Gas Cans Seized In Warehouse Search

The arsonist entered the building without setting off the burglar alarm. A doorway appeared to have been pried open, but the damage was made on the wrong side.

Those are some of the details revealed in court papers Thursday regarding a warehouse fire that left four Seattle firefighters dead.

And they are part of the reason investigators are looking at Martin Pang - the 39-year-old son of the warehouse owners - as a person of interest in last month’s deadly blaze.

King County Superior Court Judge William Downing ordered the release of the search warrants and supporting documents at the request by two local television stations.

The documents, which had been sealed at investigators’ request, concern searches at the warehouse immediately after the blaze and at the home of business owners Harry and Mary Pang. A car and storage lockers used by Martin Pang also were searched.

Some of the evidence seized in the investigation included four fivegallon gasoline cans. Three of those cans were marked “for prints” in search warrant inventory lists.

Pang, a resident of Los Angeles since 1993, remained at large Thursday. His attorney, Allen Ressler, said Pang will surrender this week. Ressler’s office declined comment Thursday.

In a Jan. 21 affidavit, Detectives Steve O’Leary and Dave Tallman said investigators had determined the arsonist entered the warehouse basement “by entering the code into the alarm keypad. Firefighters who were first on the scene found that all doors not secured by a keypad were locked.”