FIRE INVESTIGATION EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024
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FIRE INVESTIGATION EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024
who is involved at fire? - ANSW//-fire dept
-police dept
-insurance companies
-private fire investigators
-attorneys
-victims of fire damage
T or F: Overall stats are decreasing - ANSW//true
why are stats decreasing? - AN...
FIRE INVESTIGATION EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS 2024
who is involved at fire? - ANSW//-fire dept
-police dept
-insurance companies
-private fire investigators
-attorneys
-victims of fire damage
T or F: Overall stats are decreasing - ANSW//true
why are stats decreasing? - ANSW//-fire prevention (technology)
-training
-composition
-increased education of citizens
-Dr. Paul Kirk
-NFPA 1921
published by fire investigators as guide to fire investigation
-became protocol, despite the fact that every scene is different - ANSW//NFPA 921
how many fires are intentional? - ANSW//8-13%
Actual fires that are arson? - ANSW//40%, undetermined probably incendiary
"Body of the Crime"
-burning of property
, -burning was started intentionally
-burning was used to cause harm - ANSW//corpus delecti
in order to prove arson, investigator must rule out all other sources of case - ANSW//negative
corpus delecti
is proving motive required for arson? - ANSW//no
conclusively establishes a fact without inference or presumption
-eyewitness - ANSW//direct evidence
alleged facts that are proven by inference or deduction from other facts that can be testified
firsthand - ANSW//circumstantial evidence
probable cause/warrant - ANSW//4th amendment
evidence seized is subject to review; evidence from an illegal search is inadmissible in court
"Fruit of the Poisoned Tree" - ANSW//exclusionary rule
Exceptions to a warrant: - ANSW//-exigence
-see vs. seattle
-consent
-abandonment
-plain view
investigation can be carried out immediately in the absence of a search warrant if there is a high
probability that evidence would be lost and the fire dept is on the scene - ANSW//exigence
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