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Trailer evidence

A physical pathway of combustible material laid between two ignition areas in a structure arson to allow a single ignition act to start multiple fires at separate locations; burns during the fire and may survive only as a narrow linear char.

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Cal Fire Law Enforcement and Investigations DivisionDevil's eye burn patternHeel of a fireIgnition-point clustering analysisMultiple origin areasNegative-corpus argumentPour patternTime-of-day analysisUndetermined cause

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