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There’s been a fire! Your job is to figure out where the fire started, and how. You will use evidence left behind and scientific reasoning to make a valid and reliable claim.

Fire investigation is a complex job that involves science, technology, engineering, and math to understand the story of how a fire originated.  How do fire investigators find evidence among this debris that helps them formulate a claim about the way the fire started or where it started? Knowledge of fire science!

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