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The average fireman, that's their job.
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For a pyromaniac, it's their life. He is
consumed by it.
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A guy like that has such a mass, such a
facade of normality, that it's almost
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impossible to detect something is wrong.
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The fact that he seems to set all his
fires in crowded places during the day
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where people could potentially die is
important.
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much, much more dramatic, and it's much
more stimulating, much more eroticized
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for the pyromaniac.
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Welcome to Very Scary People.
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I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
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On October 10th, 1984, flames swept
through a crowded store in California,
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trapping some employees and shoppers
inside.
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There was panic and confusion, and not
everyone escaped in time.
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Investigators combed through the debris
to try to establish the cause.
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Was this an accident or arson?
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More mysterious fires followed, and a
pattern emerged.
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There was an arsonist on the loose.
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Now the hunt was on. This is part one of
The Fire Starter.
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Ole's Home Center in South Pasadena was
big and had pretty much anything you
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could think of from cheap tools to
Christmas lights.
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It was actually in a building that had
once housed a grocery store and a drug
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store.
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They cut two holes in the wall between
the two stores and put a couple of roll
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-up doors in there so that people can go
in between, and those things will drop
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down as soon as there's a fire.
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The roll -up doors would stop the fire
from spreading from one side of the
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to the other.
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On October 10, 1984, there were dozens
of people in the Ole's hardware store,
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among them employees and shoppers.
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I was 19 and just started working full
-time.
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I could have never imagined that
evening. It would have totally changed
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The store was pretty quiet that evening
because it was the game two of the World
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Series.
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Billionaire to deal. They live in the
neighborhood, and they're babysitting
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their grandson, Matthew Troy.
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And decide that, hey, you know, it's a
nice sort of warm night.
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Let's go down to Oli's and do some
shopping.
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Of course, little Matthew isn't really
having it, doesn't want to be in the
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cart. And they say, oh, don't worry.
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We'll get you some ice cream. We'll take
you to Baskin -Robbins.
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Ada and Matthew, grandmother and
grandson, are perusing aisles in the
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department. And Billy is up in the tools
section, which is in a completely other
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part of the store.
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All of a sudden I heard somebody
yelling, hey, we need to clear the
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need to get out of the store.
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I looked over and noticed that there was
a column of smoke.
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I went back over to the hardware
department all the way in the back of
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and saw a couple of customers, told
them, hey, we need to leave the store
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now.
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Jim Obdom encounters Ada and Matthew in
one of the aisles.
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And there was a lady with her grandchild
in the very last row of the department
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that was looking at the merchandise.
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And I told her that we needed to leave
the store, that there was an emergency.
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And he asked her to follow him, and he
began walking towards the closest fire
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door to them.
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And I told her, take your grandson out
of the cart, because we need to move
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quickly out of the store.
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As we were walking down the main aisle,
I looked over to the right and saw that
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that pillar of smoke was not a pillar of
smoke anymore.
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It was a wall of flame.
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As he walked towards that fire door, the
fire door suddenly came down.
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I was trapped because two roll of doors
closed on me, blocking my way from one
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side of the door to the other building.
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It traps them in this building.
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that a raging blaze is just about to
consume.
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And as I see the flames on one side of
me, all of a sudden the light flickered
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and turned off, and everything turned
black, and it was just an orange glow.
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You have nothing on your mind but sheer
panic.
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He's hoping he can save this grandmother
and her grandbaby, but he also knows
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he's got to get out of there.
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I went so fast that I don't even
remember seeing the lady with her
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there. I lost her.
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It was pitch black in the store, and I
couldn't see anything really. So at that
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point in time, I just prayed and said,
you know, Lord, get me out of here.
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It was just totally chaos.
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And I was trying to figure out where to
go from here.
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I headed toward the back wall.
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and built my way along the aisle in the
dark.
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It just seemed incredibly hot.
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He makes his way through the smoke
toward the one emergency door that he
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that leads out to the back of the
hardware store.
