Captain David M. Pagan

When you consider what we do for others, we bear a disproportionately large share of the hardships in life," said Seattle Fire Department Capt. David Pagan, another longtime friend who also served in the Army and Navy."People die performing their jobs.It builds a bond; it builds a mutual respect you carry around with you all the time."

Knowing that Michael's parents were overcome with grief, Pagan and Lundquist have planned every detail of today's funeral - from the motorcade procession to the 21-gun salute at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.
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Their help is the least they can do, Pagan and Lundquist said, to honor a boy they watched grow into a man. After all, Michael was already part of their firefighting family by birth.
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And, when one of them falls, said Pagan, the longtime friend, it's important to honor them and their families.
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A couple of hours later, Pagan pulled out of the funeral-home parking lot with Washington in the front-passenger seat.

Sign in logs for January 14, 15, 16, and 21, 2003, show that someone signed in on those dates using the name David McIntosh, David M., or just David, and, in each case, the date of birth October 30, 1984.
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23. I have talked with Captain David Pagan of the Seattle Fire Department's Fire Investigation Unit about other fires or attempted fires at McDonald's restaurants in the Seattle area.Captain Pagan has reviewed SFD's records and has told me that the fire that occurred on January 20, 2003 at the McDonald's restaurant by the Space Needle is the only known Seattle-area McDonald's fire in recent years.I also have talked with an owner/operator of five McDonald's restaurants in the Seattle area, and with the Security Manager for McDonald's' Seattle-area stores.

State codes require that departments learn the cause of all fires, Fire Investigation Unit Capt. David Pagan said.

If the cause is obvious -- food left on a stove, for example -- responding fire crews can make that report.

But when the fire causes death or injury, was clearly arson or firefighters can't determine the cause, then the investigators are called to the scene.

Statistics show that in 40 percent of the cases, arson will be the cause.On average, there will be one arson a day somewhere in Seattle, Pagan said.