- Author
- Kauffman, F. J. | Grimes, M. E.
- Title
- FIFI: Fire Information Field Investigation.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS SP 411,
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Fire Safety Research. Proceedings of a Symposium. August 22, 1973, Gaithersburg, MD, 215-229 p., 1973
- Keywords
- fire investigations
- Abstract
- The Research Phase of FIFI defined and evaluated those state-of-the-art investigation techniques used at the scene of fires to report on the cause and circumstances of those fires. The two most significant conclusions reached during the research phase were (a) that very little literature is available to an officer interested in studying methods of general) fire cause determination, since most existing literature is arson oriented, and (b) that standardized training programs in systematic investigative practices do not exist. The Development Phase of the project isolated the most valid of the investigative techniques evaluated in the research phase, and synthesized them into a new, simplified, logical, process-of-elimination investigation sequence known as HEP (Hexagonal Elimination Process) based on the NFPA Standard 901, Coding System For Fire Reporting. Two prototype training packages were developed; designed to aid firefighters in carrying out the systematic HEP investigations. The prototype training packages were field tested in six fire departments of varying sizes and types.