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A Ventilation-Focused Approach to the Impact of Building Structures and Systems on Fire Development
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Vacant and Abandoned Buildings: Hazards and Solutions
Vacant and Abandoned Buildings: Hazards and Solutions
This module provides an overview on how structures can become vacant and eventually abandoned. (more)
Managing Complex Fire Scene Investigations
Managing Complex Fire Scene Investigations
This module focuses on how to manage investigations that have “complicating” factors. (more)
Investigating Fatal Fires
Investigating Fatal Fires
This module provides a thorough understanding of the ways an investigation changes when a fire-related death occurs. (more)
Understanding Fire Through the Candle Experiments
Understanding Fire Through the Candle Experiments
This program presents the results of flame experiments conducted with a candle. (more)
Documenting the Event
Documenting the Event
This program provides a practical overview of how to perform the baseline documentation tasks that occur at every scene. (more)
Physical Evidence at the Fire Scene
Physical Evidence at the Fire Scene
The program illustrates for the fire investigator, how non-traditional fire scene evidence can be helpful during an investigation. (more)
Critical Thinking Solves Cases
Critical Thinking Solves Cases
This program brings three highly experienced fire investigators and an attorney with experience as a prosecutor and civil litigator together for a round table discussion. (more)
Introduction to Evidence
Introduction to Evidence
This program introduces the fire investigator to the issues related to the collection, handling and use of evidence related to a fire investigation. (more)
Fire Dynamics Calculations
Fire Dynamics Calculations
The program is designed to introduce a new Palm/Pocket PC application called CFI Calculator to users and provide examples of how it can be used by fire investigators in the field. (more)
Insurance and the Fire Investigation
Insurance and the Fire Investigation
This program discusses how to access insurance information, understand insurance documents, ask key questions of witnesses, and apply the information learned. (more)
Investigating Motor Vehicle Fires
Investigating Motor Vehicle Fires
This program will introduce the fire investigator to the basic methodologies use to investigate vehicle fires. (more)
Fire Investigator Scene Safety
Fire Investigator Scene Safety
The evaluation of hazards and the assessment of the relative risks associated with the investigation of fires and explosions are critical factors in the management of any investigation. (more)
An Analysis of the Station Nightclub Fire
An Analysis of the Station Nightclub Fire
A fire occurred on the night of Feb. 20, 2003, in The Station nightclub at 211 Cowesett Avenue, West Warwick, Rhode Island. (more)
The Scientific Method for Fire and Explosion Investigation
The Scientific Method for Fire and Explosion Investigation
The basics of the scientific method are deceptively simple: observe, hypothesize, test, and conclude. But, how do you really implement the scientific method in a fire investigation? (more)
Digital Photography and the Fire Investigator
Digital Photography and the Fire Investigator
The program discusses the basics of digital photography for fire investigators as well as software and editing procedures for digital images intended as evidence. (more)
Ethics and the Fire Investigator
Ethics and the Fire Investigator
Should you work for a private lab as a consultant if you are on an Arson Task Force? How about accepting discounts from the local hardware store as a “thanks” for a job well done on a fire they had last year? (more)
MagneTek: A Case Study In The Daubert Challenge
MagneTek: A Case Study In The Daubert Challenge
This program discusses the latest developments in expert testimony under the Daubert standard, including the MagneTek case recently decided in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. (more)
Introduction to Fire Dynamics and Modeling
Introduction to Fire Dynamics and Modeling
This program takes you inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) archives of some of the most interesting and instructive test burns and fire model simulations they have ever conducted. (more)
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