Fire Effects Inspection Section

Fire is not just an accident, it grows to the disasters which makes fire study in criminal research requiring a lot of effort, concentration and patience, as this area has so much difficulties that distinguish it from the others. The importance of using scientific methods and means to inspect and examine those types of accidents is evident. For fire accident it requires to have combined key factors which is known as the fire triangle:-

Inflammable material
Source of heat
Air or oxygen

How easier it is to break out the fire and how harder it is to control it. In most cases the reasons of fire would be blur and invisible as a result of the spread and speed of the fire, wherein it is not possible to make use of it in which case long study and research requires to have any chance of disclosure about it, where many physical criminal effects are exposed that help detection of the fire damage as a result of exposure to fire or affect by fire water or as a result of the wrong dealing by those who work at the scene. The fire incidents shall have special features that make them different from other crimes, where they stand apart especially in the extent of the devastating impact and the way of committing and style of their technical treatment and inspection.

Tasks and functions of Fire Effects Inspection Section

• Inspection of all types of fires in buildings, vehicles and machines.
• Inspection of explosion incidents from gas, dusts and fumes of highly inflammable materials.
• Identify the area of fire break out.
• Lifting debris and residues resulting out of the fire carefully to ensure preservation of the rest of the physical effects of whether it is by vertical or horizontal manner.
• Conduct the necessary analysis of the samples to indicate whether there are effects of the remains of exotic materials about the nature of the assets in place such as highly inflammable petroleum or alcoholic materials.
• Reach into various causes of fires.