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RowdyRudy,

That is just beautiful!



Boy, if that don't sum up the whole problem!

Excellent example!

My Dodge van burnt down in '99...right before my eyes... About 5 min...Lost about $3000 in tools, and all the stock (except my fishing tackle box, and checkbook!)
Attributed to an "electrical short!"
Might be the default setting/catch all for the insurance industry??...S

electure, Love your sense of importance, so did you go fishing the rest of that day???

mj,
Unfortunately, it sounds like your Fire Investigation people are only paid to give a rough idea as to what has caused a fire.
Over here, we use sience and well-founded knowledge, to determine the cause,we are also funded by the Insurance companies to a certain degree, in Fire Investigation.

and there in lies a big difference Trumpy.....you have some level of common forensics , conversley it is scarce here.

for example ( pursuant to rhagfo's 11-16 post), we allow anyone to wire single family homes in Vermont, yet even this simplistic fact is not of concern to any fire and/or insurance offical.

the insurance co's simply pay off most of the time, with little to no ado...

[This message has been edited by sparky (edited 11-18-2002).]