Arson
Arson is the criminal act of burning or charring property on purpose. The act of arson may include such acts as setting fire to a property maliciously, or burning a property with the intent to collect insurance money. While most people consider arson to be the burning of buildings, it may also be the burning of cars, boats, personal property, and land. According to common law, there are certain elements required to determine a fire to be caused by arson. These elements of arson include (1) the malicious, (2) burning, (3) of a dwelling, (4) belonging to another. Most states define different degrees of arson depending on the circumstances surrounding the act. This includes factors such as whether the building was occupied at the time
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Aggravated Arson
In many states, a charge of arson may be upgraded to “aggravated arson,” which is decided based on whether the accused anticipated a person being inside the building when they started the fire. The primary consideration in classifying aggravated arson is malicious intent. Intent may be caused by financial distress, anger, and other issues that would trigger some-ones emotions. Aggravated arson is the same as First Degree Arson in some states, and may include the burning of a building to obtain an insurance settlement, or the setting of a fire for the purpose of harming another person, or to cause fear.
Reckless Arson
While most people consider arson to be the intentional setting of fires, reckless behavior that leads to the destruction of property by fire may also lead to arson charges. Reckless arson can happen to anyone. If you go to a park that prohibits camp fires and you then in fact start one and it gets away from you, then you could be tried for reckless arson. In many jurisdictions, reckless arson not only subjects the perpetrator to criminal charges, but he may be required to pay the high cost of fire suppression.
Accidental
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Many different types of motives lead people to commit arson. Some of the motives might be revenge, or people seeking a thrill, covering up a crime that has already been commited, and emotional issues. Although there are a lot of possible motives the most common reason that people will commit arson is part of a greater plan, general they are trying to commit insurance fraud. People who burn their own property are most likely looking to commit insurance fraud. People commit insurance fraud because they need money. People also commit arson for insurance fraud when the property that they own becomes not worth as much as what they hoped for due to external factors like the market. It is very common to hear of houses that are half way done being burned to the ground. This is generally because the contractor is going to make more money off the insurance company rather than selling the house when it’s completed or he doesn’t have the money to complete the
Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house
Combustion is an exothermic reaction that reacts when in contact with oxygen producing heat and a new product. These reactions are as exothermic as it gets. The general form of a combustion reaction is the reaction between a hydrocarbon and oxygen to create carbon dioxide and water. Hydrocarbon + O₂→CO₂+H₂O. Occasionally, these reactions can release light and produce a flame. To start a reaction, most require a flame to provide heat and initiate the reaction. Combustion is a very common reaction. It's what makes our cars go, and it's what burning is. It is containing carbon which reacts with oxygen to form CO2 and H2O. A simple example of the combustion of Methane, a natural gas, CH4 + 2O2 →CO2 + 2H2O. Another example includes the burning of naphthalene with the equation C10H8 + 12 O2 → 10 CO2 + 4 H2O. The combustion of ethane is 2C2H6 + 7O2 → 4CO2 + 6H2O which is another example. A real life example is the combustion of gunpowder. Gunpowder is a mix of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. The potassium nitrate decomposes at a high temperature to provide the oxygen needed. The charcoal and sulfur are the fuels in this reaction. The equation for this reaction is as follows 2 KNO₃ + S +3 C →K₂S + N₂ + 3 CO₂. An incomplete reaction occurs when the oxygen is
Prescribed fire is a controlled burn of an area done by a team of experienced or educated people in a grassland or forested area. This type of burn is intended to help the health of plant and animal species and restore them to their native state. When certain areas that need to be burned so often do not get burned, they can be a hazard to the ecosystem in which it presides. A forest can get over grown and thick which will create more fuel for a wildfire that can destroy a forest community. In grassland a controlled burn, or prescribed burn, can help eliminate invasive species that can take over grasslands that are harmful to the more desirable plants. This type of fire can be seen as harmful and a disaster by many people, but it has great benefits on the areas in which it is done.
The statement “Killing 150,000 people in less than a second actually allowed fewer lives to be lost.” might sound horrendous. However, that statement is the reason why the United States was able to win the Second World War. In contrast to this statement, some people might argue that it is inhumane to massacre that many people in less than a second. The dropping of the atomic bombs on August sixth and ninth of 1945 was the correct decision for American in order to effectively and efficiently end World War Two. America should have dropped the bomb because it saved American lives, there was a lack of incentives not to use the bomb, and dropping the bombs was the quickest way to end the war.
Words have so many different meanings. Just pick up a dictionary to discover the many different meanings of the same word. Have you ever wondered where the meaning of the word originated? Maybe you have asked what a word means when another has used it out of context. How did one word come to mean so many different things? This paper will allow me to explore the definition of burn and where it originated. I will also discover how it has changed over the years and what the definition is today.
