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Re: Contaminated flood waters effect on fire scenes
Posted by:
John J. Lentini, CFEI (IP Logged)
Date: August 23, 2006 11:06AM
I would not expect such contamination to accelerate a fire, but I would expect it to contaminate fire debris samples, for months or years.
There is, to my knowledge, no research on this subject.
Running comparison samples in such cases is imperative.