# Cause of Fire

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cause-of-fire/116649>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 30, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cause-of-fire/116649 "2002-06-30T03:20:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cause-of-fire/116649/1 "2002-06-30T03:20:39Z")

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How can investagators detirmine the cause of a fire? I would think that a large fire would pretty much destroy any evidence left by someone or something.

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**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cause-of-fire/116649/2 "2002-06-30T04:02:34Z")

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[[link=www.cfmoa.org/members/firearsonmanual/intro/](http://link=www.cfmoa.org/members/firearsonmanual/intro/)] This online manual[/link] should tell you all you ever wanted to know and then some.

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**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cause-of-fire/116649/3 "2002-06-30T04:04:01Z")

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Well shoot, sorry about the coding cock-up [http://www.cfmoa.org/members/firearsonmanual/intro/](http://www.cfmoa.org/members/firearsonmanual/intro/)