They claim that $7,000 worth of damage was done, and the fire stayed confined to just the trash can and the papertowel in the sink. And jgmcfps, thanks for the "plume" scenario, i was thinking the same thing myself. And im sure there are pictures of the scene but they aren't available to me, at least not at this moment, and the original reports stated that the origin was of course the trashcan and the cause unknown. And no swim does not have anything in his background that would constitute a motive. Swim was a full time college student on a full scholarship as well as on the deans list at the time, he also had a clean criminal record and is currently serving in the military.