1. BC-1 Berryman refuses to allow any defensive water on clearly visible merchandise burning to the right of The Sub's front door – He instead uses a hose directed to the left to blow entrained air in to the left to fan and exacerbate the fire. The air is to help burn through the roof so the ladder truck can put water on the fire from above without anyone going inside.
2. It is this action that directly causes and is 100% responsible for the fire getting into Square Deal.
3. BC-1 Berryman has had Square Deal "softened" with instructions to have doors and openings left open – This creates drafts and helps to spread the fire and is the opposite of San Luis Obispo City Fire – Emergency Operations Manual procedures.
4. BC-1 Berryman refuses to assign R.I.C./F.A.S.T. personnel which would allow interior operations that would have easily stopped the fire from spreading into Square Deal.
5. BC-1 Berryman refuses to defend the apartment defensively through the windows or door which would have stopped the fire in the apartment, and it would not have burned the main dock or comic locker.
6. BC-1 Berryman opens the big refrigerator door to the comic locker to allow for air circulation needed for a fire to move into the big sealed up refrigerator with only one other opening. He hides that he did this by not rolling up the big roll-up shipping door in the rear that would have exposed his action. This was the only roll-up door he did not have opened.
7. Before the fire is in Square Deal, BC-1 Berryman has over eight vent holes cut into the roof, including on both sides of an interior firewall.
8. BC-1 Berryman repeatedly has overhead hoses put water and entrained AIR through cut roof openings to oxygenate the underside of the roof fire.
9. BC-1 Berryman calls for every truck available within ten minutes of arriving even though the actual window box fire was put out at ten minutes and it was only a small fire burning in the front above the window box. He was planning a big fire from the beginning and never considered just extinguishing the fire.
10. BC-1 Berryman NEVER checked The Sub for people. Unless he talked to the "off-duty firefighter" who we feel is the arsonist, (who disappeared after clearing The Sub and Square Deal of people), how did he know nobody was inside?
11. BC-1 Berryman declares to the victim, 12 minutes into the fire, that he will take absolutely NO RISK for our businesses and property at this fire. He refuses the owner's information about the buildings and does not even have the front door opened to look inside for over 30 minutes.
12. BC-1 Berryman has the ladder truck crew going onto the roof to cut holes and spread the fire before the first fire truck arrives and puts the window box out with a 3-second stream. Four minutes after the original window box fire is out, BC-1 Berryman has the roof crew cut two 8'x8' holes on the opposite side of the roof to spread and accelerate the fire.
13. BC-1 Berryman is responsible for documenting the fire, yet his "narrative" of The Sub fire is among the shortest and he documents nothing for the entire 10-hour Square Deal fire.

Every act BC-1 Berryman takes is consistent with an intentional burndown. He does nothing during both The Sub and Square Deal fires that would inhibit, slow down, stop, or minimize the fire.

Every command and action BC-1 Berryman makes causes things to get worse. He intentionally causes the fire to intensify, spread, and grow!

BC-1 Berryman is either the most inexperienced, incompetent, and unprofessional leader there is or he does know what he is doing and he is an "arsonist of convenience." Just because he accomplishes his dirty deed and has his fun using City equipment and personnel, it should not relieve him of the responsibility for his illegal and inappropriate actions.

BC-1 Berryman burns down and destroys two local businesses: One that should have been saved with only the front room damaged and one that should not have been involved in the fire at all. No one questions why it is okay for him to do that instead of just put out the fire.

BC-1 Berryman's past record shows he always burns the structure in the name of fireman safety and his own personal satisfaction. If BC-1 Berryman was proud of saving structures, he would have saved some.

If BC-1 Berryman shows up for "your" fire, you better have your "treasures" secure because where you see looming disaster, he sees an opportunity for a big fire and to be a hero. He can't do that if he just rushes in and puts out the fire.