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The basic methodology of the fire investigation should rely on the use of a
______________________ and attention to all relevant details.
a. systematic approach
b. approximation approach
c. methodology approach
d. general approach - ✔✔a. systematic approach
With few exceptions, the proper methodolgy for a fire or explosion
investigation is to first _____________________ then investigate the
cause, circumstances, conditions, or agencies that brought the ignition
source, fuel, and oxidant together.
a. determine responsibility
b. determine and establish origin(s)
c. determine if it is a criminal action
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d. all of the above - ✔✔b. determine and establish origin(s)
The process of determining the origin, cause, development, and
responsibility as well as the failure analysis of a fire or explosion is the
definition of _________________________.
a. fire investigation
b. fire scene reconstruction
c. fire evaluation
d. fire analysis - ✔✔d. fire analysis
The process of determining the origin, cause, and responsibility for a fire or
explosion is ___________________________.
a. fire analysis
b. fire investigation
c. fire scene survey
d. fire evaluation - ✔✔b. fire investigation
The _____________________ is the systematic pursite of knowledge
involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of
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data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing
of a hypothesis.
a. scientific method
b. scientific examination
c. scientific survey
d. scientific theory - ✔✔a. scientific method
____________________ are the visible or measurable physical effects that
remain after a fire. These include thermal effects on materials, such as
charring, oxidation, consumption of combustibles, smoke and soot
deposits, distortion, melting, color changes, changes in character of
materials, structural collapse, and other effects.
a. Fire arrows
b. Fire pointers
c. Fire patterns
d. Flammable patterns - ✔✔c. Fire patterns
Distortion, breakage, deterioration, or other fault in an item, component,
system, assembly, or structure that results in unsatisfactory performance of
the function for which it was designed is called ________________.