This 45-hour course addresses the critical skills essential to the effective collection, packaging, preservation, processing, and testing of evidence from a fire/explosive scene. This course also includes a review of type of explosives and their investigation, fire/death injury investigation, fire scene safety, and a review of the chemistry of hazardous materials. This course utilizes state of the art techniques, practices, protocols, and standards relative to the investigator to ensure legally defensible evidence presentations in the court of law. This course also includes interaction and collaboration between the street level investigator and the laboratory scientist. This collaboration fosters the efforts of the entire investigative community involved in overall aspects of evidence from fire and explosive incidents.
This course is designed to meet or exceed the applicable sections of NFPA 1033, Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Investigator.
- Manager: Thomas Fucci