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As I was working my way down the back
aisle toward the exit, it was just the
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intense heat. It was extreme.
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He had to shield his head and body with
his arms from the fire as it became so
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intense.
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And it just seemed like forever to get
to those emergency exit doors.
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So I felt like giving up.
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But then here are the doors.
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I was like, I'm going to be the last one
out of these doors.
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And when he gets outside and turns
around and looks at where he came from,
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building is engulfed in flames.
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I remember seeing smoke coming out of
those doors, and it was just black.
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I knew that there would be people that
perished in the fire.
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In less than five minutes, this fire
went from a small fire to a fully
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12 ,000 -square -foot building.
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I had first and second -degree burns on
my arm and also on my ear, on my
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forehead and face.
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Outside the store, the crowd is
gathering, and among the spectators is
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Deal, and he's asking everybody, have
you seen my wife, have you seen my
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grandson? Do you know where they might
be?
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And these emotions are playing out in
the parking lot of this hardware store
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that is absolutely engulfed in this
fire.
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The captain is trying to direct his
rookie firefighters into this massive
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John Orr shows up. He was the fire
investigator for the city of Glendale.
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fire investigative community all knew
John Orr very well, and he was a well
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-respected investigator.
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And he seemed to have a great deal of
knowledge about fire that many other
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people didn't have.
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And he takes a bunch of pictures of the
firefighters and the fire.
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It was putting up quite a bit of smoke.
I started taking photographs of the
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always fire.
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Because it's a good tactic to take
pictures of the crowd.
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If a fire ever turns out to be arson,
then it's a good idea to have some crowd
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shots.
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John was known for telling all these
investigators that the bug is always in
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crowd.
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So you should video it so you can figure
out whether somebody's showing up at a
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bunch of your fires, and then you'll
know that that person is the arsonist.
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I found in my experience as an arson
investigator, their trait of coming back
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the scene of the crime is almost
universal.
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It seems that the motivations are to see
the damage that's done or being around
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the excitement of what's going on and
being the only one that knows what
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actually happened.
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I heard that there was nobody else that
made it out of the store.
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The Ole's Home Center fire started at 8
.04 p .m. on the night of October 10,
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1984.
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First arriving units found that fire was
fully involved inside the west side of
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the Ole store.
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They saw smoke and fire beginning to
come out of all of the open doors and
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in the location, and within minutes it
was through the roof.
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People are watching, people who've been
evacuated from the store, people who
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worked in the store.
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I was very much concerned for my co
-workers.
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inside will be homicide victims.
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We came back the next morning, and by
then the L .A. County Sheriff's
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had taken over the entire scene, so we
were excluded as investigators on that
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case.
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The investigation of the Ole's Home
Center fire was led by...
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Arson
Homicide Division, they couldn't figure
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out what happened because they couldn't
decide whether or not it was electrical
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fire. The fire was what we call
undetermined, and it really became a
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recovery effort fairly early on.
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In all, there's four people that died in
this Holy Fire.
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Working in the store was Carolyn Krause.
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People remember her leading people out
of the store when this fire took place.
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She was a very sweet young lady who got
along really well.
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Jimmy Satina was a high school kid.
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And he was like an all -American
athlete.
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He was being scouted by the Chicago
Cubs. He had a bright future.
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Whenever you saw him, he always had a
smile on his face, never in a bad mood.
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He led people to safety and ultimately
perished.
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It was very saddening to hear that.
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Among the victims were Ada Diehl and
Matthew Treidel.
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We were called last night and told he
was trapped in there. He was dead.
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That's all we know.
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They were found about 20 feet from the
door.
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My grandbaby, he would have been three
in January.
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He'd be with his other grandmother.
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They were in the store shopping with her
husband, his grandfather.
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She decided to go back for one more
thing.
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She took the baby with her, and I'm sure
she did everything she could for him.
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It was the next day that I found out
that the lady and her grandchild passed
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away in the fire.
