VIDEO: When a fire breaks out, the first priority for the Charlotte Fire Department is safety; but after the flames are put out, the department sometimes needs to call in its special investigators to figure out exactly what caused that first spark.
Channel 9’s Damany Lewis joined CFD’s arson investigators as they train to find the first flames.
Lewis and Charlotte Fire Department investigator Chad Schull circled a training area as he and others worked to put the charred puzzle together.
“We work the room from the least amount of burn to the most burned,” Schull said.
From a damaged chair, to a destroyed sofa, Schull is working to determine how the fire started.
“There is some heat, smoke damage, fire damage to the chair … big piece of the puzzle, this door was in the closed position,” Schull says while pointing out the different parts of the training room.
