An editorial board consisting of UA professors chose 12 papers from 60 submitted works. Harvey Senior Staff Writer A UA researcher has found that the tear gas used by the FBI during the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas did not feed the fire and eventual explosion of the compound, as previously thought. By using computer models of the compound, Jerry Havens, professor of chemical engineering, was able to predict that the accumulations of tear gas were not concentrated enough to contribute to the fire, according to a UA news release. As an expert on gas dispersions modeling, Havens was called upon by the U.S. Attorney General's office in 1999 to contribute to the final report on the Waco incident. The inferno that killed 74 men, women and children in April 1993 was initially attributed to the combination of tear gas injected into the building by the FBI and the two pyrotechnic devices later fired into the building.
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