Arson Training Facility
The Arson Training Facility is designed to provide the most realistic settings possible for the student investigator to learn and implement lessons learned in class. It provides the student with the tools to conduct legally sound and defensible fire/arson investigations that will withstand the complexity of legal proceedings in a court of law. Settings include:
- Flashover Cells demonstrating actual fire growth, spread, heat release, and related fire dynamics
- Individual Burn Cells for "cases" assigned to investigative teams
- Complex Cells of a house for determining origin and cause of a real case incident
Within the facility, practical exercises include:
- heat release and thermal dynamics of accelerated and non-accelerated fire;
- photography of scene and identified "evidence";
- photography/documentation of fire and smoke travel;
- establishment of photo log;
- evidence collection, packaging, and processing;
- evidence and laboratory logs, and testing requests;
- scene sketching/diagramming;
- room content and furniture placement;
- investigation of electrical components and/or appliances; and
- report writing based on investigation of assigned scene.
For more information on the Arson Training Facility, please contact Michael Donahue.
