Shortly before a fire destroyed the cabin in which accused cop-killer Christopher Dorner was seemingly holed up, Los Angeles police officers made numerous references to “burners” over the radio, with at least one officer appearing to shout “fucking burn this motherfucking house down. … fucking burn this motherfucker.” 
 
 The latter comment was shouted so loudly that it was picked up inadvertently by KCAL9, the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, and broadcast live on the air. 
 
 “Police officers understandably [are] upset,” an anchor says haltingly, after the audio feed was apparently cut. 
 
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 A recording from an LAPD police scanner pulled from an unofficial Internet stream also includes numerous references to “burners,” which is police slang for tear gas canisters. 
 
 “Alright, we’re gonna go ahead with the plan with the burners,” one officer says. 
 
 “Copy,” replies another. (RELATED: Internet users voice sick support for Dorner) 
 
 “Like we talked about,” the first officer says. 
 
 “The burners are deployed, and we have a fire,” another voice says shortly afterwards. The dispatcher repeats that statement. 
 
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 Police officials late in the day said a burned body had been found in the cabin, but they did not confirm whether it was Dorner. It remains unclear whether — as some news reports and analysts have speculated — police or Dorner set the fire intentionally, or if it was an accident precipitated, at least in part, by ammunition stores and various nonlethal tools available to police. 
 
 Dorner had been on the run for several days after waging something of a guerrilla warfare campaign against the LAPD, which he claimed wrongfully terminated him after he filed an excessive force complaint against his training officer, who is now a sergeant in the LAPD. The department claimed Dorner’s complaint was unfounded, and a Los Angeles court later upheld his firing. 
 
 The ex-cop posted a rambling manifesto that circulated shortly after he began his brazen, deadly attacks on people associated with the LAPD. (RELATED: Suspected California cop-killer says he’s a fan of Obama and Piers Morgan) 
 
 The LAPD announced over the weekend that it would reopen its investigation into Dorner’s termination. The department took criticism for that decision, as well as for shooting at numerous civilians in recent days whom officers suspected of being Dorner. 
 
 Two of those civilians were shot, but they are expected to make a full recovery. 
 
 Follow Gregg on Twitter ||||| Cops fired incendiary tear gas into a suspected killer’s hideout, igniting an inferno that helped end one of the most intense manhunts in California history, officials said today. 
 
 Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, and pursuing San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies were in a fierce gun battle yesterday when the accused killer took shelter inside a cabin near Big Bear Lake. 
 
 Dorner allegedly shot two deputies — one who later died — before SWAT officers surrounded the cabin. 
 
 Sheriff John McMahon insisted the flammable tear gas wasn’t fired to set a deadly fire. 
 
 “I can tell you, it was not on purpose,” McMahon said today. “We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out.” 
 
 The fallen deputy was identified today as 35-year-old Jeremiah MacKay, according to the Inland Empire Emerald Society — a non-profit that supports survivors of cops killed in duty. 
 
 Det. MacKay was on an early patrol this past Saturday morning when he told The Associated Press that Dorner could be anywhere. 
 
 “This one you just never know if the guy’s going to pop out, or where he’s going to pop out,” MacKay said. 
 
 “We’re hoping this comes to a close without more casualties. The best thing would be for him to give up.” 
 
 A SWAT team then came on the scene and was met with a “constant barrage of gunfire” from Dorner, a law enforcement source told the Los Angeles Times. 
 
 Cops first fired traditional tear gas into the cabin, but that didn’t immediately bring a surrender, officials said. 
 
 That’s when they opted for the more powerful CS gas canisters, which can severely irritate a target’s eyes and create an extreme choking feeling. The gas also has a much high chance to ignite flames. 
 
 “He put himself in that position,” the lawman said, explaining the cops’ decision to use flammable gas. “There weren’t a lot of options.” 
 
 The cabin burned down and police recovered remains believed to be Dorner’s. 
 
 Investigators also found Dorner’s California driver’s license, further bolstering their belief the suspected killer is dead. 
 
 As the cabin went up in smoke, one gunshot was heard from inside. No one was spotted leaving the cabin. 
 
 “There’s a reasonable belief it’s the body of Christopher Dorner,” LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told CNN today. 
 
 Dorner, 33, had said in a lengthy manifesto that he expected to die in one final, violent confrontation with cops. And if the body discovered in that charred cabin is him, then that’s exactly what happened. 
 
