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2018 Advanced Fire Investigation School

The class of the 23rd 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 4, 2018. The class presented the instructors with a plaque dedicated to the legacy of the late, Retired Detective John Sawyer. Special thank you to the Connecticut Fire Academy for their continued unwaivering support

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2017 CT IAAI Arson Investigator's Seminar

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For-Profit Firefighters Find Business In An At-Risk Oregon Community
No one was home at a house deep in the woods of Josephine County, Oregon. The people who live here had evacuated days ago along with hundreds of their neighbors. As flames from the Taylor Creek Fire got closer and closer, the firefighters showed up. They came to prepare for the worst so that if the wind picked up, they’d be ready to dash down the driveway and save this house, even if the forest burned around it.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oregon Public Broadcasting
California fire chiefs seek $42 million cash infusion to bolster services, staffing
Fire officials on Tuesday will ask the Board of Supervisors to approve a $42 million annual plan calling for more firefighters and new fire stations to plug response holes in the county — with a recommendation of a half-cent countywide sales tax hike to voters next year to fund it. The plan would add about 175 paid firefighters, many of them paramedics, to bolster the county’s current paid firefighting force of 400.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Harassment, Bullying A Focus At World Firefighters Conference In Dallas
Fire chiefs from across the world are gathered in Dallas for the annual Fire-Rescue International Conference put on by the International Association of Fire Chiefs. This year the association says it’s dedicated to addressing bullying and harassment within fire department ranks. Retired South Fulton, Georgia Fire Chief David Daniels is leading a task force on the issue at the conference.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Dallas Fort Worth

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Arson

News about arson. Commentary and archival information about arson from The New York Times.

Man Charged With Arson in Southern California’s Holy Fire
The role the suspect is alleged to have played in the fire has provoked anger and outrage within Orange County and across the state of California.
Arson Is Suspected in Deadly Fires in Greece, Government Says
The death toll in the first this week rose to at least 84, with many more people still missing, in the worst disaster in the country’s recent history.
Arson Suspect Arrested as Cranston Fire Rages in California
The suspect was charged with five counts of arson as the wildfire expanded through mountains in the south of the state, eventually spreading across 7,500 acres.

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