Dr. Mark Svare joins the IAAI’s CFITrainer.Net podcast to set the record straight on the use of arc surveying in fire investigations.

Our guest today specializes in heavy machinery fires, principally mining machines, and she has some wild stories and crucial takeaways from these complicated cases that are applicable to fire investigations of all types.

ITC Preview with President David Bridges

With us today is Michael Rushton, a Professional Engineer and Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator with over 15 years of public and private fire investigation experience.

Today, we’re diving into marine fire investigation with Adam Holloway. Some pretty high profile incidents have been in the news, including the line-of-duty deaths of two Newark, NJ Fire Department firefighters aboard a docked cargo ship loaded with over a thousand vehicles and eleven people hospitalized for smoke inhalation when a fan on a Navy ship malfunctioned.

Dr. Pope is here to share cases in which fire effects, patterns, and evidence associated with human bodies made a critical difference in origin and cause determination.

IAAI ITC 2025 PREVIEW WITH TRACE LAWLESS

What can fire investigators do to help themselves and each other stay mentally healthy given the difficult and sometimes emotionally challenging work they do?

This month, the CFITrainer.Net podcast welcomes Captain Chase Hawthorne of the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal to talk about the bizarre case that won him the 2024 IAAI Investigator of the Year Award.

News Roundup - March 2024