BYU Police have concluded their investigation regarding the recent fires on campus. They determined the cause to be a group of students who have been conducting secret Family Home Evening bonfires in the basements of BYU buildings.

The Benson Building fire on July 8th was caused by rising freshman Mara Holland brought her own leftover fireworks and accidentally dropped them in the fire.

On Wednesday of this week the group decided to make pineapple upside down cake with a Dutch oven in the Clyde Engineering Building. Someone spilled their cooking oil and the fire spread from there.

Due to bans on gatherings of large groups of people, Emma Bradshaw and Gunner Rasmussen began holding secret meetings at the Harris Fine Arts Center in May of this year. BYU Police became aware of the meetings in the HFAC, but they had no way to successfully navigate the notoriously confusing building.

Bradshaw and Rasmussen decided to move the gatherings from building to building and devised an elaborate system to avoid discovery by any kind of authority. Secret knocks and passwords were changed on alternating weeks. Recent passwords included “cinnamon rolls,” “handcart,” and “Mahonri Moriancumer.”

Bradshaw said that Family Home Evening should have been exempted from the gathering ban as it is “extremely essential” and deeming it non-essential was “an attack on religious freedom.” Rasmussen added, “I just needed to get out. My roommates were sick of me telling the same mission stories over and over.” They are engaged to be married next month.

The report states that in addition to fires, the gatherings typically consisted of board games, ukuleles, and last-minute spiritual thoughts.

Regarding their first successful investigation, BYU Police said that this crime bust “almost replaces the high of giving out parking tickets during Education Week.”