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Re: So no causes what do yall think.
Posted by:
dcarpenter (IP Logged)
Date: July 21, 2021 07:27AM
I would hope that the application of the SM does not change with which "side" you are on.
The determination of the cause classification is either accidental or incendiary. Does Arson not come from a determination of an incendiary fire?
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> Does it depend on the side of the fence you are
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> Public,
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> have to work in the constraints of the arson laws.
> Plus, sometimes fire investigates the fire. If
> determined in some manner it was arson, sometimes
> it gets passed to the police to make the legal
> case. Fire just backs up the scene investigation.
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> Private, which I have not done,,
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> seems almost the same. They investigate the scene.
> Document it, and submit findings to someone, to
> decide if they are going to pay the claim. If
> someone torched it, the report should support
> that.
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