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All of the victims who died in this fire
died from smoke inhalation, and that is
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typically what happens in a fire.
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People very rarely burn to death in
fires.
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Most of the time it's the smoke that
kills them because they're not breathing
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enough oxygen. Then the fire envelops
them.
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John Orr knew very well the sister of
one of the victims in the fire.
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And a couple of days after the fire, he
specifically told her that he was angry
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that they had not determined this was an
arson fire.
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And he tells her, this is an arson fire.
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And I'm bound and determined to get to
the bottom of why this fire happened and
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who set it.
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To investigate a fire scene, you start
from a distance and work your way into
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it, observing the scene itself and
what's presented by the scene,
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and then moving into the point or the
area of origin.
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The point of origin is where the fire
started.
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It was going to tell you the possible
cause of the fire. It could be an
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accidental fire due to electrical short.
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It could be careless smoking.
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It can be any number of things.
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A good fire investigator can track back
to the area where it originated and then
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try and ascertain what it was
specifically that started the fire,
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a shorted wire or a pour of gasoline
throughout a room starting.
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the entire room on fire.
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You have to assume it's going to be
accidental from the beginning until you
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eliminate all of the accidental causes.
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And in fact, John Orr went to the area
of origin and expressed his own opinions
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as to why this fire was arson and
different from what they said.
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One of the things that John was really
good at was reading a fire.
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He knew that arson fires start from the
ground up, and electrical fires always
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burn from the top down.
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The little bit of investigation I was
able to do after the fire was knocked
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showed the appearance of being a fire
starting low in the actual merchandise
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area. I had great respect for John. I
was impressed with his knowledge.
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There would be a number of fire scenes
where the investigators might be
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struggling. to try to find out where the
fire started, and he had a knack of
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showing up on scene and being able to
relatively quickly identify the point of
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origin of the fire where other
investigators had been stumped by until
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arrival.
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My dad was the hero of solving those
fires and figuring out where they
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and that they were arson. He was on the
news quite often. There's a lot of
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witness statements and a lot of possible
suspects that were in the area at the
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time of the fire.
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To anybody that worked at a fire
investigation at the time, his
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almost larger than life.
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Or tell them, there's something
happening here that you are missing, and
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ignore it.
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We were taken out of the investigation,
and it was taken over by the L .A.
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Sheriff's Department.
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Their method was basically bring in a D
-9 caterpillar, tore down a couple of
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walls.
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Once they began to drive heavy equipment
into the scene, You have now
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compromised your scene investigation
because you certainly can't figure out
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substance was used to start a fire if
you're driving heavy equipment inside a
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location before you finish your
investigation.
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If the sheriff would only have listened
to what he said, they would have
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realized there was something far more
sinister going on that night.
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The loss of life in a popular retail
store made headlines in Southern
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California. Four people died in this
fire, including a grandmother and her
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-year -old grandson.
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The other two were employees of Ole's
Home Center.
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The investigators, because they didn't
determine that it was an arson fire,
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didn't conduct any further
investigations.
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If they had done so, they may have
realized that two fires... on that very
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night, may have been connected to the
Ole's home center fire.
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The first one was about 15 minutes away
from the Ole South Pasadena location.
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John Orr was sent to investigate it.
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I was paged to assist the Pasadena
investigator at a supermarket fire.
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It was a fairly small fire in a potato
chip rack.
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It seemed more of a juvenile type thing,
a fun fire, or maybe a diversion.
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Set the fire and then go over and steal
liquor or expensive meats or gourmet
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foods while the entire focus of the
staff was to put the fire out. I just
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on some basic information and then
agreed to cruise around just to see what
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going on in case something broke out.
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The third fire that night was in another
grocery store, also in the potato chip
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rack.
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So I went down, drove a half mile, and
investigated the potato chip fire at
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location, and then came back up and
joined our group at the Ole's fire
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John Orr participated in all three of
those investigations during that night.
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Investigators quickly determined the two
potato chip fires were arson fires.
