How do firefighters (or investigators idk) find the cause of a fire? Isn’t that super hard if everything is just ash and dust?

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How do firefighters (or investigators idk) find the cause of a fire? Isn’t that super hard if everything is just ash and dust?

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Electrical fires have tell tale signs. The live conductor will start arcing- little zaps of electricity- to something grounded. This is so hot that it melts the copper leaving splashes of copper and little craters. Pure copper melts at over 1000 deg C, so regular fires aren’t melting copper.

As electricity is a common way of accidentally fires to start, it’s a good place to start looking.

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