Here are a few simple rules on how to succeed as an arsonist:
- Use a slow accelerant so you can make your getaway and establish an alibi.
- Work clean, work careful. Don't spill, don't use smelly stuff, trim excessive hair.
- Don't blow up your own house; you'll be first on the suspect list if you screw up.
- Under no circumstances should you ever run out of your own house with burning hair and beard, smelling of gasoline, just before it blows itself to smithereens.
Salt Lake Tribune – Explosion disintegrates Sugar House home, sparks fires in neighboring houses
About 10 p.m. Monday, a boom shook neighboring homes (in the Salt Lake/Sugar House district) as the brick-made residence ignited, according to neighbors. The homes to the immediate east and west also caught fire and suffered significant damage.
Neighbors rushed from their homes upon hearing the blast. They told reporters a man emerged from the home, just beating the full brunt of the blast, and ran into the street with hair and beard aflame. He smelled like gasoline, said Chad Heitkemper, who lives four houses east of the home that exploded.
McKone said the man suffered minor injuries. He was taken to LDS Hospital and then to jail.
Investigators do not yet know what was used to cause the explosion or why it may have been set, McKone said.
[tags]Arson, Salt Lake, Sugar House[/tags]