Spain’s national police says it has deployed sniffer dogs to help investigate a large fire that destroyed one of the country’s largest meat plants last month in the northern city of Burgos. The fire on Nov. 16 gutted the Campofrio …
A droplet of accelerant no bigger than the tip of an ink pen can’t get by Gemma. Gemma is a new employee of Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office, introduced to media Wednesday in front of a burned home in Marion. …
Iowa authorities introduced a K-9 trained to be an accelerant detection dog for arson cases. The state Department of Public Safety said that Pogo met the public Wednesday morning in Des Moines. Pogo and his handler, Special Agent Jeff Shatzer, …
Federal arson officials now are among nearly three dozen investigators looking into a fire that gutted an historic San Antonio church. The Childress Memorial Church of God in Christ went up in flames Friday. It’s about a mile north of …
An accelerant detection dog should be considered for all large loss residential and commercial structure fires, vehicle fires, incendiary fires and any undetermined fires, according to Michael Koster, fire investigator and owner of Calif. – based Reliant Investigations. Reliant’s dogs …