In 1969 the Hoffman Hotel in Bedford burnt.
Fireman responded and worked for a long time to save it.
Just as they would start gaining on it, it would flare up. Bad.
One of them somehow got ahead of the fire to scout things out,
And found bags of gas sitting in the halls.
They backed out and let it burn.
It was owned by the Mayor and his wife, highly leveraged and
there were organized crime ties.
A federal task force got involved as part of an investigation to
big arson cases and the mob.
Within a couple years, numerous local bigwigs including a bank president
were all found dead. Mostly suicides.
Putting gas in bags is obviously a bad idea!