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>> reporter: firefighters able to hold the fire in montebello to a little more than 200 acres. a federal fire official tells me they have never seen so many simultaneous and spread-out fires since 2007. in the west triple-digit temperatures. wind. the ravages of drought. the perfect firestorm. more than 25,000 firefighters now battling blazes in 10 states. the national fire preparedness level at 5, the highest. almost two dozen fires scorching washington state alone. resident is praised crews. >> they came quick. hot and heavy. the winds kicked up and it was unstoppable. >> reporter: other res...

Gathering strength. at two minutes, it would be moving across the ceiling. at four minutes, temperatures and gas levels in the room would be fatal. at 5 1/2 minutes, the fire reaches flashover and the window blows out. this was consistent with paul camiolo's version of events. >> matches up with everything that paul camiolo was saying and with other objective evidence that he has nothing to do with. >> but important questions remained. if the fire was an accident, why was gasoline found on the living room floor? nothing fits, huh? not surprising... ...with that bloated belly. you got gas. i ca...

Committing these crimes and then living a life crime-free. it doesn't matter. he's a thief. he's a rapist and he's a murderer. he just got old. that's all there is to it. >> all the scientific, forensic evidence, we're going to see a lot more cold cases being solved based on the advancements in technology. in the aftermath of a fatal fire, one question remained. was it an accident or was it arson? it took the physics of a burning cigarette, the chemical composition of a flame, and a computer-simulated fire to determine how the fire started and who was responsible. for 25 years, ed and rosa...

Gasoline found on the wood floors in the living room, but paul's defense team was suspicious of this finding. >> they took samples of the carpeting, the carpet padding, and some newspaper, and there was no gasoline in any of those samples. it was only in the hardwood floor. and it was just inconceivable. how can you pour gasoline in a family room and not get the gas on those other items if that was going to be the cause of the fire? >> so the defense team hired john lentini, a nationally recognized fire expert, to find out what happened. lentini retested the samples of hardwood floor using ato...

Fire. >> there was money there in the form of insurance money. and that in and of itself is a powerful motive. >> i believe he received about $200,000 in insurance benefits. >> a second motive that some of the investigators believed existed was that paul camiolo was tired of caring for his infirmed parents. >> fire investigators searched through the rubble and found something very suspicious. >> in the center of the room there was a pattern that looked like perhaps it might have been associated with a liquid pour, what they refer to, when someone may have poured an accelerant. >> to see if an ...