The Man in the River - eBook

🔥Wow. That’s a bad day.🔥 I smiled and looked toward the home. Someone had stacked firewood at the base of the home and lit it ablaze. The fire, then, had climbed up the side of the house, melting the vinyl but not catching the home’s internals on fire. It’d take a contractor a weekend to fix the damage, but the home looked livable. “So what have we got?” “Attempted arson,” he said, putting on some blue gloves and kneeling next to the home to sift through the debris on the ground. I knelt beside him and caught a whiff of gasoline. “It looks like our arsonist stacked firewood against the house like a teepee, then poured gasoline over the top of it. He might have put some firewood on the ground, too, but I don’t know. He then poured gas on the grass around the wood to create a trail. Then he lit it up. “Fortunately, gasoline burns so quickly it didn’t have time to heat the home’s construction timbers to their ignition point. We hosed it down, but it mostly fizzled out on its own.” I step