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Multi-Million-Dollar Homes Burned Down Outside Seattle

HeadlineMar 04, 2008

And in Washington state, three unfinished multi-million-dollar homes burned down on Monday in the Seattle suburb of Woodinville. A sign left at the scene of the fire indicated it was set by members of the Earth Liberation Front. All of the homes were unoccupied. No one was injured in the blaze that caused an estimated $7 million in damage. The homes were marketed as being located on a Street of Dreams. Some environmentalists had opposed the new luxury development because of its close proximity to the Bear Creek, which is home to endangered Chinook salmon. The fire occurred while a thirty-two-year-old violin teacher named Briana Waters is on trial in Tacoma, Washington. Waters has been charged with acting as a lookout during a fire set at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001.

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