To provide students with understanding on the process of fire investigation
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• Managers • Prevention officers • Policeman • Fireman • Ay other interested party
Technical Cycle – Fire or equivalent qualification.
The student will be able to understand the principles of fire investigation and to design a technical inspection for fire investigation activities. Course based on NFPA 921, Guidelines and National Approaches to Fire Investigation
INTRODUCTION: • scope, purpose and application of fire investigation
BASIC METHODOLOGY: • nature of fire investigations • systematic approach • relating fire investigation to the scientific method • basic method of a fire investigation • level of certainty • review and reporting procedures
BASIC FIRE SCIENCE: • fire chemistry • products of combustion • fluid flows and heat transfer • fuel load, fuel packages, and properties of flames • ignition • flame spread and fire spread in a compartment • compartment fire development • fire spread between compartments and paths of smoke spread in buildings
FIRE PATTERNS: • fire effects • fire patterns • fire pattern analysis
BUILDING SYSTEMS: • features of design, construction, and structural elements in evaluating fire development • types of construction and construction assemblies
ELECTRICITY AND FIRE: • will be provided statistical and general culture information.
BUILDING FUEL GAS SYSTEMS: • will be provided statistical and general culture information.
FIRE-RELATED HUMAN BEHAVIOUR: • history of research, general considerations of human responses to: fires, factors related to fire initiation, children and fire, incendiary fires, human factors related to fire spread, recognition and response to fires
PLANNING THE INVESTIGATION: • Basic incident information
INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTATION: • Reports
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE: • basic concepts
Arson Document (01:2010/S)
Minimum – written examination
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