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Four young sisters in the Hollywood area were severely burned Friday when a parked car in which they apparently were playing with matches suddenly burst into flames, fire officials said. The father and grandfather of the girls suffered third-degree burns on their hands as they pulled the children from the blazing auto.
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“4 Sisters Badly Burned Playing With Matches,” Los Angeles Times (9 April 1983), Part II, p. 1.
Helen G. Smith, “Mom, Son Injured: 2 Children Killed in Norwalk Blaze,” Long Beach Independent Press Telegram (4 April 1983), p. A-3.
San Bernardino County, Criminal Justice Profile, 1981, State of California, Bureau of Criminal Statistics, Sacramento, California.
Ibid.
D. Kafry, Fire Survival Skills: Who Plays with Matches? Technical report for Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1978.
Ibid.
T. A. Vandersall and J. M. Weiner, “Children Who Set Fires,” Archives of General Psychiatry 22 (1970), 63–71.
B. Nurcombe, “Children Who Set Fires,” Medical Journal of Australia (April 1964), 577–584.
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Wooden, W.S., Berkey, M.L. (1984). “Playing-with-Matches” Firesetters. In: Children and Arson. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9403-1_4
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