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. ||||| 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. 
 
 Watch: 
 
 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. 
 
 Listen: 
 
 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 ||||| 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. ||||| 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. ||||| A body was found inside the burned-out cabin Tuesday night where Christopher Jordan Dorner was believed to have kept law enforcement authorities at bay before officers fired tear gas into the structure, a source told The Times. 
 
 The body, which was found in the charred rubble of the mountainside cabin, was not positively identified, the source said. The process of determining whether the body is that of the former Los Angeles Police Department officer could take hours or even days, the source said. 
 
 As authorities moved into the cabin earlier Tuesday, they heard a single gunshot. 
 
 UPDATE: Confusion over whether body was found 
 
 According to a law enforcement source, police had broken down windows, fired tear gas into the cabin and blasted over a loud speaker, urging Dorner to surrender. When they got no response, police deployed a vehicle to rip down the walls of the cabin "one by one, like peeling an onion," a law enforcement official said. 
 
 By the time they got to the last wall, authorities heard a single gunshot, the source said. Then flames began to spread through the structure, and gunshots, probably set off by the fire, were heard. 
 
 As darkness descended on the mountainside, Dorner's body had not been found, authorities said. Police were planning to focus their search in the basement area, the source said. 
 
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 Earlier Tuesday, a tall plume of smoke was rising as flames consumed the wood-paneled cabin. Hundreds of law enforcement personnel had swooped down on the site near Big Bear after the gun battles between Dorner and officers that broke out in the snow-covered mountains where the fugitive had been eluding a massive manhunt since his truck was found burning in the area late last week. ||||| He styled himself as a Rambo-like guerrilla, someone trained to outwit and outshoot the police at every turn, and while Christopher Dorner left no doubt he could be unforgivingly violent, when it came to keeping ahead of the law during his deadly rampage, he made one gaffe after another. 
 
 In this aerial photo, law enforcement authorities investigate the charred remains of a cabin Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, where quadruple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner is believed to have died after... (Associated Press) 
 
 Members of the news media are shown outside a home, at left, in Big Bear, Calif., where two women were taken hostage by fugitive Christopher Dorner. Police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer. A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Law enforcement officers check a vehicle at a roadblock Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013 near Big Bear, Calif. A man police believe to be the fugitive ex-Los Angeles officer wanted in three killings was barricaded... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo provided by the San Bernardino sheriff's department shows slain San Bernardino Sheriff Deputy Jeremiah MacKay. MacKay was killed Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 during a shootout outside the cabin where... (Associated Press) 
 
 The last one _ letting one of two people he tied up get loose and call police as he made off in their purple car _ tipped authorities he was coming. 
 
 The angry ex-cop, who authorities say boasted that police agencies had no chance of capturing him except on his terms, appears to have been killed Tuesday in a fierce gun battle after he wrecked two getaway cars and had to make a last stand in a mountain cabin 80 miles east of Los Angeles. 
 
 The cabin went up in flames after authorities launched pyrotechnic tear-gas canisters into it, and authorities were all but certain the charred body found inside afterward was Dorner's. They are waiting for forensic tests to confirm that, but in the meantime San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Wednesday that authorities consider the hunt over. 
 
 Personal effects, including Dorner's driver's license, were found with the body, an official briefed on the search told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. 
 
 Sheriff's deputies were not trying to burn down the cabin with Dorner inside but simply flush him out, McMahon said. 
 
 "It was not on purpose," he told reporters Wednesday. "We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out." 
 
 Karen and Jim Reynolds said they came face to face with Dorner on the day of his downfall. The couple said that they found him in their cabin-style condominium just a stone's throw from the sheriff's command post, and believe he had been holing up there periodically since Friday. The couple said Dorner bound them, put pillow cases over their heads and fled in their purple Nissan, but was able to get to Karen Reynolds' cellphone and dial 911. The Reynolds told their story at a news conference Wednesday night, they said, to clear up recent reports that it was two female housekeepers who had found Dorner and been tied up. 
 
 Their account could not immediately be confirmed by law enforcement officials, but it matched earlier reports saying it was a married couple, and property records showed them as the owners. 
 
