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As Charleston continues to grapple with a string of arsons, The Post and Courier is looking into how the city handles and documents arson investigations.

Touching off the case of a 2002 fatal suspicious fire at 563 Rutledge Avenue, the paper looks into shortcomings of the Charleston Fire Department's old approaches to fire investigations, and improvements made over the last year.

Take a read here.

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