Where Is Robert Fisher?

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(typing and scribbling)

(ambient chord)

(phone ringing)

- [Voiceover] 911 emergency.

- [Voiceover] 74th

Street and Oak,

there's just an explosion

off of Holly and a fire.

- [Voiceover] And a fire.

- [Voiceover] You bet. Big fire.

- [Voiceover] Can you see it?

- [Voiceover] Big fire.

You bet I can see it.

Some house just exploded

and ignited on fire.

- [Voiceover] Okay.

Big fire explosion.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead

and send the paramedics.

If you see anything else,

give me a call, okay?

- [Voiceover] You bet. Bye.

- [Voiceover] Thank you.

Bye-bye.

(phone ringing)

- [Voiceover] Fire

and big explosion.

- [Voiceover] Hello, Judy.

- [Voiceover] Hi, I got a

fire and a big explosion.

- [Voiceover] What's

the, uh, location?

- [Voiceover] There's still

a general area of 7400 Oak,

74th Street and Oak.

- [Voiceover] 74th and Oak.

Okay.

Alright, we're on the way.

- [Voiceover] 911 emergency.

- [Voiceover] Yes,

I just heard like

an explosion or something.

- [Voiceover] Okay,

around 74th and Oak?

- [Voiceover] Yes.

- [Voiceover] Okay, we do

have the Fire Department--

- [Voiceover] 2240, right

behind 2240 North 74th Way.

- [Voiceover] Okay,

what's going on there?

- [Voiceover] It's a big fire.

It's a really big fire.

It just like blew up.

- [Voiceover] Okay,

what's on fire?

- [Voiceover] The whole house.

- [Voiceover] The whole house?

- [Voiceover] The whole house

is burning up.

(dial tone ringing)

- [Voiceover] Hello?

- [Voiceover] Hi,

I'm calling about the

fire on 74th--

- [Voiceover] Yes!

Is somebody on the way?

- [Voiceover] Okay, we have

the whole world on the way.

I'm just calling to make

sure you guys are okay.

- [Voiceover] Make sure

they come in on Holly.

They get lost every damn

time there's a fire.

They've gotta come in on Holly.

- [Voiceover] Okay, thank you.

- [Voiceover] Is this

around 74th and Oak,

where there's a fire?

- [Voiceover] Yes it is.

There are people in there

in this whole house exploding.

- [Voiceover] Okay, we do have

police and fire on the way.

Were there people

inside the house?

- [Voiceover] Yes there are.

They're probably dead.

And the guy's house next door's

gonna catch on fire, too.

- [Voiceover] Okay, I'm

telling the officers right now

that people are

inside the house.

Do you know how

many people, sir?

- [Voiceover] I don't

know how many people.

(siren blaring)

- I remember the day

that it happened.

8:
45 in the morning,

April 10th, 2001

there was an explosion

that was heard for miles.

And then a fire followed.

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- If you had a TV, and

you were in the habit of

watching local news

in the morning,

it was one of those

kind of things that

everybody sat back

and watched together.

Whole community

watched this live on TV

that terrible overcast morning.

- [Voiceover] The flames

just jumped out of the home

just before nine

o'clock this morning.

Here's what it looked

like from NewsHawk Five.

Soon after it started,

the house burned to

the ground in minutes.

Firefighters say

they heard explosions

even after they got here.

Police tell us they

heard popping sounds

on their way here or when

they got to the scene.

And there may have

been explosives

and ammunition inside the home.

But they can't confirm that

or how the fire started.

- We just heard this

tremendous explosion.

And the cat, well,

the cats went up about

five feet in the air.

It just shook the whole house.

And I ran out the front.

And I friend ran out the back.

And I saw smoke coming up.

- It was defensive immediately.

I mean, we got on scene and,

there was no, you could not

have gone into the house

to fight the fire

because it was the whole,

except for the garage

area, the whole other part

was just fully

engulfed in flames.

- The first firefighter

that pulled up on the scene,

he said he knew right away

there were people inside.

He said that smell, the

smell of burning bodies,

you don't quickly forget that.

- Homes burn.

They don't just blow up.

And this thing was so fully

engulfed from the get-go.

As the firefighters and

the emergency responders

were just getting into

the smoldering ash,

there just seemed to be

sort of a palpable sense

that there was gonna

be more to this story,

and of course, there was.

- Police found the bodies

of a woman and two children

in a Scottsdale home this

morning after a fire.

It happened in South

Scottsdale near

Scottsdale Road and McDowell.

John Brodsky has spent

the day at the scene,

and John, do investigators

have any idea

what specifically happened here?

- Cary, they really don't have

too many answers this evening.

They do know that

there are three people.

There were three

people in the home.

The found them

dead this morning.

And they're trying

to find the husband,

who also lived in the home.

Robert and Mary Fisher

are the parents.

12-year-old Brittany and

10-year-old Bobby, the kids.

Robert and one of

the family's vehicles

are still missing.

Loved ones and police still

have a lot of questions

after this fire.

They don't know how it started.

They don't know where

Robert Fisher is,

or if the father even had

any idea what happened.

They tell us that he

works at Mayo Hospital.

Police say he left there

about five o'clock last night.

(camera clicking)

(dark eerie music)

- What I remember

most is Johnny and I

walking to the backyard

of the Fisher residence.

(dark eerie music)

And going, and the

walls were blown out,

so we were able to see over

the walls of each bedroom

and seeing the

children lying in bed.

(camera clicking)

And Mary, of course, we

didn't know it was Mary

at that time.

(dark eerie music)

Realizing that we've

got a problem here.

And Johnny and I just kind

of looked at each other

and says, "We've

got a triple here."

(dark eerie music)

In an incident like that,

somebody's gonna make a move.

If a house explodes,

somebody's gonna wake up,

somebody might step and maybe be

a couple of feet

away from the bed.

But these people look like

they were comfortable in bed.

If it was a slow burning fire

where smoke might've

knocked them out,

but this wasn't a

slow burning fire.

- We were over it in our

helicopter that morning.

And it wasn't just

a normal fire.

It was a conflagration.

The whole house was going up.

And of course later we find out

that there were

accelerants used.

(camera clicks)

(dark eerie music)

(camera clicks)

(camera clicks)

- The accelerants were used

down the hallway.

A candle was deliberately put

in the middle of the hallway

to ignite the gas that

had been broken off

from the furnace.

- [Voiceover] Flames

destroyed the home

quickly yesterday morning.

Robert Fisher and

the family's SUV

were nowhere to be found.

Their pastor says he was

at church Monday night

for a hunting safety course.

- We have absolutely

no reason to believe

that there was any issues

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