re atf burns dividian ranch update in article c y b mg news cso uiuc edu irvine uxh cso uiuc edu brent irvine writes for me though the black soot billowing outside the compound added with how fast the fire spread ponted to someone dousing large parts of the compound with some sort of gasoline or fire starter just from experience seeing a couple of houses burn down one doesn t need any accelerant to get a lot of black soot there s plenty of stuff in a house that will burn dirty even the asphalt shingles would make a really sooty smoke al standard disclaimer
