{"id":16608,"date":"2022-02-04T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T11:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/?post_type=news&p=16608"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:14:34","slug":"dr-andrew-moncrieff-gives-a-webinar-on-arson-for-the-association-of-insurance-surveyors","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/news\/dr-andrew-moncrieff-gives-a-webinar-on-arson-for-the-association-of-insurance-surveyors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Andrew Moncrieff Gives a Webinar on Arson for The Association of Insurance Surveyors"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On 31 January,\u00a0Dr Andrew Moncrieff\u00a0<\/a>spoke (virtually) to 42 members of the AIS about arson, and techniques that Hawkins use to determine whether a fire was set deliberately or not.<\/p>

This webinar covered the typical signs of arson that forensic engineers look out for when investigating fires. Dr Moncrieff also talked about the importance of a thorough scene examination and the dangers of misinterpreting patterns of fire damage. His presentation provided a great example of a fire scene that\u00a0looked<\/i>\u00a0as if it were the result of multiple fires being set in different areas of a kitchen, but was actually caused by the accidental ignition of a clothes drying rack by a discarded cigarette in a nearby bin.<\/p>

With the drying rack removed from the scene after the fire was extinguished, it looked like there were 3 seats of fire (i.e. multiple points where a fire has started, which usually means arson). However, when the drying rack was repositioned in the kitchen, it was clear that it linked the three different seats of fire, and the patterns were the result of fire spread, not deliberate separate ignition sites.<\/p>

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