NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT FIRE INVESTIGATIONS

This “guideline” of burning length had been the resource for many misconceptions connected to pinpointing if a fire was incendiary and fell into disrepute within the mid-1990’s. In the 1st edition of NFPA (1992) the investigator was cautioned, “that no certain time of burning may be determined centered only upon depth of char”. Schroeder