 “This is really not a celebration,” LAPD Lt. Andrew Neiman said this morning, explaining the relief cops feel about Dorner’s apparent end. 
 
 LAPD officers used the Internet to monitor radio chatter during the firefight. 
 
 “It was horrifying to listen to that firefight and to hear those words. ‘Officer down’ is the most gut-wrenching experience that you can have as a police officer,” Neiman said. 
 
 Throughout the search for Dorner, LA police stood guard around the homes of 50 potential targets of the rogue officer. 
 
 By this morning, that protection detail had been reduced to about a dozen families, police said. 
 
 “Those [protection details] will remain in place … until that investigation in San Bernardino is concluded and we have a type of positive identification,” Neiman said. “We still have some individuals in this department in great fear.” 
 
 The apparent end came very close to where his trail went cold six days earlier when his burning pickup truck — with guns and camping gear inside — was abandoned with a broken axle on a fire road in the San Bernardino National Forest near the ski resort town of Big Bear Lake. 
 
 His footprints led away from the truck and vanished on frozen soil. 
 
 With no sign of him and few leads, police offered a $1 million reward to bring him to justice and end a “reign of terror.” 
 
 In his manifesto, Dorner had promised to bring “warfare” to the LAPD and their kin. 
 
 Just a few hours after police announced Tuesday that they had fielded more than 1,000 tips with no sign of Dorner, word came that a man matching his description had tied up two people in a Big Bear Lake cabin, stole their car and fled. 
 
 California Department of Fish and Wildlife wardens, who were part of the search detail, spotted the purple Nissan that had been reported stolen going in the opposite direction and gave chase, department spokesman Lt. Patrick Foy said. 
 
 The driver looked like Dorner. 
 
 They lost the purple car after it passed a school bus and turned onto a side road, but two other Fish and Wildlife patrols turned up that road a short time later, and saw a white pickup truck speeding erratically toward them. 
 
 “He took a close look at the driver and realized it was the suspect,” Foy said. 
 
 It’s believed Dorner had just carjacked Rick Heltebrake, who escaped with his life and dog. 
 
 ” `I don’t want to hurt you. Start walking and take your dog,’ ” Heltebrake quoted Dorner as saying. 
 
 Heltebrake grabbed his 3-year-old Dalmatian Suni and let Dorner take the truck. He heard gunfire moments later. 
 
 The carjacking victim said he and Dorner were both remarkably collected during the brief, tense face-off. 
 
 “He wasn’t wild-eyed, just almost professional,” he said. “He was on a mission.” 
 
 “It was clear I wasn’t part of his agenda and there were other people down the road that were part of his agenda,” Heltebrake added. 
 
 Once in Heltebrake’s truck, Dorner allegedly rolled down a window and opened fire, striking a warden’s truck more than a dozen times. 
 
 One of the wardens returned fire as Dorner rounded a curve in the road. It’s unclear if Dorner was wounded, but the stolen pickup careened off the road and crashed in a snow bank. 
 
 Dorner then ran to the cabin where he barricaded himself and shot it out with San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies. 
 
 The firefight with deputies happened shortly after 1:30 p.m. PST, and a local CBS news crew just happened to be near that final showdown. 
 
 The crew recorded audio of gunfire and these apparent screams from deputies: 
 
 “Burn it down!” 
 
 “Shoot the gas!” 
 
 “Get the gas!” 
 
 “Burning gas, burning gas!” 
 
 Until yesterday, authorities weren’t sure Dorner was still in Big Bear Lake, where his pickup was found within walking distance from the cabin where he hid. 
 
 Even door-to-door searches failed to turn up any trace of him in the quiet, bucolic neighborhood where children were playing in the snow last night. 
 
 With many searchers leaving town amid speculation he was long gone, the command center across the street was taken down Monday. 
 
 Ron Erickson, whose house is only about quarter mile away, said officers interrogated him to make sure he wasn’t being held hostage. Erickson himself had been keeping a nervous watch on his neighborhood, but he never saw the hulking Dorner. 
 
 “I looked at all the cabins that backed the national forest and I just didn’t think to look at the one across from the command post,” he said. “It didn’t cross my mind. It just didn’t.” 
 
 Police said Dorner began his run on Feb. 6 after they connected the slayings of a former police captain’s daughter and her fiance with his angry manifesto. 
 
