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Two NYPD housing officers suffered critical injuries Sunday when they rushed into a Brooklyn high-rise for a suspicious fire and suddenly became overcome by smoke, police said.
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Morphix Technologies' new Chameleon Arson Investigation Kit is an easy-to-use, low-cost tool designed to identify dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in the investigation after a fire.
Read More →A University of California, Irvine professor who was grieving the suicide of his teenage son is accused of writing in e-mail that he would commit mass murder at his late son's high school.
Read More →An arson suspect doused a Randolph (Mass.) Police officer in gasoline after setting fire to his house late Saturday night. Officer Marc L'Italien wasn't hurt, because he immediately left the home.
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A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's reserve deputy who works by day as an attorney, is being credited with detaining a suspected serial arsonist.
Read More →A Clearwater (Fla.) Police officer entered a burning apartment complex this morning, helping residents exit the building before firefighters were able to get the fire under control.
Read More →A 25-year-old Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate-crime charges stemming from a series of racially motivated arson crimes, including the burning of an historic African-American church to murder a disabled man.
Read More →Tina Wilcox, 53, has been charged with arson and criminal domestic violence. Police later arrested Wilcox while she was "extremely intoxicated and watching TV on the couch at a relative's house."
Read More →Alexander Piggee has been booked into the Placer County Jail on suspicion of arson, arson under conditions likely to cause great bodily injury and causing damages and losses in excess of $6.5 million, burglary, and making criminal threats.
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Although arson laws and reporting requirements vary from state to state, here are some basic things to consider when investigating fire incidents, especially as a patrol officer.
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