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But because the fires were in grocery
stores, investigators thought there was
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way they could be linked to the giant
blaze that happened at Ole.
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very quickly dismissed any thought that
there was some linkage between these
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three fires.
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If anybody had connected these three
fires, they would have realized that
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was something far more serious happening
that night and that there was an
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arsonist on the loose and he wasn't
going to be satisfied until his arson
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some real damage and he got some credit
for it.
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The only report that reflects that
connection is a report that John Orr
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He said that was the same person that
started all these fires.
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If you look at the pattern among
pyromaniacs, they often do it in a spree
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fashion, sometimes several fires in one
day. Because it's so stimulating for
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them, there's an inner drive to do it.
They want to recapture that feeling
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again.
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By setting fires in a spree -like
fashion, the arsonist can also cause the
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greatest amount of damage.
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There was a fire set in another Always
Home Center store in the city of
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Pasadena. That fire didn't really
ignite.
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And investigators go out, and they look
at it, and they even find the device.
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It was a device put in their
polyurethane foam that someone
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was still smoking.
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And that device was a cigarette that had
three matches attached to it by a
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rubber band, and it was placed inside a
piece of folded...
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the yellow -lined notepad paper.
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And the concept of that device would be
once the cigarette was ignited, you
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would have a time frame before it would
burn down enough to light the matches,
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and the matches would in turn light the
yellow -lined paper.
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And you'd need that amount of flame
before you'd be successful in igniting
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To John, it was clear that the same
arsonist who set the fire at Ole's
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in South Pasadena and killed... four
people, was telling investigators that,
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hey, you missed me.
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I'm going to do it again so that you see
it's an arson.
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Orr was very, very good at fire
detection. Why?
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That was his life.
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It was part of him. It was all
-consuming for him.
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Of course, his words fell on deaf ears.
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In the two years that followed, there
would be more than 6 ,500 fires in
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Southern California, causing more than
$20 million in damage. And nobody can
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exactly how many of these fires were
accidental or are.
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I was working at the Bakersfield Fire
Department as a fire investigator, and
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had a call come in. It was a craft mart
store out in the southwest part of
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Bakersfield.
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I traveled out there, and my cruiser was
met at the front door by an engine
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company captain that took me back to a
dry floral arrangement where the fire
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started. When I looked over in the vent,
I saw what I knew to be an incendiary
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device. It was three matches laying
close to a cigarette butt that had been
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severely burned and some rubber band
-looking material.
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Yellow line paper was laying in close
proximity to it. I carefully picked it
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with a pair of tweezers and put it into
an evidence bag.
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I had the manager bring me all of the
yellow line paper that he had in the
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store, and I compared it with the yellow
line paper that I had obtained from the
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bin, and none of it compared.
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So that made me believe that the paper
had to come from the outside.
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I was quite surprised whenever I found
that someone had intentionally done this
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due to the time of day.
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The store was busy, had employees in
there, had customers in there. I felt
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this was someone that was very bold.
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This person knew that he could walk in
there and do it without being detected.
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I had the opportunity to interview the
manager and other employees at the craft
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mart store to see if they'd seen anybody
suspicious or anything.
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They hadn't really seen anybody or paid
any attention to anyone that was in the
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store.
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I was still conducting my interviews
when I received another call of a fire,
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I thought, wow, this is a little
unusual. I'm having two large department
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with fires in them. What could possibly
be going on here?
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That's the second fire. There was one
lady that was working that had seen a
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come in. He was a real handsome cowboy,
and she was watching him as he walked
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around in the store. And he had
something in his hands, and apparently
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taken her eye off him for a while.
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Shortly after the cowboy left the store,
a fire broke out.
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I got a call from the two investigators
that had been to the...
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California Conference of Arson
Investigators up in Fresno.
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The firefighters, they talk about their
work hunting arsonists or how they are
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investigating different crimes.
