Core Curriculum

Complex Fire Investigation for the Insurance Industry was created as a training course that would benefit both criminal law enforcement and the insurance industry. Complex Fire Investigation for the Insurance Industry is an interactive learning opportunity, teaching the latest advanced investigative techniques.

• 40 Hours of Tested Training

This course addresses the critical skills essential to the effective investigation and evaluation of fires involving potential electrical fire causes. This course utilizes state-of-the-art techniques, practices, protocols, and standards to assist investigators to properly and effectively evaluate electrical systems and associated components to ascertain their role in a fire.

• 24 Hours of Tested Training

This block of instruction will serve to satisfy, in part or whole, requirements concerning continuing education posted in NFPA 1033 Section 1.3.7.

• 6 Hours of Tested Training

This practical course will provide fire investigators with the necessary tools to survive the various legal challenges to their expert qualifications and testimony, including how to draft an origin and cause report in full conformity with NFPA 921

• 8 Hours of Tested Training

If you have never been called upon as an Expert Witness, this class will give you the opportunity to better understand the monumental task of preparing for court and then experience testifying in a real courtroom environment with practicing attorneys.

• 20 Hours of Tested Training

• Comprehensive Practical Examination

Applicants must pass all critical elements and achieve a minimum score of 70% on each of the 10 components of the practical testing to be deemed to have successfully challenged the exam.

The detailed study of how chemistry, fire science, and engineering disciplines of fluid mechanics and heat transfer interact to influence fire behavior.

• 8 Hours of Tested Training

This presentation includes information on the background of the health and safety issues present at most post-fire and explosion scenes, the latest research regarding the post-fire environment health hazards, and a review and discussion of the best practices white paper, focused on the proper PPE to be used in the post-fire and explosion environment; including proper donning, doffing, and decon procedures.

• 3-4 Hours of Training

Attendees will receive instruction in the critical elements of photography as they relate to forensic investigations. This program emphasizes best practices to accurately capture digital images which will be used for comparative or analytical purposes such as crime scene investigation and accident reconstruction.

• 8 Hours Tested Training

This course is designed to provide the new fire investigator with the prerequisite knowledge necessary to properly determine the origin and cause of a fire and to refresh the experienced fire investigator with his/her current knowledge base as it relates to the scientific investigation of a fire scene.

• 40 Hours of Tested Training

This video intensive course will explain the deposition process in civil litigation, review situations where an investigator can be vulnerable, and teach the investigator how to demonstrate confidence and a strong presence while testifying during a deposition or trial.

• 8 Hours Tested Training

Insurance carriers pay billions of dollars every year for property damage caused by fire and aggressively investigate subrogation possibilities through counsel, private sector origin and cause investigators, and engineering consultants. The origin and cause investigator are a crucial member of the subrogation investigation team. The investigator’s opinions traditionally form the foundation for the insurer’s decision to put potentially responsible parties on notice of potential claims and schedule a joint scene exam. The investigator’s opinions are also instrumental in an insurer’s ultimate decision on whether to file a lawsuit against a responsible third party.

• 8 Hours Tested Training

This is a two-day class that provides law enforcement and fire investigators the specific tools needed to investigate and identify youth who set fires.

• 16 Hours of Tested Training

The IAAI Motor Vehicle Fire Investigation 2-day course consists of
class instruction in determining the origin and cause of motor vehicle fires.

• 16 Hours of Tested Training

The IAAI Motor Vehicle Fire Investigation 3-day course consists of 24 hours of class instruction in determining the origin and cause of motor vehicles fires and culminates in an investigation of a live burn vehicle fire scenario.

• 24 Hours Tested Training

The Global Leader in Fire Investigations (IAAI) offers the most up to date training for the new edition; presented by members of the NFPA 921 Technical Committee.

• 8 Hours Tested Training

This block of instruction will serve to satisfy, in part or whole, requirements concerning continuing education posted in NFPA 1033 Section 1.3.7.

• 8 Hours of Tested Training