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1. Name some residential appliances that can cause a fire: - ANSWER ✔ Oven
Coffee maker
Toaster
Can opener
Refrigerator
Dishwasher
Microwave
Space heater
Electric blanket
Air conditioner
Hair dryer
Iron
Dryer
Lighting
2. What is an exemplar? - ANSWER ✔ It is an example / exact copy of the
product or item burned in the fire. It is for testing purposes.
3. What are some different explosion related injuries? - ANSWER ✔ Blast
pressure
Shrapnel
Thermal (burns)
Seismic effect injuries (building collapse)
4. What are the degrees of burns? - ANSWER ✔ First, red skin
Second, blisters
, Third, full thickness - burns all the way through the skin
Fourth, charring of underlying tissue like muscle and fat
5. What are methods of death in a fire? - ANSWER ✔ CO poisoning
Hyperthermia (heat)
Inhalation of hot gases
Other toxins / soot / smoke
Hypoxia (lack of oxygen)
6. What are the fundamental issues of a death investigation? - ANSWER ✔
Remains / Victim identification
Cause of death
Manner of death
Victim activity
Postmortem changes
7. What are the main motives for firesetting? - ANSWER ✔ Vandalism
Excitement
Revenge
Crime concealment
Profit
Extremism
8. What is vandalism firesetting? - ANSWER ✔ Willfull and malicious
mischief - often pressured by groups or peers
9. What is excitement firesetting? - ANSWER ✔ Thrill seeking
Attention seeking
Recognition
Sexual gratification
10.What is revenge firesetting? - ANSWER ✔ Personal retaliation
Societal retaliation
Institutional retaliation (school, church, etc)
Group retaliation
11.What is crime concealment firesetting? - ANSWER ✔ Murder concealment
Burglary concealment
Destruction of documents
,12.What is extremism firesetting? - ANSWER ✔ Terrorism
Riots or civil distrurbance
13.What are some things to examine in multiple confirmed incendiary fires? -
ANSWER ✔ Geographic area
Temporal frequency (time)
Materials & Method of firesetting
14.What are some indicators of incendiary fires? - ANSWER ✔ Evidence of
other crimes (crime concealment)
Indicators of financial stress
History of code violations
Owner with multiple fires
Over insurance
Timed oppportunity (civil unrest, natural disaster)
15.Other indicators that a fire is incendiary: - ANSWER ✔ Remote locations
Fire near service equipment / appliances
Removal or replacement of contents prior to fire
Entry blocked
Sabotage of fire protection systems
Multiple Fires
Trailers
Lack of fuel load / ignition sources
Exotic accelerants
Unsual fuel load
burn injuries
Incendiary devices
16.What is the difference between low order and high order explosions? -
ANSWER ✔ Low order = less than the speed of sound, pushing / bulging
damage, slow pressure rise
17.High order = faster than the speed of sound, breaking / shattering, long range
missiles, rapid pressure rise
, 18.What is a seated explosion? - ANSWER ✔ Seated explosions have a blast
crater in the center of the explosion. Generally caused by high explosives
like TNT, PETN, RDX, ANFO.
19.combustion - ANSWER ✔ chemical process of oxidation that occurs at a
rate fast enough to produce heat and usually light, in form of glow or flames
20.conduction - ANSWER ✔ heat transfer by direct contact
21.convection - ANSWER ✔ heat transfer by circulation via medium, such as
gas or liquid
22.diffusion flame - ANSWER ✔ flame in which fuel and air mix or diffuse
together at region of combustion
23.energy - ANSWER ✔ property of matter manifested as an ability to perform
work, by moving an object against a force, or by transferring heat
24.exothermic reaction - ANSWER ✔ A reaction that releases energy in the
form of heat
25.fire - ANSWER ✔ rapid oxidation process / chemical reaction resulting in
evolution of light and heat in varying intensities
26.fire dynamics - ANSWER ✔ The detailed study of how chemistry, fire
science, and the engineering disciplines of fluid mechanics and heat transfer
interact to influence fire behavior.
27.fire point - ANSWER ✔ The temperature at which enough vapors are given
off to support continuous burning.
28.flashover - ANSWER ✔ Stage of a fire at which all surfaces and objects
within a space have been heated to their ignition temperature, and flame
breaks out almost at once over the surface of all objects in the space.
29.What do fluorescent lights and HID lights have in common? - ANSWER ✔
They all have ballasts, which can fail and cause a fire.