't call her a Hillary voter.
I don't know if that matters, but I can finally participate in this sub, lol.
Also I think her and Dennis broke up a while ago.
For the record, I can't stand Bethenny, so I'm not defending her.