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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Investigation => Topic started by: firstforensic on September 03, 2010, 09:24:46 AM

Title: Crimewatch Solved
Post by: firstforensic on September 03, 2010, 09:24:46 AM

Couldn't believe my ears so I had to watch it again on BBC iPlayer.

During the course of a fatal(murder) fire investigation the brigade investigator says - "plaster had fallen off the walls - this only happens at temperatures in excess of 1000 degrees".

Does anybody know who is teaching this nonsense? or is it individual myth making?

Title: Re: Crimewatch Solved
Post by: wee brian on September 03, 2010, 02:54:20 PM

I find that happens when I strip the wllpaper

Title: Re: Crimewatch Solved
Post by: afterburner on May 01, 2011, 01:17:38 PM

interesting crossover between the brigade fire investigator's utterance and the thread on expert witnesses.

(I know there is a difference between what is said outside of court, and under oath, but such statements do colour evidence before it can be exposed to examination)