"If I really think about it about it, how they were in a building and fire came in and they had no way out, it's a horrible thing," Martin said.Clive Doyle wrote a book about the siege and says after all these years he still believes in their leader David Koresh, who also died at the compound. As the announcement was being made, FBI agents using unarmed military vehicles with booms mounted on them began to insert the riot control agent into the compound by ramming holes into the sides of the structure and then using devices mounted on the booms to spray the riot control agent into the holes in the walls. The FBI was also having an internal dispute about tactics and strategy for ending the standoff, according to Gary Noesner, who was one of the FBI negotiators involved in the case.“There was the negotiation team that wanted to basically engage in dialogue and convince them to come out to share with the world what they thought about things,” Noesner told Megyn Kelly in January.
Branch Davidian survivors speak at Waco Siege 25th Anniversary Memorial ... -- 76 people including the compound leader David Koresh died after the FBI launched an assault and a massive fire broke out. Her husband and four of her seven children were killed. Joann Vaega can still remember the grim predictions that a succession of therapists made about her future after she was evacuated from the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, as a child.She was 6 years old at the time, one of 21 children who were released in 1993 during“As I grew up, the demons I faced were different from other kids,” Vaega told TODAY. Supporting this conclusion is that fact that the fire review team found that a number of accelerants were present in the structure and on the clothing of some of the surviving Davidians, including gasoline, kerosene, Coleman fuel, and other accelerants…Because no fireball was observed until well after the fire had become established, the subcommittees conclude that methylene chloride did not cause the fire.However, one committee member disagreed, writing, “I believe there is also the possibility that the fire, or at least some of the fires, may have been caused as a result of the demolishing efforts of the armored military vehicles.”In addition, in a break from the show, the report says the Davidians “could have escaped the residence for a significant period of time after the start of the fire.” Most of the Davidians “either did not attempt to escape from the residence or were prevented from escaping by other Davidians.”As for government accountability, the report says that Treasury Department officials “failed to properly supervise ATF activities leading to the raid.” The report also indicates that “the Department terminated the employment of the two senior raid commanders, (Phillip) Chojnacki and (Charles) Sarabyn.” They were both rehired by the ATF but not in supervisory capacity, the former of which the report criticizes.They believed that “unless they were deliberately set, the probability of the three fires starting almost simultaneously was highly unlikely,” and FBI listening devices captured Davidians saying things like “spread the fuel” six hours before the blaze. The senior ATF raid commanders, Phillip Chojnacki and Chuck Sarabyn, either knew or should have known that the Davidians had become aware of the impending raid and were likely to resist with deadly force. : Part 1Former followers describe their first impressions of Koresh and what restrictions he put on their lives once he took over the apocalyptic religious sect. A host of books and a television miniseries starring Taylor Kitsch as Koresh have been released.“Waco has had resonance with folks that largely believe that the government has overstepped in some of these areas,” Noesner told Kelly.