NFPA 921 LATEST EXAMINERS SET TIPS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Ignition sequence - ✔✔The succession of events and conditions that allow the
source of ignition, the fuel, and the oxidant to interact in appropriate quantities and
circumstances for combustion to begin.
✔✔Negative corpus - ✔✔A methodology in which an ignition source is determined
without physical evidence for it.
✔✔Fire tetrahedron - ✔✔The combustion reaction can be characterized by four
components: fuel, oxidizing agent, heat and the uninhibited chemical chain reaction.
✔✔Saddle burns - ✔✔Distinctive u-shaped patterns that are sometimes found on the
top edges of floor joists caused by a fire burning downwards
✔✔Accidental, Incendiary, Natural, & Undetermined - ✔✔Four Fire Determinations
✔✔4th Amendment. - ✔✔Unreasonable search and seizure (12.2)
✔✔5th Amendment - ✔✔The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due
process (12.2)
, ✔✔6th Amendment - ✔✔The right to a Speedy Trial by jury, representation by an
attorney for an accused person (12.2)
✔✔Four Methods to Enter Private Property - ✔✔Consent, exigent circumstance,
administrative Search warrant, criminal search warrant (12.3.3)
✔✔Michigan v. Tyler - ✔✔An investigator in a private owned place can continue for a
"reasonable period of time". (12.3.3.2.2)
✔✔Administrative Warrant Scope - ✔✔The scope is limited to the investigation of the
origin and cause of the fire. (12.3.3.3.2)
✔✔Criminal Search Warrant Purpose - ✔✔To allow entry of govt. agents to search for
and collect evidence of a crime. (12.3.3.4)
✔✔Administrative Warrant Purpose - ✔✔To allow those responsible to investigate the
origin and cause of a fire. (12.3.3.3.1)
✔✔The application for obtaining a criminal search warrant to typically includes the
following: - ✔✔1) The kind of character of the property site.
2) The place or person to be searched.
3) Allegations of fact based upon personal knowledge of the applicant or upon
information and belief of the applicant, with the grounds for such believe stated that
reasonable cause exists to support statements one and two. (12.3.3.4.1)
✔✔When does a investigator need to Mirandize? - ✔✔If the interrogation is conducted
in a custodial setting by an investigator who represents a governmental agency or who
is acting at the request of government investigators. (12.3.4.1)
✔✔Miranda v. Arizona - ✔✔No evidence obtained in the interrogation may be used
against the accused. (12.3.4.2)
✔✔When can a legal team "Request to Produce?" - ✔✔During the discovery phase of
the pretrial. Documents and evidence can be requested along with a subpoena.
(12.4.2.1)
✔✔interrogatories - ✔✔Written questions one party serves on another party.
Interrogatories must be answered in writing, under oath, and signed by a party or other
representative. (12.4.2.2)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Ignition sequence - ✔✔The succession of events and conditions that allow the
source of ignition, the fuel, and the oxidant to interact in appropriate quantities and
circumstances for combustion to begin.
✔✔Negative corpus - ✔✔A methodology in which an ignition source is determined
without physical evidence for it.
✔✔Fire tetrahedron - ✔✔The combustion reaction can be characterized by four
components: fuel, oxidizing agent, heat and the uninhibited chemical chain reaction.
✔✔Saddle burns - ✔✔Distinctive u-shaped patterns that are sometimes found on the
top edges of floor joists caused by a fire burning downwards
✔✔Accidental, Incendiary, Natural, & Undetermined - ✔✔Four Fire Determinations
✔✔4th Amendment. - ✔✔Unreasonable search and seizure (12.2)
✔✔5th Amendment - ✔✔The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due
process (12.2)
, ✔✔6th Amendment - ✔✔The right to a Speedy Trial by jury, representation by an
attorney for an accused person (12.2)
✔✔Four Methods to Enter Private Property - ✔✔Consent, exigent circumstance,
administrative Search warrant, criminal search warrant (12.3.3)
✔✔Michigan v. Tyler - ✔✔An investigator in a private owned place can continue for a
"reasonable period of time". (12.3.3.2.2)
✔✔Administrative Warrant Scope - ✔✔The scope is limited to the investigation of the
origin and cause of the fire. (12.3.3.3.2)
✔✔Criminal Search Warrant Purpose - ✔✔To allow entry of govt. agents to search for
and collect evidence of a crime. (12.3.3.4)
✔✔Administrative Warrant Purpose - ✔✔To allow those responsible to investigate the
origin and cause of a fire. (12.3.3.3.1)
✔✔The application for obtaining a criminal search warrant to typically includes the
following: - ✔✔1) The kind of character of the property site.
2) The place or person to be searched.
3) Allegations of fact based upon personal knowledge of the applicant or upon
information and belief of the applicant, with the grounds for such believe stated that
reasonable cause exists to support statements one and two. (12.3.3.4.1)
✔✔When does a investigator need to Mirandize? - ✔✔If the interrogation is conducted
in a custodial setting by an investigator who represents a governmental agency or who
is acting at the request of government investigators. (12.3.4.1)
✔✔Miranda v. Arizona - ✔✔No evidence obtained in the interrogation may be used
against the accused. (12.3.4.2)
✔✔When can a legal team "Request to Produce?" - ✔✔During the discovery phase of
the pretrial. Documents and evidence can be requested along with a subpoena.
(12.4.2.1)
✔✔interrogatories - ✔✔Written questions one party serves on another party.
Interrogatories must be answered in writing, under oath, and signed by a party or other
representative. (12.4.2.2)
