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November 13, 2009

Police Academy teaches about fire and polygraph

FORTY FORT – Residents participating in Thursday evening’s Pennsylvania State Police Citizens’ Police Academy learned about the organization’s polygraph and fire marshal units.

The first part of the class was on the fire marshal unit.

Trooper Ronald Jarocha, a member of the state police for 17 years, is one of two full-time fire marshals for Troop P, Wyoming. His job is to find out where the fire started and how it was caused.

Jarocha, who has investigated about 18 blazes in the past three months, is called out to fires that are suspicious, deadly or the cause is not known.

For the complete story, see Saturday's Times Leader.

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