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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Fire! To destroy all you've done!"''
|'''Fire''', ''The Crazy World of Arthur Brown''}}
Very much [[Truth in Television]]. Part of firefighter training is to be on the lookout for signs that fires might have been started to conceal another crime, such as noting if a window was broken before they put an axe through it to get into the building. Also known to happen in cases of insurance fraud.
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== Anime
* [[Mega Corp|Aoyama Pharmaceutical]] in ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' demolishes Sayara Yamanobe's secret lab soon after it is compromised in the first episode.
* Common in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' when the Men-In-Black are involved.
* [[Rurouni Kenshin]] - this was attempted on Shishio Makoto. It didn't kill him, but it did leave him covered head-to-toe with third degree burns.
* [[Triage X]] - The method the protagonists use to hide the evidence of their vigilante actions. Frequently involves destroying the entire (abandoned) city block.
* In ''[[
** Later he uses fiery deaths to dispose of {{spoiler|his girlfriend and Mello.}}
== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Identity Crisis]]'', when {{spoiler|Jean Loring accidentally kills Sue Dibny}}, she tries to cover it up by burning her body with a flame thrower.
* Lex Luthor does this to one of his own buildings at the beginning of ''[[
* In ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion (Fanfic)|Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' the OIS forensic team tries to find any evidence on the group who compromised the airport security on the day Shinji arrived. Problem: They are doing in the aftermath of battle, where one side, the NEG Army, was desperate enough to lob relatively small tactical nuclear warheads at the other side, the Third Harbinger Asherah, who casually violates spacetime and reality while pwning the humans with ease. Suffice to say, there is not much to dig.▼
== Fan Works ==
▲* In ''[[
== Film ==
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* In ''[[Outbreak]]'', the military threatens to bomb the town in order to contain the virus.
* In ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'', Captain Ramios is trying to cover up disobeying his orders. The evidence is the orders in question.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the sequel, where Moriarty succeeds not only in destroying the room where the crime took place, but killing everyone who was in the room at the time by blowing them up. But Holmes manages to figure out that it was a cover to hide the shooting of the owner of a weapons factory (the owner himself was shot in the head by a sniper seconds before the explosion happened).
*** [[Fridge Logic|Which begs the question, why even bother to shoot the guy if everyone else in the room was killed by the bomb?]]
== Literature ==
* In the novel ''Jericho Falls'' the U.S. government {{spoiler|arranges a fully loaded airborne tanker to crash on a small town, destroying it in the massive fireball to cover up their killing of everyone there}}.
* In the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[The Green Mile]]'', Eduard Delacroix killed a young girl, then tried to burn her body to cover it up. The fire spreads to the rest of that apartment, killing six more. Thus, he ends up on Death Row.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* In the [[Dean Koontz]] novel ''Sole Survivor'', an NTSB engineer named Minh Tran analyzes the flight data recorder from a crashed plane, but someone doesn't want the public to know what's on it. He is killed and the recorder is destroyed in what is described as "an impossibly intense fire."
* In the [[Alastair Reynolds]] novel, ''[[The Prefect]]'', the villain arranges it so that the exhaust from a starship drive would destroy a habitat where something nefarious was occuring.
* The criminal of the second book in the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]'' is actually trying to destroy evidence that he extorted money. To make it look less suspect, he burns several other building before going for the one he wants.
* In the first season of ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* In the first season of ''[[Twenty Four|24]],'' Keith Palmer's therapist dies in a fire as part of a government conspiracy. (It was probably arson. But you can't prove that.)
* In [[The X-Files]]'s pilot, Mulder's motel room is burned to the ground to destroy evidence of alien abductions in Oregon.
* This has been done a few times in NCIS. Once, to cover up the death of {{spoiler|Jenny Shepard, who died in California}}, by making it look like an unfortunate accident at home so that the newsmedia doesn't learn about the true cause of death. Another time, it is revealed that members of Moussad who are compromised will call in special teams that cover up evidence of the operative in question by staging a fire. In a third instance, a hostage is placed on a pressure plate that threatens to blow up everyone and everything in the room, including computer banks that contain considerable evidence if the hostage is removed (the hostage is safely removed in a manner referencing one of the Indiana Jones flicks and returned to safety, but the aforementioned evidence went up in smoke).
* In [[Nikita (TV series)|Nikita]], Division uses this method to remove themselves from the scene of a crashed drug smuggling plane.
** Division also uses a large fire to cover up their involvement in {{spoiler|the murder of the Udinov family}}.
** and Nikita herself uses this method {{spoiler|in the finale, to destroy her safehouse}}.
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** In the [[Korean Series]] ''[[Twinkle Twinkle]]'' Granny's secret stash of loan shark contracts, money, and object d'art are detroyed by fire at her hidden warehouse.
* An episode of "The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo" revolved around that episode's culprit burning down houses to hide the fact that they were illegally harboring endangered animals inside the houses.
* [[
* Played for laughs in ''[[Arrested Development]]''. When Michael discovers that a storage unit his father tried to keep him from finding out about has burned down, it doesn't take him long to connect it to the recently released arsonist who's been set up with a job at the banana stand (which he [[Funny Moments|readily admits to]]).
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': Near the end, [[The Government]] sending in Special Forces to take out everything in the city, including you. A similar operation in the past targeted the [[Big Bad|Big Bad's]] village.
* ''[[
* ''[[Half Life]] 1'''s response to the Black Mesa Incident: [[Nuke'Em]]. This probably wasn't their first choice, but while the scientists (save one [[Badass Bookworm|Dr. Freeman]]) were easy to silence, the aliens the accident conjured up weren't.
* ''[[Heavy Rain]]'': {{spoiler|Scott Shelby}} burns a barrel full of evidence implicating him as the Origami Killer.
* In the famous scene of ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' {{spoiler|Shepherd}} orders his men to do this with {{spoiler|the body of Ghost and the main character, who is still somewhat conscious enough to see Shepherd throw his burning cigar into the gasoline soaked ditch.}}
* In ''[[Max Payne (
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** When Max actually reaches the bunker and finds out exactly what Horne and her people have been mixed up in (as well as the truth about {{spoiler|his family's murder}}), he eventually has to escape the facility before it blows sky high.
== Web Comics ==
* Subverted in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', when someone wants to try this but a more [[Genre Savvy]] conspirator points out just how [[Revealing Coverup|suspicious]] that convenient fire would be. It can be found [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060802 here] and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060804 here].
** Merlot tries this as well, to destroy information about Agatha. Since one of the things he had to burn to destroy this knowledge was the people who had read the files, it is not surprising he got sent to Castle Heterodyne anyway.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* After the BP oil spill, there were several records of
* On August 27, 2011, 53 bodies believed to be Libyan civilians arrested by pro-Qaddafi loyalists for interrogation were found in the remains of a warehouse, which had been burnt by the pro-Qaddafi forces to keep them from rebel forces. There may have actually been 150 dead.
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