 Dorner blamed LAPD Capt. Randal Quan for providing poor representation before the police disciplinary board that fired him for filing a false report. 
 
 Dorner, who is black, claimed in his online rant that he was the subject of racism by the department and was targeted for doing the right thing. 
 
 LAPD chief Charlie Beck, who initially dismissed Dorner’s allegations, said he would reopen the investigation into his firing — not to appease the ex-officer, but to restore confidence in the black community, which had a long fractured relationship with police that has improved in recent years. 
 
 Dorner vowed to get even with those who had wronged him as part of his plan to reclaim his good name. 
 
 “You’re going to see what a whistleblower can do when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!” the rant said. “You have awoken a sleeping giant.” 
 
 Dorner allegedly killed Capt. Quan’s daughter, Cal State Fullerton assistant women’s basketball coach Monica Quan, and her fiancee Keith Lawrence on Feb. 3. 
 
 The couple was found fatally shot inside their car in Irvine, Calif. 
 
 Dorner was named as a suspect the night of Feb. 6 and hours later, the 6-foot, 270-pounder former cop — described as armed and “extremely dangerous” — tried unsuccessfully to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico. 
 
 After leaving a trail of evidence, Dorner headed north where he opened fire on two patrol cars in Riverside County, shooting three cops, authorities said. 
 
 He allegedly killed Riverside police officer Michael Crain, who was in his squad car stopped at a red light. 
 
 Police in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and along the US-Mexico border went on high alert looking for the former officer. 
 
 Several hours after Crain’s slaying, Dorner’s burning truck was found in the rugged Big Bear mountains, about 80 miles east of LA. 
 
 Only a short distance from the truck, he spent his final days with a front-row seat to the search mobilized right outside. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| Unconfirmed police audio from the standoff Tuesday evening with alleged cop-killer Chris Dorner suggests the fire in the cabin where the suspect was holed up may have been started by the police, the Guardian speculates. 
 
 Update Feb. 13, 2013, 7:30 p.m.: 
 
 San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon that the fire was not set on purpose. "We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out," McMahon said. However, McMahon said one type of tear gas used was "pyrotechnic" and acknowledged that it "does generate a lot of heat." McMahon said the fire "erupted" after police launched the pyrotechnic canisters, which are called "burners," into the cabin. Watch video of the press conference here. 
 
 Previously reported: 
 
 The audio's veracity could not be confirmed. 
 
 Click the video above to hear the police audio from KCAL-TV. 
 
 In addition, a video that has surfaced on YouTube appears to include another recording of police audio from Tuesday's standoff. In the audio, which could not be independently confirmed, a voice says, "We're gonna go forward with the plan, with the burn ... Like we talked about." 
 
 A short while later a male voice says: "Seven burners deployed and we have a fire." A female voice then responds: "Copy. Seven burners deployed and we have a fire." (Listen to the full audio here.) 
 
 Lending credence to the audio tapes is the reporting of journalist and author Max Blumenthal, who as The Guardian notes, was listening to the police scanners on Tuesday and live-tweeting what he heard. 
 
 Hard to decipher on San Bernadino Sheriff scanner now: "We're gonna go ahead w/the plan w/the burner... Like we talked about." — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 12, 2013 
 
 BREAKING: PD scanners right now: "The burner's deployed and we have a fire." Sheriffs have set #Dorner cabin on fire or so it seems. — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 13, 2013 
 
 The Huffington Post has reached out to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department for comment. We will update this piece if more information becomes available. 
 
 A charred body was later found inside the cabin, according to the Associated Press. One San Bernardino sheriff's deputy was killed in the standoff with Dorner near Big Bear Mountain on Tuesday. Another was injured and is currently in surgery, the Los Angeles Times notes. ||||| Story highlights Slain officer's widow thanks mourners: "A lot of people loved Mike" 
 
 Villaraigosa says police have a "reasonable belief" that Dorner died in a mountain standoff 
 
 Authorities have not conclusively identified the body found near Big Bear Lake 
 
 Authorities said Wednesday they are reasonably sure that the body found inside the burned cabin near Big Bear Lake, California, is that of Christopher Dorner , the rogue ex-cop who had been pursuing a vendetta against his fellow officers. 
 
 "We believe that this investigation is over, at this point, and we'll just need to move on from here," San Bernardino Sheriff John McMahon told reporters. 
 
