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#1 Posted : 16 July 2008 16:22:00(UTC)
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Posted By garyh
I have found a NEBOSH fire cert question "identify 8 post fire indicators". Try as I might I can;t find this in my course notes.........can anyone help?
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#2 Posted : 16 July 2008 16:58:00(UTC)
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Posted By NJS
Hi,

not sure if this is what your after but here goes, post fire indicators include smoke stains, water damage, twisted metal etc etc.

hope that helps

Nick
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#3 Posted : 16 July 2008 19:05:00(UTC)
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Posted By GeoffB4
And I immediately thought of petrol can, matches, damage to those parts not burned etc.......
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#4 Posted : 16 July 2008 23:32:00(UTC)
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Posted By Derek Housley

Tolley's "Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Management:- Principles and Practice" covers this in quite some depth and part of the document can be found on Google.

It is a specialist area post fire investigation, but factors that need to be taken into account include fire loading, location of material, type of material, ventilation.

The area in and around the fire may give clues to how the fire started and spread. For example whether plaster is on or off the wall is a good indicator to the ferocity of the fire, however the plaster may have been knocked off the walls by fire-fighting jets.

One of the key points re post fire indicators is the questioning of persons who were in and around the area before the start of the fire and at its early stages. For example in the Windsor Castle fire, this questioning led to the identified cause of the fire.

All the very best to you in your studies.

Derek




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#5 Posted : 17 July 2008 09:06:00(UTC)
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Posted By DPK
Garyh

All a post fire indicator is, is a clue to how the fire started and spread.

So you may consider evidence such as, e.g. forced entry to the building, evidence of an accelerant(white spirit), positioning of furniture, burn pattern ect...

You can also inspect service inspection manuals, but it isn't much more complicated than that.

Hope this helps.

DPK
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#6 Posted : 17 July 2008 09:22:00(UTC)
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Posted By Guderian
Post fire indicator...

1. Upon driving along your road on the way home from work, you observe a wacking big red truck with the words 'Fire and Rescue' on the side.

2. A smouldering ruin behind the said big red truck.

3. Lots of hunky chaps with yellow helmets on, hanging around.

4. Terrified cat in the garden.

5. You find your house insurance expired last week
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#7 Posted : 17 July 2008 12:18:00(UTC)
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Posted By garyh
Some fire fighters are women...........
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#8 Posted : 17 July 2008 13:44:00(UTC)
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Posted By DPK
They sure are.

But this ones not and i am going with hunky, so let that be the end of it.
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#9 Posted : 17 July 2008 15:39:00(UTC)
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Posted By water67.
So what's wrong with a "hunky women", .. answers by telegram only!!! from hunky women of course!!!
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#10 Posted : 18 July 2008 11:58:00(UTC)
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Posted By D. Hilton
Gary
The following post fire indicators may be used to locate the seat/origin of a fire

Low level burning
high level burning
Smoke spread
Spalling
Glass fracture & melting
Melting & distortion of metals
Melting and degradation of plastics
Char depth/burning effects of timber
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