tharkun #85: Nope, no flamethrowers day of fire. No need for same. The tank retrievers——okay CEVs—–lobbed cannisters of CS into various parts of the building. When they go “pop” they generate varying degrees of heat. Enough to ignite grass outside or sheetrock debris inside. Additionally the CS particles
themselves can prove flamable.

The CEVs knocked holes in both ends of the building and, in conjunction with the prevailing wind, turned the whole building into a combustion chamber. Once ignition occurred, things burned so rapidly that the majority of inhabitants had no chance to escape. Especially not those women and all the children who huddled in what they thought was a protected position and who suffocated before they could move.

Now was that fire dumb or diabolical? I think both. The majority of participants were (somewhat wilfully) blind to what would occur. Then there was a mind or three well aware of what creates spontaneous combustion
with plausible deniability. Or blame it on the Davidians themselves. While I doubt the official line of mass suicide, there were various and sundry coleman lanterns and cooking fires inside and no doubt these helped things along.

But no flamethrowers.