 Although the description and behavior of the man who was killed are consistent with Dorner, officials "cannot absolutely, positively confirm it was him," McMahon said. 
 
 "We're not currently involved in a manhunt," he said. "Our coroner's division is trying to confirm the identity through forensics." 
 
 Authorities say Dorner launched a guerrilla war against the Los Angeles Police Department over what he considered his unfair dismissal in 2009. 
 
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 McMahon identified a sheriff's detective who was fatally shot Tuesday by the man presumed to have been Dorner as Jeremiah MacKay. MacKay, 35, was a 15-year veteran who was married with two children, a 7-year-old daughter and a 4-month-old son. 
 
 Another officer has undergone "a couple of different surgeries" after being wounded in the shootout. "He's in good spirits and should make a full recovery after a number of additional surgeries," McMahon said. 
 
 The two men were ambushed Tuesday when they responded to a report of a vehicle stolen by a suspect matching Dorner's description, McMahon said. 
 
 "It was like a war zone, and our deputies continued to go into that area and tried to neutralize and stop the threat," McMahon said. "The rounds kept coming, but our deputies didn't give up." 
 
 The suspect then fled into a nearby vacant cabin, which caught fire after police shot tear gas canisters into it, McMahon said. 
 
 Although the canisters included pyrotechnic tear gas, which generates heat, "We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out," McMahon said. 
 
 It wasn't clear when a formal identification could be made of the charred remains found in the cabin about 100 miles east of Los Angeles after Tuesday's shootout with police. Until then, "a lot of apprehension" remains in the ranks of the LAPD, Lt. Andy Neiman said. 
 
 'A very trying time' for the LAPD 
 
 "It's been a very trying time over the last couple of weeks for all of those involved and all those families, friends and everybody that has been touched by this incident," he said. 
 
 On Wednesday, police from around the Los Angeles area and beyond gathered to bury Michael Crain, who was among the four people fatally shot, allegedly by the 33-year-old former Navy officer. 
 
 Dorner also killed the daughter of a former LAPD captain and her fiance and shot three other officers, including Crain's partner, police say. 
 
 A squad of bagpipers led Crain's flag-draped casket through a cordon of blue uniforms into a church in Riverside, the Los Angeles suburb where the 34-year-old police officer had served 11 years on the force. 
 
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 The mourners inside the church included California Gov. Jerry Brown, his Highway Patrol chief and law enforcement from a number of other agencies around the region. 
 
 "I knew that communities would reach out, and I knew a lot of people loved Mike," Regina Crain, the slain officer's widow, told them. "And I knew that I would have support no matter what. But I really did not realize the sheer scale of this, and how many people are touched by his life. It gives me really great comfort to see that, and I want to thank you all." 
 
 Investigators began scouring the mountains February 7, when investigators found Dorner's scorched pickup. Police, sheriff's deputies and federal agents swarmed into the area, working through a weekend blizzard, but the trail was cold for days. 
 
 On Sunday, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said it had scaled back the search. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a $1 million reward for information leading to Dorner's arrest and conviction, spurring hundreds of tips. 
 
 The trail picked up again on Tuesday, when Karen and Jim Reynolds came upon a man who looked like Dorner in their house across the street from the sheriff's command center in the Big Bear area. He tied them up and took off in their purple Nissan, according to police. 
 
 The unit had been unoccupied since January 29 and they had last done some work on it on February 6, Karen Reynolds told reporters. 
 
 They returned on Tuesday to continue working on the apartment, she said. "We had come into the living room and he opened the door and came out at us," she said. 
 
 "He yelled, 'Stay calm,'" Jim Reynolds said. "When he jumped out and hollered, 'Stay calm!' Karen screamed and turned and started running and he ran after her and he caught her on the staircase and brought her back." 
 
 Dorner tried to calm them, the couple said. "He had his gun drawn the whole time," Karen Reynolds said. 
 
 He ordered them to lie down and bound their hands behind their backs with plastic ties, telling them he would not kill them, but needed transportation out of Big Bear, they said. 
 
 He then gagged them, put pillowcases on their heads and left, they said. 
 
 Throughout, he was calm, they said. 
 
 "He said I don't have a problem with you, I just want to clear my name," Jim Reynolds said. 
 
 The man then took their 2011 Nissan Rogue, they said. 
 
 It was not clear how long he had been there, a bag of carrots and milk were in the refrigerator, they said. 
 
