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Shawn runs to her and begins performing CPR until the EMTs are able to load her and the kids up in ambulances and
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[music] take them off, but they will never be coming back home. One by one, like the way they came out of that
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house, over the next few days, they succumb to their injuries and pass [music] away without ever waking up,
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without ever being able to say what happened that night or what caused the fire that ravaged their home. That
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[music] was a mystery left for the Chicago Fire Department investigators and Chicago police. And anyone [music]
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who is familiar with fire investigation will know that they are notoriously difficult because the entire scene is
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one giant ball of contamination. I mean, everything on the first floor is covered
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in water and soot and debris. [music] There is no drywall even left to speak of. And even the support beams of the
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house in this fire, the ones that are exposed, those are all charred. But despite everything that is ruined by the
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fire, there is some evidence that the fire itself provides, like where it started and what could have caused it.
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Pretty quickly, everyone hones in on the [music] kitchen. Actually, one particular area on the east half where
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the fire patterns indicate that it originated. And a couple of key clues right around there are interesting to
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them. The stove and this outlet. On the stove, there was a pot on the rear left burner and a pan kind of sitting like on
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the right side. And even though the plastic knobs on the stove had melted away, investigators could see that the
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leftover metal stem was clearly turned to hide. And near the stove that had clearly been turned on, they also saw a
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melted water cooler plugged into a charred extension cord that ran all the way to the wall. So, they know the what
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and where. The fire started in this general area of the kitchen. What they don't know is how and why. Like, was
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there a spark from this outlet? Did something bubble over on the stove? When? Who put it there?
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>> Well, and I assume they tested for accelerants and stuff like that, too, right? Well, according to the reports
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that we have from the Chicago police, there is only one piece of evidence that they sent off to the lab in this case
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for testing. There was this metal can that was on the floor near the stove >> and they had that tested like seeing if
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there was any kind of accelerant or anything or like anything in it. Yeah. But they found out this had nothing to
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do with the cause of the fire. That is the scene side of things. >> The what, the where, the how, that's
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being handled by the Chicago Fire Department. Chicago police detectives are trying to collect anything that
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might give them the who or the why. And the first person they [music] turn to is
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Shawn.