#36751 FIRE INVESTIGATOR, 2ND

This 2nd Edition manual is designed to provide fire investigators with the resources necessary to meet the job performance requirements for fire investigators outlined in NFPA® 1033. Arson investigators, private and public fire investigators, officers responsible for origin and cause determination, and students training to become investigators will find this manual to be an essential resource. This edition has been reorganized to place more emphasis on area of origin and cause determination with explanded information about fire pattern analysis. The text includes but is not limited to the following topics:

Safe practices for conducting an investigation

Effects of fire and explosion science on fire investigation

Building construction and building services

Investigative process

Protecting, documenting, and collecting evidence

Conducting interviews

Scene examination and reconstruction

Area of origin determination

Ignition source, sequence, and cause determinations

New material covered:

Explosion dynamics

Explosion scene examination

Explosion origin and cause determination