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    The ATF National Response Team was activated to assist in the investigation of a large commercial fire that occurred in downtown Spruce Pine, North Carolina. At least two businesses were destroyed in the fire, with early damage estimates exceeding $1 million. The Response Team brings expertise and specialized equipment to investigate major fire and explosives incidents and will work with local law enforcement to determine the origin and cause of the fire. This is the 19th activation of the Response Team in fiscal year 2007.

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    The ATF National Response Team was activated to assist in the investigation of a large commercial fire that occurred in downtown Spruce Pine, North Carolina. At least two businesses were destroyed in the fire, with early damage estimates exceeding $1 million. The Response Team brings expertise and specialized equipment to investigate major fire and explosives incidents and will work with local law enforcement to determine the origin and cause of the fire. This is the 19th activation of the Response Team in fiscal year 2007.

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    The ATF National Response Team was activated to assist in the investigation of a large commercial fire that occurred in downtown Spruce Pine, North Carolina. At least two businesses were destroyed in the fire, with early damage estimates exceeding $1 million. The Response Team brings expertise and specialized equipment to investigate major fire and explosives incidents and will work with local law enforcement to determine the origin and cause of the fire. This is the 19th activation of the Response Team in fiscal year 2007.

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    Contact: ATF PIO Earl Woodham For Immediate Release

    Cell: 704-591-5005 Aug. 7, 2007

    ATF NATIONAL RESPONSE TEAM ACTIVATED TO SPRUCE PINE

    SPRUCE PINE, N.C. – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and


    Explosives (ATF) National Response Team, along with ATF special agents from the
    Charlotte Field Division, have entered the investigation of a large commercial fire that
    occurred Saturday, Aug. 4, in the downtown area of Spruce Pine. The NRT responded at
    the request of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.

    Carl Vasilko, special agent in charge of the NRT response, said that at least two
    of the downtown businesses located in the Spruce Pine center city area were destroyed
    and early estimates of damages are in excess of $ 1 million.

    The NRT has brought definitive expertise and an array of state-of-the-art


    equipment to the investigation of major fire and explosives incidents since 1978. Four
    regional components, organized geographically to cover the United States, comprise the
    NRT. The team can respond within 24 hours to assist state and local law enforcement or
    fire service personnel in onsite investigations.

    The responding NRT component normally has 13-18 members, including veteran
    special agents who have post-blast and fire origin-and-cause expertise; forensic chemists;
    explosives enforcement officers; fire protection engineers; accelerant detection canines;
    explosives detection canines; and intelligence, computer forensic and audit support. A
    fleet of fully equipped response vehicles strategically located throughout the United
    States provides logistical support.

    ATF’s partnership with federal, state and local officers is vital to the most
    effective processing efforts at an explosives or fire scene. The NRT capitalizes on that by
    working alongside its partners in reconstructing the scene, identifying the seat of the blast
    or the origin of the fire, conducting interviews and sifting through debris to obtain
    evidence related to the explosion or fire.

    In addition to investigating hundreds of large fire and explosives scenes, the NRT
    trucks were deployed for the 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon; the Olympics and

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    other major sporting events in the United States; presidential inaugurations and the
    national political conventions; and major international conferences.

    This is the 19th NRT activation in fiscal 2007 and the 637th since the program
    began in 1978. Other agencies involved in the investigation are the North Carolina State
    Bureau of Investigation, and the Spruce Pine Police and Fire Departments

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