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Fire dynamics, flashover, burn patterns, char depth, arc mapping, ignition sources, sampling, exhibit continuity and the origin and cause report. Every topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 66 illustrated pages.
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Every page has a large drawing and a box with the numbers, patterns and steps you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 62 topics.
You're standing in a burnt-out front room. The window glass is crazed, there's spalled concrete by the door, and the officer next to you asks: does that mean an accelerant was used?
You know you've read about it. But the manual gives it three pages of paragraphs, buried between old investigation beliefs and a list of studies. At the scene, none of it comes back in order.
In the book it's one page. Crazed glass drawn next to a hose stream: crazing comes from cooling water. Spalled concrete with its many causes. And a box underneath: neither one proves an accelerant.
The same goes for the V pattern and its angle, char depth measured with a probe, arc beads against fire melt, the plume and the ceiling jet, and sampling for ignitable liquids. Each one has its own page.
So you answer the officer calmly, note it properly and carry on with the scene. You understand it, and you do it without going back to the manual.
The investigator and the method, fire dynamics, safety and the scene, burn patterns, area of origin, ignition sources, evidence, hypotheses and the report, and a final review: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
You're in a kitchen gutted by fire. The heaviest damage is on the ceiling above the fridge, not by the cooker, and you need to know whether that's really where it started.
You open the book at the plume and ceiling jet page and see it drawn: the plume rising, the hot gases running along the ceiling, and why the worst damage can sit away from the origin.
The same with flashover and its guide values, the V pattern, arc beads against fire melt, and where to take samples for ignitable liquids: each one on its own page.
Fire Investigation Illustrated is 66 illustrated pages in 9 parts, ending with the whole method on one page, the numbers and terms to have to hand and a checklist before you sign your report.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What an investigator has to answer, who investigates in the UK, the method in 6 steps, the scientific method, negative corpus and expectation bias.
Fire triangle and tetrahedron, heat transfer, ignition, plume and ceiling jet, the hot gas layer, compartment fire stages, flashover, fuel- versus ventilation-controlled, backdraught.
Dynamic risk assessment, structural hazards, contaminants and asbestos, cordons, information before entry and the exterior walk-round.
Read burn damage without the old myths: least to most damage, V and other patterns, clean burn, protected areas, char depth, calcination, spalling and crazed glass, melted materials and pour-like patterns.
Heat and flame vectors, debris layering, arc mapping, fire spread sequence, reconstruction and what to do when the origin can't be found.
Fuel, ignition source and sequence, the UK domestic electrical system, arc beads, appliances and extension leads, lithium-ion batteries, cooking, smoking, heating and deliberate fire indicators.
Scene photography, the sketch, sampling for ignitable liquid residues, exhibit labels and continuity, contamination, fatal fires and the coroner.
Building and testing hypotheses, ruling out an accidental cause, classifying the cause, report structure, the expert's duty to the court and cross-examination.
What Level 3 and Level 4 each cover, the whole method on one page, the numbers and terms to have to hand and a final checklist before signing.
At the end of the book: The whole method on one page, the numbers and terms to have to hand and a final checklist before signing your report.
Test yourself topic by topic with exam-style questions, and see why each answer is right, so you find your weak spots before the exam does.
See the errors investigators make most often (from reading clean burn as the origin to breaking continuity of evidence), each drawn wrong and then right.
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The method in six steps and every pattern drawn, so the course material finally has an order you can follow at a scene.
Revise one page at a time, test yourself with the practice questions and keep the numbers and terms page beside you.
Print it, keep it in the van or on your desk, and check a pattern, a sampling point or the report structure before you sign.
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Yes. It isn't a beginner's book: it puts what you already know into one order, from least to most damage to the signed report, with UK practice throughout. It also works for loss adjusters and scene examiners.
Written for UK practice, not a translated American book. It follows the topic areas of the IFE Level 3 and Level 4 Certificate in Fire Investigation, the Forensic Science Regulator's Code of Practice, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, CrimPR Part 19 and CPR Part 35. NFPA 921 appears only where UK practice refers to it, such as the cause classes. Court rules cited are those of England and Wales: if you work in Scotland or Northern Ireland, check your own procedure. Every legal reference comes with its source, so you can look up the current version.
No. It's an independent study book, not produced, endorsed or approved by the IFE, any Fire and Rescue Service, the police or the Forensic Science Regulator. It doesn't come with a certificate: the IFE certificate comes only from passing the IFE exam.
No. It doesn't replace your course, supervised scene work or your organisation's procedures. It helps you study and revise them in order.
No. They're written for this book, in exam style, to help you find your weak spots. They aren't official IFE questions.
The book and the 2 free books arrive as a PDF by email, at the address you enter at checkout.
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Yes. The PDF is ready to print: print it at home or at a print shop and keep it in the van.
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Ruling out an accidental cause: the steps drawn, so you can explain them when you're asked.
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