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On the last days of the conference,
there's a series of fires that take
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All located along Highway 99, Fresno
being the first one, and that's where
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conference was, and they had Tulare, and
then we had Bakersfield, and then they
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seemed to stop.
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So now I'm thinking this could very well
be the person that attended the
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conference.
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Just a gut instinct I had, the fireman
was setting these fires. There's a
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fireman that attended that conference in
Fresno who's lighting fires on his way
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home to Bakersfield or Los Angeles.
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One of the fire investigators that was
there, he called me and says, hey, I'm
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going to tell you something that's going
to knock your socks off.
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Welcome back to Very Scary People.
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After a series of mysterious fires break
out near an arson investigator's
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convention, investigator Marvin Casey
has a hunch. He thinks someone in the
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firefighting community who attended the
conference set the fires.
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He has one critical piece of evidence, a
scrap of yellow -lined notepaper that
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was part of the incendiary device.
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He thinks this could be key to
identifying the fire starter.
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Marvin Casey sends it out to a lab.
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They dust it, and they find out that,
hey, there's a fingerprint on this piece
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of paper.
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Well, this is great. I mean, they've got
a fingerprint that they can link to a
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device that started an arson fire in
Bakersfield.
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They ran their print through the
National Crime Index. It's an index that
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put everybody's fingerprints in.
Everybody that's ever done anything
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nationwide. The guy didn't have a
criminal record. There was no hit on him
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make a match.
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Marvin Casey was disappointed, but he
didn't give up. I obtained a roster from
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the conference in Fresno, which was
attended by 250 fire investigators,
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insurance agents, and people like that.
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I got my California map, and I traced it
down and put indicators showing where
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the fires had started. They had to be
traveling alone because arson is really
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secretive crime.
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I narrowed it down to 55 individuals
that was traveling down Highway 99
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from the convention to the Southern
California area.
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What Marvin does is he offers the ATF
the names of 55 firefighters and a
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fingerprint and says, if you put this
all together, you're probably going to
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find a serial arsonist.
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And they looked at the roster and said
55 men. I really don't think we can work
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that many.
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I was disappointed, but I still couldn't
get it out of my head.
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I continued to work the theory, and
finally, the fire marshal that I was
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for said, you know, put this on the back
burner, you know, you beat this horse
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to death.
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For the next two years, fires continued
to pop up all over California, but none
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were connected to the 1987 fire spree.
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It turns out there's a conference taking
place in Pacific Grove where a group of
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firefighters get together. It's just off
the coast of San Francisco area. All
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fire investigators get together and
they're discussing the fires in
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and how we were going to approach it in
the future.
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One of the fire investigators that was
there, he called me and said, hey, I'm
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going to tell you something that's going
to knock your socks off.
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There was other fires that had occurred
during that convention, like someone had
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just left the convention, was going back
to Southern California, traveling down
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101, and setting the fire in a different
town.
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This is very eerily similar to what
happened just two years earlier.
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This, to me, seemed like it was the same
M .O. that had happened in 87.
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These fires were during business hours
when people were in the store shopping.
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After I'd received information that
there had been fire going down Highway
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I pulled my map back out that I had used
in 87 that I had identified as a person
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traveling down 99. I knew that it had to
be someone from Southern California
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because that's the way the map was
indicating.
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So he asked organizers for a list of
names, who attended this conference.
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And he gets that list and compares it to
the one that he had two years earlier.
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Then I put the two together and compared
them, and I came up then with ten
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names, ten people that attended both
conferences.
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And on these ten names is the name of a
firefighter who's probably responsible
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for some of these fairly significant
arson.
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Then I recontacted ATF, and I said,
listen, I've got it down to ten names.
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we work with ten names? They said, yes,
I believe we can.
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So I sent the 10 names up to them, and
they were to compare the fingerprint.
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They run the names in the fingerprint,
and there's no match to any of these
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firefighters in that fingerprint.
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I was starting to think, you know, well,
maybe this will never be solved.
