June 1st, 1996
At Firehouse Sixteen.
Captain Daniella cleaned out her locker and she amusingly jokes that it all fits into a single cardboard box. Captain Daniella Vinton said her goodbyes to Firehouse Sixteen and pet the firehouse Dalmatian for the final time before she walked over to her car to start her new job over the Fire Department City of Empire, Arson Investigation unit and now Captain Nova Jones is in charge of Engine Company Sixteen.
The day went by quiet and they were rarely called out for emergencies. But Dave he just maintained the apparatus in the firehouse which helped out the fleet maintenance because it's less vehicles they have to repair if something breaks but Captain Nova jokingly told Dave that he should go over to Fleet Maintenance but he told her that he likes being a nozzleman.
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The next day at night, at the Fire Department city of Empire HQ, in the arson investigation wing.
"I really don't see a pattern." said Captain Daniella Vintion.
Dave replied, "Take a look at the map again. You'll see that the there's a bunch of them in Emerald Pastors and in the past twenty-four hours more have spreaded across the city."
Captain Daniella relooked at the map where the districts of Emerald Pastors, Uptown, and The Factory District has "BC:18, DC:3" and there were a lot of red pushpins in Emerald Pastors with a few orange pushpins for new ones.
Captain Daniella asked Dave if he was willing to take a ride. So they did.
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At a abandoned warehouse.
"So you got any another family members besides you mom and stepdad?" asked Dave.
Captain Daniella replied, "I got a half brother. He wanted to be a firefighter and he took the civil service exam but never got passed the psych evaluation test before training. Why he failed his psych evaluation test is because he has a pyromania mental disorder. He thinks that firefighters actually set fires but I sat down with him and told him that firefighters don't set fires."
"In my hometown they hired and trained a a member to be a member of Truck Company 5. The same company my dad leads during B shift." said Dave, "He set a fire in a apartment building and it was it nearly killed my father and the member of Engine Co 5 and Ladder Co 5 even my uncle who was a Captain on Engine 5 then, he and my father are both Lieutenants since '89."
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Dave then pried the wooden frame off with a Halligan bar. The two went in to look around. Captain Daniella then reminded Dave that they have to find anything they have to documented first and take a photograph or something so they can have proof and not fabricated evidence.
Dave and Captain Daniella looked around.
"Looks like whoever set this fire either used a accelerant that can make fire hot." said Dave, "It's so deepen charred all over the walls, floors and ceiling."
Captain Daniella replied, "At 2:45 PM Firehouse 71 responded here. Truck 71 went to do a primary search. If they went in without masking up then It would've been fatal where some beams fell. Some parts of the floor collapse trapping some members in the basement but they were able to get out in time. It took four companies to put it out."
"Hey I found something over here." said Dave, "Come take a look at this."
Captain Daniella replied, "What do you think it is?"
"Not a electrical fire whoever set this wanted to make us believe it's a electrical fire." said Dave, "Someone is crafty to make the fire think it was electrical."
There was an applauding sound.
The two turned around.
"Hello Daniella," said a male voice.
Captain Daniella replied, "Noam. You should be back in the mental hospital because you have a mental disorder a pyromania mental disorder. You been setting trash cans on fire since you were ten and now you're fourteen... Oh my God you... You have been starting fires in occupied residential buildings!"
"Hey I was right it is arson." said Dave.
Captain Daniella replied, "Yes you were right. You'll get a cookie when we get out of this! Listen to me Noam you have a serious mental illness. You are a serious danger to yourself and others. You need serious help!"
While Captain Daniella and her half brother Noam focus on her that gave Dave enough time to get out and used the radio in the fire car and Dave called in a 10-47 aka requesting police. There was also a loud sound and fire crackling sound so Dave called in a 10-75 aka a active fire.
Dave took a fire extinguisher and went inside of the warehouse again and he used the fire extinguisher and knocked Noam out and was able to save Captain Daniella but their was too much fire for the single fire extinguisher to put out. The two were able to save Noam as well and hand him over to the police.
"Thanks for the help." said Captain Daniella, "We kept overlooking the fires as ordinary and we just stopped labeling them as suspicious. Get checked out for smoke inhalation and I'll see you later."
Dave replied, "Yeah well next time don't underestimate a rookie.
After the fire the two overlooked the fire scene again and this time Noam had a trap to kill the two but he prematurely activated the trap that what called in firehouse 71 and it nearly killed a whole company.
After several weeks passed. Dave was reading a newspaper in the firehouse and read that Noam rather than face a trial he pleaded guilty to the 104 counts of arson. But the judge instead of putting him in a juvenile prison or prison he had Noam go to a mental health hospital and when he turns 18 he'll stay in the mental health hospital or if he been rehabilitated then he'll serve the 54 years in a maximum security prison instead of 60 years.
When Captain Daniella visited Firehouse Sixteen she went and thanked Dave again and got him a box of chocolate chip cookies but her mother and stepfather came by but her mom and stepdad came to scold her for putting their son in prison but Captain Daniella revealed that Noam isn't her stepdad son because her mother cheated on her first husband during the First Lebanon War and when he died the two emigrated here but never revealed she got pregnant by another man while her husband was in a war.
Noam maybe in a mental hospital but that didn't stop fires from happening and they still went on calls. But in 1998 Dave went over to Truck Company Sixteen and in 2001 he became a Captain which is under Lieutenant in the Fire Department Nation of Little Bird. He and fellow firefighter named Linda Richter got married in 2003 and from 2000 to now she's a member of the city Rescue Squad, Rescue 17 and like him she's a Captain as well but the two are the same age.