A ringing phone before dawn sends a unique pair of investigators from their Middletown-area home to a fire north of Claymont. The Delaware native and his black Lab partner are the state's only K-9 Accelerant Detection Team. Each year, billions of dollars worth of property and hundreds of lives are lost nationally to arson.
Experts say investigation and prosecution help cut the arson rate.
Fire Marshal Willard F. Preston III recalled the first day Moose and Bush were on duty. A new class of state troopers formed a semi-circle for a demonstration by Moose and Bush. Tiny droplets of gas were put on a few officers' shoes. I didn't know what was going to happen. But Moose did his job.