Role and responsibilities of Arson investigator expert

1. He is the responsible person and competent person for fire incident investigation
2. Collecting information from witness and also from those people who are nearby
3. Asking question frequently with witness what did he saw over there
4. Communicating with first responder about that situations
5. Fire scene barricaded before going to investigation inside the building
6. Searching fire scene area for collecting quality evidence like debris, ignition sources, criminal
identity, liquid fuels etc.
7. Collecting evidence according to laboratory test purpose.
8. Whatever he found evidences, taking pictures of all fire scene and evidences for supporting
9. Packing all evidences separately with labelled details for laboratory test
10. Transporting packed evidences as soon as possible
11. All samples given to laboratory immediately for testing
12. Once everything is clear, he is allowing to reopen the area

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Arson is a crime where someone trying to ignite fire for criminal activities such as

. trying to murder someone by fire which look like accident

. trying to damage the properties by igniting fire so after that he can claim insurance money

. trying to affect company business by igniting fire

. trying to remove some proof after murder by igniting fire

. Some time mental disorder person can do in angriness

Incendiary is also a part of arson but it little bit different as compare to arson such as like

. someone ignites fire which lead to explosion after some hours

. incendiary crime done by well planning

. criminal set the fire in certain condition, and fire occurred after some respective time

. this type of crime has been done by those personnel who are familiar with the area very well
 Points of origin of fire

The place where fire started ignited and developed is called points of origin of fire. Mostly there
are more chances to collect information and evidence if we found point of origin. There are
some few examples are given below:

1. Fire started due to short circuit from panel

2. Fire started from kitchen because of gas leakage and someone switched on the light during
that time
3. For criminal activity, criminal choose some area for fire where arsonist can get help to find
out lots of evidence
4. From point of origin of fire, you can find source of ignition which lead to big fire
5. During investigation you can find out the reason of incident from points of origin of fire
6. Mostly fire fighter doesn’t know the origin of fire so arson investigator duty is to find out
cause and origin of fire in fire scene
7. It will help you in further investigation and for case study

Fire is chemical chain reaction which occurred after ignition in the combination of heat, fuel and
oxygen.

Fire can occur if it mixed with these three components (Heat, Fuel, Oxygen) which called Fire triangle

If you want to extinguish the fire then you have to remove any of them either heat, fuel or oxygen

For extinguishing the fire, we have lots of firefighting systems like

. Fire extinguishers

. Fire hose reel hose

. Sprinkler system

. co2 suppression system for electrical fire

In fire extinguisher there are different classes A, B, C D

A class for combustible materials

B class for Liquid materials

C for Gaseous materials

D for metals type materials

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