 At around 12:20 p.m., some 15 minutes after he left, they freed themselves and called 911 to report the incident, they said. 
 
 "We're very happy to be alive," Karen Reynolds said. "I didn't wish him dead though ... I prayed for him a lot and I'm praying for his family now." 
 
 A 'guy with a big gun' 
 
 At 12:45 p.m., Fish and Wildlife wardens spotted the SUV and began pursuing it. Dorner tried to evade them by swerving around a pair of empty school buses and ducking down a side road, but crashed the Nissan. 
 
 Rick Heltebrake, a camp ranger, said he was driving when he saw the crashed purple vehicle -- and then something terrifying. 
 
 "Here comes this guy with a big gun, and I knew who it was right away," Heltebrake told CNN affiliate KTLA. "He just came out of the snow at me with his gun at my head. He said, 'I don't want to hurt you. Just get out of the car and start walking.' " 
 
 Heltebrake said the man let him take his dog and walk away with his hands up. Dorner took off -- but was soon spotted by the wildlife wardens again, and a shootout ensued. 
 
 "Not more than 10 seconds later, I heard a loud round of gunfire," Heltebrake said. "Ten to 20 rounds, maybe. I found out later what that was all about." 
 
 Dorner shot up one of the wardens' trucks; the warden returned fire with a rifle, firing 20 shots, the Deparment of Fish and Wildlife said. Dorner fled to a nearby cabin and got into another shootout, this time with the San Bernardino County deputies, killing one and wounded another. 
 
 Some of the firefight between police and the suspect was captured live on the telephone of a reporter for CNN affiliates KCBS and KCAL. Police in Los Angeles listened live over police scanners broadcast on the Internet, LAPD Lt. Andy Neiman said. 
 
 "It was horrifying to listen to that firefight," he said. "To hear those words, 'officer down,' is the most gut-wrenching experience you can have as a police officer, because you know what that means." 
 
 Audio from a Los Angeles television station captured the sound of someone early in the standoff shouting, "Burn it down ... burn that goddamn house down. Burn it down." It's not clear who used those words. 
 
 But the order to use smoke canisters -- "burners" -- didn't come for another two hours, according to San Bernardino County sheriff's radio traffic. 
 
 "Seven burners deployed, and we have a fire," one officer reported at 4:16 p.m. (7:16 p.m. ET). 
 
 Five minutes later, a single gunshot was reported from inside the house. A senior officer ordered units around the cabin, "Stand by. Maintain your discipline." About a minute after that, officers reported ammunition exploding inside. 
 
 Sheriff's investigators confirmed overnight that they had found charred human remains among the ashes. 
 
 Dorner cheered in some quarters 
 
 Dorner had vowed to kill police officers to avenge what he called his unfair termination. He was fired after accusing his training officer of kicking a suspect during a July 2007 arrest, a complaint the LAPD concluded was unfounded. 
 
 The department accused him of lying to superiors and to internal affairs investigators and forced him out in January 2009. Dorner challenged his dismissal in court but was unsuccessful. 
 
 Dorner was first named a suspect in two shooting deaths on February 3: Monica Quan, the daughter of his police union representative, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence. 
 
 Police say he killed Crain and wounded Crain's partner in an ambush on their patrol car February 7. They say he also wounded an LAPD officer who chased him in the suburban city of Corona, California. 
 
 In a manifesto announcing his planned rampage, Dorner said nothing had changed in the LAPD since its scandals of the 1990s , the Rodney King beating and the Rampart police corruption case. Those allegations have struck a chord with some who say that, despite the four killings, Dorner was seeking justice. ||||| A six-day hunt for a former policeman suspected of a killing spree in California ended on Wednesday when a cabin in the mountains above LA went up in flames. 
 
 A body suspected to be that of Christopher Dorner was found in the ruins of the building. Dorner is suspected to have killed four people in a vendetta against LA police officers and their families; the fourth was an officer from San Bernardino County sheriff's department killed in a shootout at the cabin on Tuesday night. 
 
 Dorner had threatened to bring "warfare" to the LAPD, having claimed he had been the subject of racism when he was sacked from his job as a policeman there. Rory Carroll has the full story. 
 
 It is not yet clear how the fire at the cabin was started, but some evidence seems to suggest it may have been as a consequence of the tear gas fired by police. 
 
 A recording purporting to be of the conversation on police scanners as officers surrounded the cabin where Dorner was hiding seems to show police discussing "going forward with the plan, with, er, with the burn" or "burner". 
 
