Arson/Investigation
The FireRescue1 Arson/Investigation resources page features news about confirmed and suspected arson as well as information on the latest fire investigation methodologies to help fire investigators and other personnel identify fire causes.
Gary Stephen Maynard admitted to setting fires behind firefighters fighting the Dixie Fire and setting other wildfires
Contractor in Boise hangar collapse that killed three had multiple safety violations in the last 10 years
The Clark County apartment site fire burned for five days before being extinguished
The expert testifying for the prosecution said he found no defects with the stove and that it had been left on
The 65-year-old was badly burned in a fire that appeared to be started by an arson
The church was built in 1865 and is planned to be rebuilt
No firefighter injuries were reported at the early-morning fire
After the Giants won the World Series, thousands of fans took to the street, some setting fires and vandalizing
Chief Rob Van Wormer lost consciousness while conducting an investigation
The town of 27 residents was completely destroyed by the October fire
Police sources believe the fire that killed the 1-month old was set to cover up the murder of her mother who was found stabbed
Cory Praschyk will spend up to two years in jail for setting the blazes
An additional 60 people were injured, many too frail or weak to escape the blaze
The woman who has burns on half her body said three men made racial slurs and doused her with a flammable liquid
Two naked men went on a rampage including torching their rented home before one was shot dead by police
A large machine shed-like building was also destroyed
Desmond John Moses is believed to have died in the blaze he set
Fire officials say the blaze caused up to $600,000 in damage
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office will not provide more details on why they have arrested the owner of a furniture store where the two firefighters died
The two Okla. firefighters allegedly started a brush of fires last summer
Three men were arrested in what appears to have started as a robbery and ended up as arson to hide multiple murders
Investigators are still piecing facts together, but do not believe the five died in the fire
Fire chief: ‘Firefighters arrived to find harrowing scenes and did everything they could to save the family’
All of the fires were reported within an hour of each other and flammable liquids were poured at each scene
The 45-year-old firefighter was trapped in her burning truck and suffered burns over 60 percent of her body
Investigators say the fires were started with gasoline and destroyed trucks and SUVs
The summer-long campaign focused on the cost to taxpayers
The former volunteer firefighter was sentenced to more than eight years in prison
Three suspicious fires have damaged and destroyed three buildings that were in the process of being repaired from a previous flood
Investigators are still looking for the cause of a ferocious fire that ate through a home and sent a firefighter plunging through the floor
2 youths were seen leaving the area where the fire began
No firefighter injuries were reported in a suspicious apartment fire where firefighters saved dogs, cats and birds
Carpet-fiber samples from arson investigation part of troubling evidence that may have led to wrongful conviction