Murder By Fire

On Sunday, February 20th, 2005 four people were killed in a house fire in my town. Three of those four were children. The fire broke out at 8 am on Sunday morning and by the time that the Kokomo Fire Department arrived at 8:02 am, the house was pretty much engulfed in flames.

KFD has been investigating the cause of the fire since Sunday. They do not know exactly how the fire was started but they say that the fire was arson. A dog that is trained to smell accelerant (something that will make a fire burn fast and spread faster) was brought it and detected some sort of accelerant in the gutted, charred home.

I cannot understand for the life of me why anyone would want to intentionally start a fire. I will admit, I am a pyro (someone that likes fire) but I would NEVER intentionally set a fire. I know what fire can do and know that it destroys lives. The person that did this is one sick S.O.B. and should and will pay the price for their actions.

I hope they find this sick person soon. I have a few suggestions on how to handle this person. Here are the choices:

1. Put them in a vacant building that needs to be torn down anyway, put them somewhere where they cannot escape, and set the place ablaze. Let them suffer the same way an innocent mother and her children died.

2. Lock them up in solitary confinement. Plaster the walls of the entire cell with pictures of those kids and their mother. Make that sicko look at those pictures and think about what they did to those people and their family. Make them feel the guilt that they carry and let it eat away at them for the rest of their years.

I think that I would go with the second option.

I am sorry if I offend anyone with option number one but I just feel that way. I look at it as, "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth."

My heart goes out to those lost and their entire family. May God be with them and watch over them during this difficult time.

Here are a few links to some of the articles written in the media about this horrific tragedy:

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=2981687&nav=9TahWfWS (this is an article from WTHR, Channel 13 in Indianapolis)

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4220768/detail.html (This is an article from RTV6 in Indianapolis)