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I'd taken a lot of gut from all these
guys. They just didn't want to believe
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that it was one of our own that was
setting fires.
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I was probably the only one that
suspected it, that believed it.
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June 1990 was an unusual fire season.
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The fires had begun in spots all over
California, and it stretched the
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of local fire departments pretty thin.
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We had Santa Ana winds blowing.
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High winds blowing out of the hills are
what moves most of our fires in
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California.
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You have dry, tender, hot conditions,
and then winds that can sometimes get up
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into the 50s. It's a perfect playground
for an arsenal because you add a match,
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and now you've got havoc.
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On June 27, I went to my doctor's, and
when I was coming back, right on the
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hillside, the weeds, they were so dry.
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It gave me a creepy feeling. I don't
know why that feeling came to me. I
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if somebody put a match to that weed, it
would just burn.
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We live in a two -story family home.
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College Hills is a residential area of
Glendale, nestled in a foothill
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region of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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I saw a very thick smoke, and I realized
the fire is in our
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street, right below us.
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At about 3 o 'clock, 3 .30 in the
afternoon, there was a report of a fire
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area that had experienced a few fires
before, right off of a busy thoroughfare
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in the middle of town.
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And by the time I arrived at the scene,
the fire had ripped up a hill, included
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about five acres, involved two or three
homes.
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That fire advanced up that hill pretty
darn quick.
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And it escalated because the Santa Ana
winds were blowing.
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There's a house burning and another
house burning, and there's smoke in the
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and you can feel the flames.
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The fire was so intense and the winds
were so strong.
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It jumped an eight -lane freeway.
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Everybody start evacuating now.
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My husband.
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He came to our street. He was blocked.
And right in front of his eyes,
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a house exploded onto people.
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And fortunately, at that time, he saw a
woman, an officer, and asked, go to
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my house and tell my wife, just get out,
get out of the house.
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Right now, when I'm thinking back, it
makes me very emotional.
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After these women told us just get out,
get out of the house, I pulled the car
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from the garage. I drove down the
street. I remember smoke. It was thick
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And the whole street was covered with
crisscross fire hoses.
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We went to the shopping center and we
just watched the fires on
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the hills and seeing.
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The houses that they were exploding like
firecrackers.
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It was just surreal.
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At around 7 .30, 8 o 'clock, they put
the fire out.
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The fire destroyed or damaged
approximately 67 homes in this College
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community. It was very emotional that I
saw that our house was saved.
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It was the largest fire in the city of
Glendale's history.
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To this day, I can't believe that no one
died in the College Hills fire.
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It amazes me that all those people were
able to get out of there.
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It was a miracle.
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But the circumstances surrounding this
fire seem suspicious.
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John Orr is the Glendale fire captain,
and in this case, this fire, the College
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Hills fire, is now happening in his
city.
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John's adamant that this fire is arson.
He walks out into the middle of the
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field and picks up a lighter.
449
00:33:16,090 --> 00:33:20,350
He tells the other investigators that,
well, here, we found the cause of this
450
00:33:20,350 --> 00:33:23,170
fire, and it happened right here. It's
this lighter.
451
00:33:24,130 --> 00:33:29,110
He was uncanny about his ability to find
these incendiary devices.
452
00:33:29,990 --> 00:33:31,390
We have some very good leads.
453
00:33:31,730 --> 00:33:33,770
John had great relationships with
reporters.
454
00:33:34,490 --> 00:33:39,770
And he recognized that the local media
would be a pretty good way to advance
455
00:33:39,770 --> 00:33:43,050
investigation. By saying, listen, this
is an arson fire.
456
00:33:43,310 --> 00:33:47,330
We're looking for a serial arsonist.
Some of the evidence matches up with
457
00:33:47,330 --> 00:33:48,770
individual and ties him into the fires.
458
00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:50,790
We don't have an identity on him.