 The term "burner" had led to speculation that the fire had been started deliberately, but burner is thought to be police slang for tear gas, and may refer to "BurnSafe" containers for CS gas canisters, made by the Covina-Thomas Company in Covina, California. On its website the company lists among its recent customers the LAPD, although not the San Bernardo County sheriff's office, which led the raid. 
 
 Following the fire that killed 76 Branch Davidian cult members during the Waco siege in Texas there was a long period of controversy over whether the blaze had been started by military tear gas cartridges. 
 
 The Guardian cannot confirm that the audio track is a genuine recording of the police scanner. 
 
 At around the 1min mark in the recording, a male voice says: 
 
 All right, Steve, we're gonna go, er, we're gonna go forward with the plan, with, er, with the burn [or burner]. We want it, er, like we talked about. 
 
 He then adds shortly afterwards: 
 
 Seven burners deployed and we have a fire. 
 
 A female voice responds: 
 
 Copy. Seven burners deployed and we have a fire. 
 
 At around 2min 20sec, a male voice says: 
 
 Guys, be ready on the No 4 side. We have fire in the front. He might come out the back. 
 
 At around 2min 50sec, a male voice requests a fire engine. 
 
 There is then a report of a shot fired from within the residence, followed by a sharp noise of some kind. 
 
 This video, which purports to be a recording of KCAL TV coverage of the raid on the cabin, seems to include the sound of police shouting: "We're going to burn him out," and "Burn this motherfucker!" 
 
 Journalist Max Blumenthal claims to have been listening to the police scanners through an iPhone app at the time and has put together a timeline of events. The key tweets match the YouTube video purporting to be the police scanner: 
 
 Hard to decipher on San Bernadino Sheriff scanner now: "We're gonna go ahead w/the plan w/the burner... Like we talked about." — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 12, 2013 
 
 BREAKING: PD scanners right now: "The burner's deployed and we have a fire." Sheriffs have set #Dorner cabin on fire or so it seems. — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 13, 2013 
 
 SB County System 6,7,8 scanner: "We have fire in the front and it may come out the back" #Dorner — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 13, 2013 
 
 According to the Associated Press, writing from Big Bear Lake, California, where the incident took place, the police attacked the cabin like so: 
 
 A SWAT team surrounded the cabin and used an armoured vehicle to break out the cabin windows, said a law enforcement official who requested anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The officers then pumped a gas into the cabin and blasted a message over a loudspeaker: "Surrender or come out." The armoured vehicle then tore down each of the cabin's four walls. A single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, the law enforcement official told the Associated Press. 
 
 
 
 The LA Times describes it like this: 
 
 Just before 5pm, authorities smashed the cabin's windows, pumped in tear gas and called for the suspect to surrender. They got no response. Then, using a demolition vehicle, they tore down the cabin's walls one by one. When they reached the last wall, they heard a gunshot. Then the cabin burst into flames. 
 
 A spokesman for the San Bernardino County sheriff's office refused to answer any media questions about the fire or Dorner's death until the press conference the police force is holding on Wednesday at 4pm LA time (midnight GMT). 
 
 Note: This article was redrafted at 5.30pm GMT on 13 February 2013 due to new information about the possible meaning of the word "burner" coming to light. ||||| Tweet with a location 
 
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– Did police start the fire that may have consumed the body of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner? In police audio broadcast on KCAL yesterday, officers can be heard apparently yelling, "Burn it down" or "Burn him out." Another YouTube video claims to be a police scanner recording, and it features a voice saying, "We're gonna go forward with the plan, with the burn ... Like we talked about." Later, someone says, "Seven burners deployed and we have a fire." But, the Huffington Post notes, neither recording has been confirmed or explained at this point, and the Daily Caller claims "burner" is actually slang for tear gas. Journalist Max Blumenthal was listening to police scanners at the time and live-tweeting many similar "burner" comments that he heard, the Guardian reports, including: "We have fire in the front and it may come out the back." In other Dorner updates, the New York Post reports that his driver's license was found inside the burned cabin. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told CNN that "there's a reasonable belief" the remains found inside the cabin also belong to Dorner, but the LAPD refuses to "speculate at this point," and protection details are still covering some LAPD officers believed to be targets until the body is identified. Click to see how two maids triggered Dorner's downfall.