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To 1200 degrees fahrenheit, its got enough energy to ignite everything below it. every exposed surface catches on fire. >> the aftermath of a fire like this will often leave behind irregular burn patterns on the floor of a structure, much like the ones investigators found in the willis fire. >> you will find patterns in the room that look like you would imagine a floor and lower walls would look if they had been exposed to the fire from a liquid accelerant such as gasoline which had been poured....

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 to see is tables, chairs, couches, all of it reduced to charcoal. it is very common for fire investigators to work on the premise that the fire...

Virginia. what are they likely to send there? and -- what kinds of testing will they do on it? >> well, all of the material that was taken to the bomb range, for example, would be gathered back up, the -- up to the destroyed portions of those bombs, canisters, things of that nature. would be taken to the lab and -- they will do analysis there and-to-determine what types of powder weroused, what type of explosives were used. the incendiary materials that theres liquid accelerant, things like that...

Evidence is in there may have clues that would lead investigators to, perhaps a n on site location where they would be secured. >> theres so much more in there. i understand that there are about some 30 canisters of possibly explosives powder looks being like black 16 inch softballs some were rubber coating and other containers with liquid accelerant and black powder one of the officers there on the ground described as, if you had this, it looks like guinness poured into a half and half, black a...

the victims. heartbreaking stories from their families are hitting home with all of us. well share some of those stories throughout the morning. lets get right to our poppy harleararlo harlow, though. she is at holmes apartment, at that apartment complex for us this morning. poppy, what is the activity taking place there this hour? >> reporter: good morning, randi. its really picking up. what you see behind me, if you can make out those busted windows on the third floor of that complex...

welcome back, everyone, to aurora, colorado. im randi kaye. let me get you caught up now on the latest details from here in aurora. we are learning more about the victims this morning. a few names have trickled out in the last few minutes, in fact. but coming up at 10:00 a.m., we expect police to release the full list of victims in this shooting. here at the theater, people have gathered to remember those. there was a vigil last night. much of their makeshift memorial is still here. of...

>> 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 ...

Minutes, this fire reaches temperatures so hot that it begins to burn down. >> radiation goes in all directions. including down. and when the temperature of that hot gas layer gets to about 1100 to 1200 degrees fahrenheit, its got enough energy to ignite everything below it. every exposed surface catches on fire. >> the aftermath of a fire like this will often leave behind irregular burn patterns on the floor of a structure, much like the ones investigators found in the willis fire. >> you will ...