459
00:33:54,130 --> 00:33:59,250
There was all kinds of witnesses to the
College Hills fire. In one case... A
460
00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:03,610
woman describes having a man come to her
door and say, hey, did you know there's
461
00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:04,610
a fire in your backyard?
462
00:34:04,950 --> 00:34:08,830
And, of course, this is before she can
smell anything or see anything.
463
00:34:09,150 --> 00:34:14,130
And, again, within seconds, he's gone,
and suddenly the fire's going.
464
00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:19,330
One of the witnesses sees a white Chevy
Blazer right at the point of origin.
465
00:34:21,949 --> 00:34:25,330
In the investigation of this fire, John
was put in charge of a tip line.
466
00:34:25,570 --> 00:34:26,570
And so...
467
00:34:26,830 --> 00:34:31,070
As the active investigator, all the tips
on this fire, anybody that saw anything
468
00:34:31,070 --> 00:34:36,130
that had to do with it had to call this
tip line, and John vetted all the tips.
469
00:34:38,750 --> 00:34:43,850
In late 1990 and going into 91, there's
an epidemic of fires that are happening
470
00:34:43,850 --> 00:34:45,810
in retail stores all over L .A.
471
00:34:46,050 --> 00:34:52,350
In each of these fires, there's a device
that's very similar, and that device
472
00:34:52,350 --> 00:34:56,010
was a relatively simple design but very
effective, a cigarette.
473
00:34:56,510 --> 00:35:01,090
It had three matches attached to it by a
rubber band, and it was placed inside a
474
00:35:01,090 --> 00:35:03,790
piece of folded yellow -lined notepad
paper.
475
00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:12,350
On March 27th of 1991, I learned that
the L .A. Sheriff's Arson Unit had
476
00:35:12,350 --> 00:35:18,190
responded to a large commercial fire in
the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Later
477
00:35:18,190 --> 00:35:22,190
that same day, I got a briefing from the
investigators that responded to the
478
00:35:22,190 --> 00:35:27,080
scene, and by that time, they learned
that... It wasn't just one fire.
479
00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:33,180
There had actually been three fires in
the same area, and in each one of those
480
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:36,520
fires, it started in pillows or foam
products.
481
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,660
Clearly, the conclusion was that we had
a serial offender who had started those
482
00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:48,660
fires, and we decided that it would be
prudent to form a task force, and our
483
00:35:48,660 --> 00:35:53,380
goal was to start visiting all of the
local smaller jurisdictions in the
484
00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:54,480
Los Angeles area.
485
00:35:54,990 --> 00:35:59,010
and see if they had had any fires that
met that same MO.
486
00:36:00,970 --> 00:36:07,530
Within days, we were able to identify
close to 30 fires in Los Angeles over a
487
00:36:07,530 --> 00:36:09,410
four -month period from December through
March.
488
00:36:12,010 --> 00:36:16,110
The device is obviously a signature, but
the MO goes beyond that.
489
00:36:16,490 --> 00:36:22,390
We noticed that the fires were fairly
close to freeway on and off ramp.
490
00:36:22,810 --> 00:36:28,030
access, which would allow the
perpetrator easy ingress from the fire
491
00:36:28,030 --> 00:36:33,630
fires were all set in either hardware
stores or fashion -type stores, stores
492
00:36:33,630 --> 00:36:37,930
that would have polyurethane foam in
them. And that is really the connection
493
00:36:37,930 --> 00:36:40,970
between these fabric stores and hardware
stores.
494
00:36:41,550 --> 00:36:44,770
The fact that these fires were being
started in the middle of the day in
495
00:36:44,770 --> 00:36:48,630
businesses where there's customers was
obvious to us that there's a large
496
00:36:48,630 --> 00:36:52,410
of loss of life if we didn't solve this
case soon.
497
00:36:54,030 --> 00:36:58,810
Now that the task force is established,
the lead investigators need to meet with
498
00:36:58,810 --> 00:37:00,850
arson investigators in Los Angeles.
