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Fire Fatality Investigations 3.13.24 MD

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Ocean City Fire Department Hosts Fire Fatality Investigations
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Ocean City Fire Department HQ
1409 Philadelphia Ave.
Ocean City, MD 21842
Check in 7am - 8am
Class begins at 8am
Registration closes at 5pm Eastern, Sunday, March 10, 2024.

Dr. Elayne Pope, Ph. D is a Forensic Anthropologist who researches how the human body burns with applications to fatal fire casework. She received her doctorate from the University of Arkansas in 2007 for “The Effects of Fire on Human Remains.” Dr. Pope has been a researcher and instructor for the San Luis Obispo Fire Investigation Strike Team (SLO FIST) Fatal Fire Death Investigation Course since 2008 where human cadavers are utilized to recreate fatal fire scenes using structures, vehicles, and outdoor fire environments. Dr. Pope specializes in the analysis of traumatic injury and its implications for fatal fire investigations along with examining burn patterns of individual casework. Her training courses examine how the human body is an important type of physical evidence from fatal fire scenes and the value of evidence preservation for fatal fire casework.

The Fatal Fire Investigation Training Course is a scientific approach to how the human body burns in different types of fire scenes (structures, vehicles, confined space, and outdoors) for Law Enforcement, Fire Investigators, and Medicolegal Investigators. Training is derived from over a decade of experimental burn research with human cadavers in a variety of fire environments that are routinely encountered in forensic casework. The heat-related changes of the human body (burn damage and pugilistic positioning) are presented along with the types of physical evidence that survives for investigators at the fatal fire scene. 
Fatal Fire Investigation Training Course Topics:
•Introduction to normal burn patterns and heat related changes of the body during a fire.
•Normal heat-related changes for the arms, legs, torso, and head (natural stages of burning to full cremation) and their appearance/condition after the fire.
•Heat-related changes of preexisting traumatic injury from gunshot wounds, blunt force trauma, and sharp force trauma in burned human remains.
•Experimental case examples of vehicle fires, structure fires, outdoor fires, the use of ignitable liquids, and criminal attempts to destroy physical evidence of the body.
•Effects of suppression, post-fire changes to the body, and problems with improper handling of fragile burned human remains/evidence from the scene.
•Fatal fire scene documentation, evidence handling, the autopsy, and methods of victim identification from bodies that were ‘burned beyond recognition’.

Fees:
IAAI Member Price $285.00 
Non-IAAI Member Price $425.00 
Credit / Debit Card payments only, if you must use a check or use other means:
Please contact: IAAI-Training@firearson.com

Hotels within walking Distance

Courtyard by Marriott-Ocean City Oceanfront
#2 - 15th Street, Ocean City, MD 21842
Marriott.com
410-289-5008

Hyatt Place Ocean City-Oceanfront
#1 - 16th Street, Ocean City, MD 21842
Hyatt.com
410-213-5333

Holiday Inn & Suites
1701 Atlantic Avenue, Ocean City, MD 21842
ihg.com
410-289-7263


Any questions? IAAI-Training@firearson.com



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