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2019 CT IAAI Arson Investigator's Seminar

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June -2019- CTIAAI Training

"How to Prepare to Testify as an Expert Witness"

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2019 Advanced Fire Investigation School

The class of the 24th Connecticut Advanced Fire Investigation School sponsored by the Connecticut State Police -Fire & Explosion Investigation Unit, in cooperation with the CT Chapter of IAAI, graduated May 3, 2019. Special thank you to the Connecticut Fire Academy for their continued unwaivering support.

AFIS 2019

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Polls

According to the USFA, which is the leading cause of nonresidential building fires between 2008-2017

	Cooking
	Unintentional/Careless
	Intentional
	Electrical Malfunction
	Heating

Daily News

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Michigan university developing statewide mental health program to address stress among first responders, their families
The Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences has teamed with the State of Michigan to develop a comprehensive behavioral and mental health training and support program for the state’s first responders and their families to address the stress they face in their duties protecting residents.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wayne State University
Firefighter makes history as highest ranking woman in Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire
VIDEO: During Women's History Month, a firefighter in Pittsburgh is making her own type of history by becoming the highest-ranking female in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire. Kari Burnham said, "This is something I love to do. It's like a dream come true." Burnham's passion is being a firefighter. Now she takes the title of lieutenant, which is an accomplishment that puts her in the history books as the highest-ranking woman in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTAE-TV ABC 4 Pittsburgh
West Virginia city remembers heroes who died in 1949 Woolworth fire
VIDEO: Thursday marked 72 years since the Charleston Fire Department lost seven of their crew members in the tragic Woolworth fire. The City of Charleston joined the Charleston Fire Department and the Charleston Firefighter’s Local Union 317 to honor those seven who died in a special ceremony this morning.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOWK-TV CBS 13 Huntington

In the News

NYT > Arson

Ex-Police Chief Charged With Attempted Murder After Arson Spree
Investigators said David M. Crawford, who resigned as the police chief of Laurel, Md., in 2010, had targeted “victims with whom he had previous disagreements.”
Refugee Who Set Herself on Fire in Greece Is Charged With Arson
A woman set fire to her tent on the island of Lesbos in a suicide attempt after her family’s relocation to Germany was delayed.
Chile Police Shooting of Street Juggler Leads to Protests
Protesters were outraged by the killing, which was recorded on video. Ten public offices burned to the ground, leaving a city of almost 34,000 practically without public services.