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Re: Fire Origin Pattern Persistence
Posted by:
Sir Gary (IP Logged)
Date: November 23, 2016 02:03AM
> you need a surface adjacent to the fire origin to be able to "preserve" any related fire origin pattern(s)
Got a case like that now - a prefabricated building burnt down to the ground;
basically just asbestos roof-sheeting dust on a concrete slab.
The Insurer doesn't want to understand why he is paying good money for an Undetermined finding (without so much as even a mooted fire origin, let alone -cause);
due to the ongoing rioting at the time "it is obviously Arson".