Question

TUTVUMU VIVIETU TUNT 2. You've been called to investigate the scene of a very large restaurant fire. While much of the restaurant sustained heavy fire damage, it appears from your investigation that most of the fire occurred in the main dining area near the restaurant entrance. During your investigation, you find a damp piece of cloth sitting on a badly charred window sill. The cloth smelled of gasoline. a. (3 pts) Give a reasonable explanation for why the cloth was unburnt from the fire while the window sill that was in direct contact with the cloth burned and charred.

Answer 1

a) This seems a self planned fire at the restaurant. Any person has put some gasoline in restaurant and while doing so some gasoline may fallen on him/her and then he set fire in the restaurant.

Later when fire is ceased , that person cleaned his/her hand with that cloth and put it on window sill , that is why cloth was unburnt.