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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140704:00:48:00

A liquid accelerant does. people have said, oh, the whole house caught fire from one end to the other in under five minutes. somebody must have poured gasoline. it s not true. you flash over one room and very quickly your house is involved. flashover could also explain the furniture being consumed. following a post flashover fire, what you expect to see is tables, chairs, couches, all of it reduced to charcoal. it is very common for fire investigators to work on the premise that the fire was too hot or too fast to be a natural fire. in other words, the idea that only an accelerant can generate enough heat to destroy a heavy dining room table. but as this other fire investigation experiment shows, ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111119:18:49:00

Enough heat to destroy a heavy dining room table. but as this other fire investigation experiment shows, a gasoline fire only gives off large intense flames for around a minute. by the time a piece of furniture begins burning on its own, the gasoline will have already burned off. from that point on, the gasoline fire burns at around the same temperature as a normal fire would. what s more, if an accelerant had been used to start the willis fire, it would have taken an enormous amount to generate such a large pour pattern. the pour patterns indicated that somewhere in the vicinity of 25 to 30 gallons of accelerant such as gasoline was used to start this fire. white further concludes that willis may have been physically unable to start this fire. i had just had back surgery, back-to-back two weeks apart. i couldn t pick up five gallons of gasoline, much less carry it and spread it around a house. after an eight-week investigation, hurst and his colleague ken ryeland issue a ....

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