Arson Theory

On Sunday, February 5th, 2012, at approximately 6:30 pm, I and my forensic team were dispatched to an arson fire scene at 8119 189th Street Court East in Graham, Washington. Upon arrival, I entered the rental home of Josh Powell which was entirely burned and damaged. As I walked through the residence, I found out the point of origin was from near the living room as I and my investigators found one empty gasoline can. The capacity limit was five gallons. It is to my belief that Josh Powell saturated his rental house with gasoline.

The spectators played a major role here. To begin with, unidentified person shouted “Do it!” persuading the deceased to set fire. Next, another unidentified spectator threw a cigarette lighter at the deceased’s foot, becoming the tool of igniting the gasoline. Without the lighter, the self killing would not have been achieved.

I, myself, can think of many possibilities of what caused the fire. One possibilities could have been that he was making something on the stove and didn’t notice and/or didn’t smell something weird. Another possibility is that the smoke detector

If you didn’t know Arson is a crime of intentionally, deliberately and maliciously setting fire to buildings, wildland areas, abandoned homes, vehicles, people, cell phones, candy wrappers, desks, lace, beds, watches, deodorant, rugs, zippers, tomatoes, food, signs, street lights, cameras, glasses, plates, toothpaste, lotion, blouses, cork, packing peanuts, thermometer, balloon, scotch tape, rubber ducks, springs, pens, mp3 players, coasters, mouse pads, apples, shampoo, table, sticky notes, broccoli, mop, soy sauce packet, playing card, clamp, beef, candle, 2 Pairs of jeans, Sport shorts, Shorts, Skiing pants, Shirts, T-shirts, Tank top, Sweaters, Suit, Winter sweater, Jackets, Cap, Beanie, Shoes (running-, converse-, leather- and winter boots), Scarf, pair of flip flops, pair of gloves, set of socks, set of boxers, Belt, face wash, remote, sofas, Guitars, Guitar Amp, Guitar Cables, Trumpet, Trumpet mute cup, Trumpet mic, pool stick, Embroidered

The arson investigator who belived this was General Hurst and he stated that, “ Flashovers had left natural patterns on the floor that all post flashover fires tend to leave behind, and they had been misidentified as pour patterns. And thus the fire was labeled as arson.” Hurst was one of the only people who believed the fire was not arson. Hurst had the new knowledge of how arson worked and how to properly detect arson unlike the first investigators. Generally those who investigated arson were just firefighters with little to no training.

State Statue Analysis 1. Statute: The State Statute under section §321.5 reads “any individual who maliciously and willfully burns the dwelling home of another person is punished by a period of incarceration, which does not exceed five years in imprisonment and/or a fine not exceeding $5,000 (Goodrich, 2003, p. 94). 2. Facts: It is evident that the police are asked to come Harry’s property to ascertain if it is a case of trespass. As the police arrive at the scene, the house of Harry’s is being consumed by fire, and Ann is seen on the property carrying a can containing gasoline.

In the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, Momma, Kenny the protagonist's mother, catches her son, Byron playing with matches. This makes Momma very angry because 1) playing with fire is very dangers, 2) this is not the first time she has caught him doing this and 3) fire had, had a significant impact on her childhood because when she was younger her house caught fire and for two years her and her brothers clothes smelled like smoke. Because Momma has experience with fire she knows that it can be dangerous and does not want her son to be striking matches and setting things on fire for fun considering that this could cause serious issues like their house like momma’s catching on fire burning himself or others and

The city also didn’t have fire alarms in almost every building, just the ones that could afford it. Even some schools didn’t have a fire alarm. The fire could have been able to be prevented by using other materials. Some buildings that weren't made out of wood, still caught fire.

There is a debate about using prescribed fires. Prescribed fires are fires that help reduce the catastrophic damage that wildfire creates. prescribed fires work most of the time, but they can be faulty at some points. That's why some people don't agree with using prescribed fires. Even though they sometimes don't work, they can be really helpful when they do work.

Barn Burning is a modern story that shows a theme, plot, characters and uses narrative techniques. The title of the story, “Barn Burning,” is used to identify the main method carried out by the father in the story, Abner to get revenge on the people he grew angry with for their treatment of black people in the south. The story does not give a number of the barns Abner had burned, but Sarty said they had moved a lot of different times indicating the moves were due to Abner destroying the property of others. Abner seemed to have a sickness or craving for burning property; this seemed his way of regaining his dignity or self-respect after feeling he was wronged by the evil, hate, and racism of southern society. Abner kept burning fuel handy and had containers to refill when it was time to burn another barn and caused destruction, but when it was time to keep his family warm in the cold outdoors, he would only build small fires.

In Cleveland, Ohio there was a fire that occurred on June 22, 1969, around 12pm on the Cuyahoga river. People called it the “burning river”. The river caught on fire because there were floating pieces of debris that was slicked with oil. The debris ignited by sparks that came from a train that was passing over the river. The reason it happened is from years of people dumping pollution into the river.

The emergency response was ineffective because “Others waited at the windows for the rescue workers only to discover that the firefighters' ladders were several stories too short and the water from the hoses could not reach the top floors”. Because of the poorly enforced law of doors must be unlocked in the workplace, many died. Americans knew this carelessness should never happen again; therefore, people wanted change. During the trial of the Triangle Fire a witness Samuel Bernstein said, “I was the last one there and I seen the flames was coming up through the roof on the Greene St. and uptown side.

Another result of the fire was the creation of the American Society of Safety Engineers. Which was Designed for all buildings to fall under the code to make them safer? The American Society of Safety Engineers did just that, and there has not been any other building tragedy fire not caused by arson as severe as the shirtwaist fire. I will now like to return to the original question.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a devastating fire that killed 146 girls in New York City (Leap for Life, Leap for Death). At this time, citizens of New York were furious and demanded that the government do something to prevent future tragedies. The government responded and the reforms that the government made, it changed the future of New York industry. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, one of history’s deadliest fires, came as a result of outrageously unsafe working conditions, led to a high death toll and injury total, but, ultimately resulted in reforms that helped safeguard future factory workers.

Escape fire is defined as a fire intentionally set to provide protection against a larger uncontrolled fire (Heineman & Fromke, 2012). This documentary maintains that in order to