Poverty is an epidemic that is hard to cure. Very rarely will someone in poverty be able to break the cycle and escape. Accomplishing this task requires determination and courage. In Barn Burning by William Faulkner, Sartoris, the protagonist, is a rare one that breaks the cycle and is able to free himself. The passage is about a little boy who is stuck in the lower class. His abusive father is known as “white trash,” and burns the barns of upper-class citizens because he is jealous of them. Towards the end of the story, Sartoris realizes that he wants to be better than his father and decides to run away. In the last two paragraphs, Faulkner uses a vivid description of the setting, a shift in tone, and the protagonist’s actions to express the
These interests are violated by the intentional torts of assault, Battery, trespass, False Imprisonment, invasion of privacy, conversion, Misrepresentation, and Fraud. The intent element of these torts is satisfied when the tortfeasor acts with the desire to bring about harmful consequences and is substantially certain that such consequences will follow. Mere reckless behavior, sometimes called willful and wanton behavior, does not rise to the level of an intentional
Yes John Orr is the definition of a serial arsonist basing it off of what was mentioned in the first slide alone, not even adding in what is applied to this in the other slide. John Orr did not care at all who he harmed in his fires and it is even stated in the video that he felt that the people who were hurt and killed in the fires as stupid people who had made stupid decisions by not getting out or away from the fire soon enough. He did not exhibit any sort of rebellious behavior, but did try to join multiple blue collar jobs such as the police force and the fire department for the city of Los Angeles and failed at both of these so he took on small blue collar jobs until landing at a small fire department. This allowed him to move up the
The release of the hazardous material or exposure to the fire that ensues results in the need to evacuate 25 or more people
When someone extremely hates something it causes them to do ridiculous things for example, join a hate group. There are plenty of motives that get them to join. One motive would be hatred. People think the only way to stop something they hate is to use violence, but the problem is that it can
Serial killers are only motivated by sex; this is a misconception because not all serial murders are sexually-based. There are many other motivations for serial murders, including anger, thrill, financial gain, and attention seeking. For instance, a former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant and Lee Boyd Malvo killed primarily for anger and thrill motivations (“Serial Murder”). In addition, serial killers are all the same is also a misassumption. There are different type of serial murders including motives, visionary, mission-oriented, power/control, and hedonistic. Each has their own motivations and reasons to kill, but hedonists murdered for lust/sexual, thrill/rush, comfort/profit, or all three categories. First and foremost, a serial killer is defined
Investigating an arson is very difficult because fires tend to destroy evidence and firefighters while fighting the blaze will move things around and destroy even more evidence. Once an investigation is open for an arson, investigators need to find the source of heat and the material ignited in order to determine if it was a set fire. The two most important question investigators will ask is where and how did the fire start? When a fire has multiple starting points that should raise the level of suspicion and dictate if the fire was purposely set. Other preliminary steps to take is for investigators to find ignition devices. These devices can be gasoline, chemicals, matches, or other types of accelerants. Accelerants also known as boosters speeds of the process of a fire by adding to the initial fire for the fire to burn rapidly and increase the intensity. Firefighter and law enforcement can look for melted metals or similar materials. This can mean that accelerants were used because metals usually burn at about 3,000*F. The most important thing for law enforcement and fire fighters when suspecting an arson is to not move and contaminate any physical evidence. The first thing they should secure is any harm or injuries and clear
1) What are some of the fire anomalies an arson investigator will look for during an investigation? A fire investigator will first ensure that the fire did not have an accidental cause, by searching for clues like faulty wiring, cigarette smoking and overheated electric motors. Then the investigator will begin an extensive on-site investigation by first looking for containers that are capable of holding an accelerant, as well as an ignition device such as a candle. The investigator will also be looking for irregularly shaped patterns on the floor, which could be caused by the accelerant. Finally, the accelerant will search for signs of breaking and entering and theft.
...r it is arson, an uncontrolled camp fire, or a cigarette butt it doesn’t take much for humans to spark a disaster. Yet there is as well a few set by good old Mother Nature. On top of the effects on the earth as well as humans, there is only one thing we all can do and that is listen to our old pal Smokey the Bear when he says, “only you can prevent wildfire.”
Obliterating everything in its path, a bushfire is a natural hazard, which can be defined as wild fires in scrublands and or bushlands, especially one that spreads rapidly and is hard to contain. They can be catastrophic, causing severe damage to properties, the environment and even deaths. And as a result there is an ever-increasing need to prepare for the potential impacts of bushfires.