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Show Shack burns, arson or just another fire? - a it arson or not? A no day seminar involving local r.'.ers and law enforcement officers f.'ii the techniques used to detect if- -a fire is arson and when it is not. H'nBorg. Chief .Arson Investigator, Brent Halladay. .Arson Investigator, rJi the State Fire Marshal's office, -sr-jcted the participants how to deterge deter-ge whether or not a blaze is inten-::-y set. f -I'f' t0 look for- according to Borg, '-' patterns, scorching, explosions, traces of flammable material. -'' especially flame patterns on '1 said an unintentional fire will -y not burn with the intensity of an fire. Fire needs oxygen, and if j:s are closed, the fire w ill use up vaUable oxygen and then die down. l5.?i(l e lacker a fire can burn - '31 walls or the ceiling the quicker -g'Jt the house. Ji'!?. aid r'res. under the right cir-- cir-- -ances. can move incredibly quick ""' hi 3 hous- Especially bad, Borg J.". trailer houses and mobile C. n 311 unintentional fire, under f1 conditions, can burn a mobile -" e-tihe ground in three minutes-J minutes-J ruse the name can go through .ails or ceiling very quickly, thus Jng lhe fire with all the oxygen it arson fire can collapse a w ood " ouse almost as little time as - . s - a i "- ""' T. " ' f ' - '"7" .--" -. AN OLD SHED is intentionally set on fire by investigators in-vestigators from the State Fire Marshal's office. The fire was an arson simulation, which was part a mobile home, according to Borg. If the arsonist knows what he is doing, by allowing enough oxygen to the fire, a house can actually collapse in three to four minutes, he said. However, Borg added, in such a situation, where of an arson training seminar attended by local fire and law enforcement agencies. Participants in the class learned how to determine whether a fire was the result of arson or not. everything is right, it is easy to determine deter-mine the blaze was man-caused. Borg said many of the participants in the two-day seminar told him they now realize fires they have investigated in the past were arson, but didn't know w hat to look for at the time. This course was intended in-tended to make officials more prepared to determine when a fire is a case of arson. Continue on Page 2 Arson... ; Continued from Page 1 As practical experience, amtu. fire was arranged in an abandon near Jensen. A table was hi; chair and a mattress brought in: demonstration. Two gallonsoft was used to start the fire, andtfe Fire Department was there tofc flame. The 22 participants in the s-were s-were split up into groups, and; fire was out, they investigated to-what to-what started the fire andlw started. A scenario was acted-Borg acted-Borg and Halladay, and Ernest i local associate arson investigate: State Fire Marshal. The scenari ed the property owner, a rente surance agent, plus the firen out the fire. By examining the dec-questioning dec-questioning the people in f; the teams were to determined not the fire was arson. After all teams had gonefe-procedure, gonefe-procedure, Borg and Hallada) e-the e-the results of their findings; ed to each group what they weU as things they failed to tatt-sideration tatt-sideration in making their |