499
00:37:01,190 --> 00:37:05,510
The treasurer of the association, John
Orr, was well known to myself and others
500
00:37:05,510 --> 00:37:08,610
as the arson investigator for the city
of Glendale.
501
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:13,760
and we hoped that maybe he had some
information to share.
502
00:37:15,020 --> 00:37:19,900
After the meeting ended, our
investigator got approached in a parking
503
00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:24,180
California State Fire Marshal, and he
says, I have to talk to you. I didn't
504
00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:25,400
to say anything in the open meeting.
505
00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:30,060
We think a fireman might be responsible,
and we should be careful about what we
506
00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:31,460
say in front of this group.
507
00:37:32,060 --> 00:37:37,400
He said we had the exact same scenario
in 1987 in Fresno.
508
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:43,180
This is Tulare and Bakersfield, and they
had in fact recovered a yellow line
509
00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:46,820
paper, cigarette, and match device from
one of those fires.
510
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,460
Seems to be an exact match with the
device you recovered.
511
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,680
You need to talk to Marv Casey, the
arson investigator for the city of
512
00:37:54,680 --> 00:38:00,080
Bakersfield. I get a call from the Los
Angeles guys, and they want to come up
513
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,180
and take a look at the yellow line paper
that had the fingerprint.
514
00:38:03,930 --> 00:38:08,850
It was run against every fingerprint
stored for any possible reason in the
515
00:38:08,850 --> 00:38:14,530
system. So it was not only people that
were arrested for crimes, but also
516
00:38:14,530 --> 00:38:17,670
that had their fingerprints taken for
any purpose, whether it be a law
517
00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:20,070
enforcement officer or a fire service.
518
00:38:20,370 --> 00:38:25,110
About three days after a phone call came
in from the sheriff's lab, he says, you
519
00:38:25,110 --> 00:38:26,670
got John Orr's fingerprints on it.
520
00:38:28,850 --> 00:38:32,830
First thing they did was call me and
tell me, you know, You tell John Orr to
521
00:38:32,830 --> 00:38:35,990
quit touching that evidence. I said, he
was nowhere around when I investigated
522
00:38:35,990 --> 00:38:37,130
that fire. What are you talking about?
523
00:38:37,990 --> 00:38:41,830
It made no sense that his prints should
be on a device from Bakersfield.
524
00:38:42,610 --> 00:38:45,750
I knew John personally. I've worked
cases with him, worked on investigations
525
00:38:45,750 --> 00:38:46,750
with him.
526
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:51,850
I've taken arson scene investigation
training with him. He's trusted as one
527
00:38:51,850 --> 00:38:52,850
us.
528
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,300
I thought it could be somebody just
messing with the fire guys that were up
529
00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:02,880
there for the conference. They're trying
to tantalize or to torture or torment
530
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,500
the fire investigators, say, catch me if
you can.
531
00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:11,100
How could it be one of our own? The
arsonist would remain on the loose, and
532
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:12,480
had no intention of stopping.
533
00:39:13,020 --> 00:39:17,960
In the meantime, suspicious fires
continued to pop up all over southern
534
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:18,960
central California.
535
00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:23,470
Eventually, the fire is going to grow
enough that someone's not going to be
536
00:39:23,470 --> 00:39:24,049
to escape.
537
00:39:24,050 --> 00:39:26,190
We could not allow that to happen.
538
00:39:28,750 --> 00:39:32,750
Will investigators be able to catch the
elusive arsonist before he strikes
539
00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:36,550
again? Could the person starting these
fires really be one of their own?
540
00:39:36,810 --> 00:39:37,910
An arson expert?
541
00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:40,950
A firefighter? Someone sworn to save
lives?
542
00:39:41,350 --> 00:39:44,990
The shocking conclusion in part two of
The Fire Starter.
543
00:39:45,310 --> 00:39:46,410
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
544
00:39:46,630 --> 00:39:47,630
Thanks for watching.
545
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,160
Good night.
546
00:39:49,210 --> 00:39:53,760
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