3.Jamie Kavanaugh had been assigned to the three recent China Basin warehouse fires as the most junior arson investigator. It was his first assignment after completing the fire science core of classes at City College back in January of 1998. And then, after waiting almost an entire year, finally being promoted from firefighter-one status to full-time arson investigator just two months ago.
The fire marshal had strongly suspected intentional arson, because the buildings had been vacant for quite some time, all electricity and gas cut off. But to date that remained to be seen. Jamie had put in some long days on each of the three warehouse fires, doing mostly grunt follow-up work. He’d interviewed about twenty-five people, including hunting down several homeless past occupants of buildings i
