Page 10 - Accelerants News Today

Similarities his location was with the fires that occurred. >> reporter: now police have reportedly given this person of interest a nickname, meat loaf segal because he appears to be a singer meat loaf and actress sieve stren segal. jenna: first time i heard that. that will stick. tell us about the fireses have there been any casual at thises or injuries because of the fires that have been set? >> reporter: unbelievely no. many fires were set in cars or under the engine block and again no fatali...

Up and then looking at what similarities his location was with the fires that occurred. >> reporter: now police have reportedly given this person of interest a nickname, meat loaf segal because he appears to be a singer meat loaf and actress sieve stren segal. jenna: first time i heard that. that will stick. tell us about the fireses have there been any casual at thises or injuries because of the fires that have been set? >> reporter: unbelievely no. many fires were set in cars or under the engi...

Going, checking to see that his stories match up, and then looking at what similarities his location was with the fires that occurred. >> reporter: now, many of those fires started inside of automobiles or under the engine block then spread to the garage and apartments. my lack lousily, no -- miraculously, no fatalities or injuries so far. they have not provided the ignition source or the type of accelerants that are used. detectives dont want to prompt the arsonist to change tactics. police are...

Near and what our potsture is in the region going forward is a big strategic questions for the next administration to work out. but i think that what is important here is to realize that iraq itself faces critical challenges and the way those town out are important for u.s. national security, the challenges are terrorist groups, iran, for example, and, just the cohesion of iraq itself, and most military analysts and our own generals in the field tell you that iraq simply is not up to the challen...

Report to district attorney ori white. they conclude thhe a single item of psical evidence in this case which supports a finding of arson." >> the willis case is based solely on old wives tales that were disproved and should have been known by everybody in the industry. an amateur could have taken this case who had in his mind a one-page list of old wives tales, could have taken a checklist on the willis fire and said no, thats caused by flashover. no, thats caused by a flashover. accelerants ca...

>> flashover produces patterns that cannot be discerned from those produced by liquid accelerants except that flashover does a better job than a liquid accelerant does. >> people have said, oh, the whole house caught fire from one end to the other in under five minutes. somebody must have poured gasoline. its not true. you flash over one room and very quickly your house is involved. >> flashover could also explain the furniture being consumed. >> following a post flashover fire, what you expect ...

Drawing attention to this great injustice with their new documentary "incendiary." >> he thought because the glass in the windows had been fractured in a fine spider web pattern, that this is something that only accelerants down and natural fires dont because of the rapid heating of the glass. we put on demonstrations of this, put a glass pane across a couple bricks, put a bun son burner under it and turned it on. what happens is the glass crackses. and then we take the hot glass and throw a lit...

Critics blame the fire on the fbis tear gas. but an independent special counsel ultimately found david koresh ordered the fire set with accelerants. >> i blame david koresh, but because i believe hes to blame does not mean we, the fbi, did everything right or we did not make mistakes, because we certainly did. >> reporter: you believe patience would have provided many more survivors? >> no question in my mind. i believe a successful negotiation is not getting everyone out alive. its getting ever...

Fbis tear gas. but an independent special counsel ultimately found david koresh ordered the fire set with accelerants. >> i blame david koresh, but because i believe hes to blame does not mean we, the fbi, did everything right or we did not make mistakes, because we certainly did. >> reporter: you believe patience would have provided many more survivors? >> no question in my mind. i believe a successful negotiation is not getting everyone out alive. its getting everyone out alive that we can. in...

Critics blame the fire on the fbis tear gas. but an independent special counsel ultimately found david koresh ordered the fire set with accelerants. >> i blame david koresh, but because i believe hes to blame does not mean we, the fbi, did everything right or we did not make mistakes, because we certainly did. >> reporter: you believe patience would have provided many more survivors? >> no question in my mind. i believe a successful negotiation is not getting everyone out alive. its getting ever...