Alternative Fuel Vehicles
This module covers how CNG, LNG, LPG, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles work and their implications for fire investigation.
Basic Electricity
This module introduces basic electrical concepts, including: terminology, atomic theory and electricity, Ohm’s Law, Joule’s Law, AC and DC power. Electrical Systems 1
Charleston Sofa Super Store Fire
A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC that resulted in the deaths of nine fire fighters.
Commercial Kitchen Fires 1: Fundamentals
This module describes the design, construction, components, and operation of a commercial kitchen’s ventilation, fire suppression, and cooking fuel systems. Commercial Kitchen Fires 1
Commercial Kitchen Fires 2: Investigation
This module provides an investigative framework for commercial kitchen fires and discusses major commercial kitchen systems and activities as they relate to possible fire origin and cause. Commercial Kitchen Fires 2
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.
Discovery in Civil Cases
This self-paced program is an introduction to discovery in civil proceedings such as fire loss claims and product defect lawsuits.
DNA
This module covers the foundation of DNA evidence: defining, recognizing, collecting, and testing.
Documenting the Event
This program provides a practical overview of how to perform the baseline documentation tasks that occur at every scene.
Effective Investigation and Testimony
This module will discuss the techniques and strategies for conducting a proper science-based fire scene investigation and effectively presenting an investigator’s findings in court as an expert witness.
Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Design Basics
This program explains the basic principles of how electric and hybrid vehicles are designed and work, including major systems and typical components. Electric & Hybrid Vehicles 1
Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Fires
This program discusses common failure modes, evidence handling procedures, and safety protocols for electric and hybrid vehicles. Electric & Hybrid Vehicles 2
Electrical Safety
This module presents critical electrical safety practices that every fire investigator should implement at every scene, every time. Electrical Systems 2
Ethics & Social Media
This module discusses the intersection of social media, ethics, and the relationship of what’s legal to what’s ethical in decision-making.
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?
Explosion Dynamics
This module teaches the foundational knowledge of explosion dynamics, which is a necessary precursor to investigating an explosion scene.
Fatal Fires: An Introduction
This module provides a thorough understanding of the ways an investigation changes when a fire-related death occurs. Fatal Fires 1
Fatal Fires: Investigation
This module discusses investigative tasks specific to fatal fires, including properly recovering and moving a body and interpreting fire effects on the body within the context of the fire scene. Fatal Fires 3
Fire Chemistry
This module addresses the foundations of fire chemistry and places it within the context of fire scene investigations.
Fire Dynamics Calculations - Version 2.0
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.
Fire Dynamics in the Wildland
This module discusses foundational wildfire terminology, factors that influence wildfire behavior, how these factors interact to produce fire effects, and new research into wildfire dynamics. Wildfires 1
Fire Effects Part 1: Heat Effects on Fuels
Learn about the mass loss and deformation effects of heat on fuels, including definition, formation explanation, the fire scene context, and implications for fire pattern analysis. Fire Effects 1
Fire Flow Analysis
This module explains fire flow path and discusses the effects of ventilation, fuel availability, and the modern fire environment on that flow path.
Fire Investigation for Fire Officers
This module provides a road map for fire officers to integrate and navigate their fire investigation duty with all their other responsibilities and describes where to obtain specific training in fire investigation.
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. PPE 1
Fireplace Systems
This module covers fireplace systems layout and components, identification in the field, and common fire causes involving fireplace systems.
Fundamentals of Interviewing
This module presents best practices in preparing for and conducting the informational interview with witnesses in the fire investigation case.
The HAZWOPER Standard
This module provides introductory information on the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standard – 29 CFR 1910.120.
Ignitable Liquid Detection Canine Teams
This module helps the investigator understand how IGL canine teams are trained and worked so investigators can work in partnership with the handler to conduct searches successfully and safely.
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.
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. Evidence 1
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.
Introduction to Youth-Set Fires
This program describes the scope of the youth-set fire problem, how fire investigation addresses it, and the fire investigator’s responsibilities in a youth-set fire case. Youth-Set Fires 1
Lightning Behavior Fundamentals
This module details the fundamentals of lightning, how it is detected, and how it contacts buildings and wildland fuels. Lightning 1
Lithium-Ion Battery Fires
This program explains what lithium-ion batteries are, how they are constructed, where they are used, safety concerns, and how they can cause fires and explosions.
Motor Vehicles: Investigation
This program will introduce the fire investigator to the basic methodologies use to investigate vehicle fires. Motor Vehicles 3
NFPA 1033 and Your Career 2025
This module covers NFPA 1033’s importance, its requirements, and how those requirements impact a fire investigator’s professional development.
Origin & Cause Hypothesis Testing Methods
This module explains the different types of physical testing, modeling, and scientific research available for hypothesis testing. Origin & Cause Hypothesis Testing 2
Photovoltaic Cells & Systems
This module discusses how photovoltaic systems work, how they are designed and installed, and how to safely interact with them when investigating a 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. Evidence 2
Postflashover Fires
This module describes ventilation-controlled fire flow and interpretation of postflashover fire damage patterns.
Preparation for the Marine Fire Scene
This module lays the groundwork for understanding marine fires by covering four basic concepts that the investigator must understand before investigating a marine fire.
Process of Elimination
The use of the process of elimination in the determination of a fire cause is a topic that has generated significant discussion and controversy in the fire investigation profession.
Residential Electrical Systems
This module teaches the basics of the electrical power generation, distribution, and transmission system. Electrical Systems 3
Search and Seizure
This module explains the principles of search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment, as contained in the amendment and according to subsequent case law and applies them to typical fire scene scenarios.
Site Safety Assessment
This module describes how to conduct a site safety assessment, identify potential hazards, craft a plan to mitigate risks, and act so you do not bring the hazards home. PPE 2
Sources of Information: Origin & Cause
This module maps out the organic process for how the investigator identifies information needed during an origin and cause examination and obtains that information. Sources of Information 1
Thermometry, Heat, and Heat Transfer
This module addresses the foundations of thermometry, including the definition of temperature, the scales used to measure temperature and much more.
Understanding Undetermined
This program untangles the meanings of “undetermined,” explains its correct usage, and describes how to properly report “undetermined” fire cause and classification.
Using Arc Mapping
Arc Mapping, or Arc Fault Circuit Analysis, uses the electrical system to help reconstruct a scene, providing investigators with a means of determining the area of a fire’s origin. Electrical Systems 4
Wildland Fires Investigation
This module illustrates how wildland fires spread, explains how to interpret burn patterns unique to these types of fires. Wildfires 2
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