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What is the pattern in which fire burns?
Heat, fuel, oxygen
What are the elements to sustain combustion?
Insurance fraud
What is the most common reason for arson crimes?
Fire Investigator Role
What is collect evidence and identify accelerants?
What is any compound consisting of only carbon and hydrogen?
Point of Origin
1st degree arson
What is the burning of an occupied structure?
What is a tool used to detect accelerants?
Accelerant
What is a material used to start or sustain a fire?
Pour Pattern
What is evidence of use of an accelerant?
2nd degree arson
What is the burning of an unoccupied structure?
Ignition
What is when heat, oxygen, and fuel source combine in a chemical reaction?
Exothermic Reaction
What is a reaction that gives off heat or energy?
Sealable Can
What is used to collect and store accelerant evidence?
3rd degree arson
What is the burning of an abandoned building?
Ventilation
What is a pump of fresh oxygen to fuel a fire?
Oxidation
Combustion
What is when a rapid combination of oxygen and other substances combine, producing heat and light?
Who is the 1984 serial arsonist from California?
Pyrolysis
What is when heat converts solids into fuel gases?