 The manhunt, one of the largest in recent memory, began last week after Dorner was linked to the killings of a former Los Angeles police captain's daughter and her fiance. 
 
 Soon after the couple was found shot death near their Orange County condo, authorities linked their killings to a long, rambling rant they say Dorner posted on Facebook vowing to get revenge on the Los Angeles police and their families for ruining his reputation by firing him. 
 
 Dorner was dismissed for filing a false report wrongly accusing his training officer of kicking a mentally disabled man. 
 
 "I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty," Dorner had boasted. "You will now live the life of the prey." 
 
 As it turned out, none of Dorner's four victims were Los Angeles police officers. The other two were a Riverside officer he ambushed at a traffic light and a San Bernardino sheriff's deputy who died in Tuesday's firefight. 
 
 "If you're really trying to kill all those people, if that's really your plan, and you're a great tactician, then you don't tell people," said Jim Clemente, a retired behavioral analyst for the FBI. "You don't tell LAPD in advance so they can put a bunch of bodyguards on people. He went and killed soft targets, innocent citizens, who had nothing to do with him at all. He used those to scare people, and he used those sadistically to harm the LAPD officer he wanted to get at." 
 
 After the first two killings, authorities say Dorner tried to steal a boat in San Diego and flee to Mexico but the former Navy veteran tangled a rope in the outboard motor and couldn't start it. Then he fled to the Big Bear Lake resort area, where his truck axle broke, stranding him on Thursday, just ahead of a heavy snowstorm. 
 
 He may have caught a break when he found refuge in a vacant vacation cabin just across the street from a command post established for the hundreds of officers frantically searching for him. 
 
 Despite a search that involved helicopters and bloodhounds and officers going door-to-door checking hundreds of vacation cabins, Dorner remained out of sight until he was discovered at the cabin near the command post Tuesday. 
 
 San Bernardino County Deputy Chief Steve Kovensky said searchers had not seen any forced entry when they checked it, but he could not provide details about exactly when that check was made. 
 
 Authorities for the most part looked at cabins boarded up for the winter, said Dan Sforza, assistant chief of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and often didn't enter occupied homes where nothing appeared amiss. 
 
 As he fled in the Nissan, Dorner managed to elude authorities for a time by pulling behind two school buses and making a quick turn onto a mountain road. But he crashed the car there and had to steal another. 
 
 That's when he confronted Rick Heltebrake, a ranger who takes care of a Boy Scout camp nearby. He was checking the perimeter of the camp for anything out of the ordinary when he saw Dorner emerge from behind some trees. He was dressed in military fatigues and holding a semi-automatic-style rifle. 
 
 "I don't want to hurt you. Start walking and take your dog," Heltebrake recalled Dorner saying as he pointed the gun at him. He fled with his 3-year-old Dalmatian, Suni, and immediately called police, who quickly found the suspect again. 
 
 This time he opened fire as he drove past a car carrying game wardens looking for him. One of them got out of his own car and returned fire from his high-powered, semi-automatic rifle but apparently missed. 
 
 Out of options after crashing the pickup, the driver made a break for a cabin and barricaded himself inside, where he made his last stand. 
 
 Dorner's mother released a family statement disavowing her son's actions in his final weeks to the Fox affiliate in Los Angeles. 
 
 "It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we express our deepest sympathies and condolences to anyone that suffered losses or injuries resulting from Christopher's actions. We do not condone Christopher's actions," said the statement Nancy Dorner gave to KTTV-TV. "The family has no further comments and ask that our privacy be respected during this difficult time." 
 
 Sheriff's Deputy Jeremiah MacKay was killed during that final gunfight and another deputy was wounded. 
 
 MacKay, a detective who had been with the department 15 years, had a wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son, sheriff's officials said. He had spoken to AP just last weekend, saying he hoped Dorner could be taken into custody without any more violence. 
 
 "You just never know if the guy's going to pop out or where he's going to pop out," MacKay told an AP reporter. "We're hoping this comes to a close without any more casualties." 
 
 If Dorner's body is identified, he'll be the final casualty. 
 
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 Associated Press Writers Christopher Weber in San Bernardino and John Rogers in Los Angeles contributed to this story.
– 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.