Car fire cause, victim identified
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The victim of last week’s car fire near Gordonsville has been identified as 64-year-old Gordonsville resident Maurice Jean Clos Versailles, according to a press release today from Albemarle County. On Thursday, December 11, Clos Versailles was in a GMC Yukon carrying a cylinder of liquid petroleum gas– a highly flammable combination of propane and butane that can be used for cooking and heating– when a nearby resident heard an explosion and called 911. County fire investigators discovered evidence of a vapor explosion and fire in the destroyed Yukon and believe the cause of the inferno to be accidental. The medical examiner’s office in Richmond has ruled Clos Versailles died of “thermal inhalation burns.”
This news takes my feelings to a whole new level. I never knew how dangerous petroleum gas tanks can be! Just last week I picked one up from the store and brought it home for a barbecue. Now knowing about this, I thank God that nothing happened to me and I leave my deepest sympathy with the remaining family members.
Maurice était un homme exceptionnel, travailleur comme je n’ai jamais vu ça et avec un très grand coeur.
Reposes en paix Maurice.
Sabine de Toulouse, ton ancienne fille au pair, que tu as considéré comme quelqu’un de ta famille pendant ces quelques mois passés parmi vous, je ne t’oublierai jamais.