KRS 227.240: Investigating and reporting on fires.

The chief of each fire department, sheriff, or local deputy marshal ordered under KRS

227.230 shall immediately investigate the origin and circumstances of a fire in his or her

area and determine the cause of the fire so far as practicable. If it appears that the fire is of

suspicious origin, he or she shall immediately notify the state fire marshal and the

commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police.