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Technical Notebook: Fire Origin Analysis

Heat-related damage patterns at a fire scene yield clues as to where a fire originated. This article is a third in a series that discusses burn patterns and interpretations when attempting to determine the origin of a fire.

By Charles C. Roberts, Jr., Ph.D., P.E. | Updated on October 26, 2011

Heat-related damage patterns at a fire scene yield clues as to where a fire originated. This article is a third in a series that discusses burn patterns and interpretations when attempting to determine the origin of a fire. The first article1 dealt with burn and damage patterns on buildings and interpretations of the damage. The second article2 dealt with selected case studies regarding analysis of burn patterns. This third article presents additional case studies not mentioned in the previous two articles.

Photographs facilitate the discussion of burn patterns and are unique to a particular loss. Consequently, this article contains several photos of burn patterns from actual losses in a picture book format to act as a reference when analyzing a particular fire-related claim. 

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