Download or read book Fires Accidental Or Arson written by Richard J. Keyworth and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Richard J. Keyworth's account of 14 of the innumerable fires he investigated will intrigue, inform and educate fellow firefighters and law enforcement professionals. Because fire is mystical at times and practical at others, this book will entrance the general public as well.

Download or read book Fire Cops written by Michael Sasser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the big cities to dense forests to disasters at sea, authors Michael Sasser and Charles W. Sasser present some of the toughest cases and most harrowing missions faced by arson investigators. A brutal inferno snuffs out the lives of eighty-seven at the Happy Land Social Club in New York City... The Branch Davidians torch their compound in Waco, Texas, killing eighty-one men, women and children… Flames engulf the streets of Detroit on its deadliest Devil’s Day… In each case, some of America’s most intrepid detectives were on the case, seeking out the truth amid the ashes. Here are the toughest cases from real arson investigators—men and women who apply steely determination and extraordinary skills in the pursuit of one goal: to catch scheming profiteers, vicious vandals, and diabolical pyromaniacs. Where the untrained eye sees nothing but destruction, these investigators see clues—and they plunge undaunted into the charred debris of destroyed buildings and incinerated lives to seek them out. From big cities to dense forests to disasters at sea, they bring one vow to every case: to never let justice go up in smoke.

Download or read book Practical Fire and Arson Investigation written by David R. Redsicker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-10-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling second edition introduces new case studies to illustrate concepts explained in the text and includes information about eliminating accidental causes of fires and investigating fatal fires. Additional information on studies in bloodstain evidence found at fire scenes is presented as well. The book also addresses the National Fire Protection Association Standards 921, regarding proper fire investigation procedures, and NFPA Standards 1033, Fire Investigator Qualifications. The NFPA Standards are the recognized standards in the industry, and are essential information for all fire investigators, from rookies to veterans.

Download or read book Fire and Arson Scene Evidence written by National Institute of Justice (U.S.). Technical Working Group on Fire/Arson Scene Investigation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book All Russia Is Burning written by Cathy A. Frierson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-11-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles’ worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia’s economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia’s becoming a modern society in the European model. Using sources ranging from literary representations and newspaper articles to statistical tables and court records, Frierson demonstrates the many meanings fire held for both peasants and the educated elite. To peasants, it was an essential source of light and warmth as well as a destructive force that regularly ignited their cramped villages of wooden, thatch-roofed huts. Absent the rule of law, they often used arson to gain justice or revenge, or to exert social control over those who would violate village norms. Frierson shows that the vast majority of arson cases in European Russia were not peasant-against-gentry acts of protest but peasant-against-peasant acts of "self-help" law or plain spite. Both the state and individual progressives set out to resolve the fire question and to educate, cajole, or coerce the peasantry into the modern world. Fire insurance, building codes, "scientific" village layouts, and volunteer firefighting brigades reduced the average number of buildings consumed in each blaze, but none of these measures succeeded in curbing the number of fires each year. More than anything else, this history of fire and arson in rural European Russia is a history of their cultural meanings in the late imperial campaign for modernity. Frierson shows the special associations of women with fire in rural life and in elite understanding of fire in the Russian countryside. Her study of the fire question demonstrates both peasant agency in fighting fire and educated Russians' hardening conviction that peasants stood in the way of Russia's advent into the company of prosperous, rational, civilized nations.

Download or read book Setting Fires written by Kate Wenner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting Fires is the gripping story of Annie Fishman Waldmas, a documentary filmmaker, wife, and mother of two young children, who uses her professional skills to unravel the shocking secrets behind the two fires that come to dominate and haunt her life. The novel begins with a pair of phone calls that shatter Annie's contentment forever. The first brings news that Annie's country house in Connecticut has burned, in an area where two other Jewish-owned buildings have also recently burned down. The second and far more distressing call informs Annie that her beloved father -- the family patriarch, burdened by a lifelong shame that Annie will soon uncover -- has been diagnosed with cancer. Gradually, as Annie and her father forge a new and closer bond, he is able to acknowledge his history of poverty, his struggle for survival, and the near-tragedy it led to. Annie's determination to help her father find peace and forgiveness before dying meshes inextricably with her determination to find and expose the anti-Semitic arsonist who threatens her own family. Annie's passionate search reaches back four generations from the early roots of the Fishman clan in Russia and New York to the modern-day lives of Annie, her siblings, and their divorced parents. At the same time, it throws Annie's relationships with her own husband and children into chaos, and rocks the family life on which she has always depended for stability and support. Not until Annie discovers and resolves the final truths -- by her own wit, perseverance, and self-knowledge -- can she reestablish the harmony she treasures. Kate Wenner, an award-winning former producer of 20/20, makes a startling fiction debut in this powerful novel about a courageous woman's struggle to come to terms with a complex family history.

Download or read book California Fire and Life written by Don Winslow and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL. When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld. Jack Wade was the rising star of the Orange County Sheriffs Department’s arson unit, but a minor scandal cost him everything, except his encyclopedic knowledge of fire. Now working as an insurance claims investigator, Jack is called in to examine a suspicious claim: within hours of a disastrous blaze tearing through a wing of real estate mogul Nicky Vale’s house— causing the horrific death of his young wife—he filed a 3 million-dollar insurance claim. The tracks of the fire tell Jack that something's wrong, and as he follows the evidence the case grows to involve the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, real estate scams, counterfeiting and corporate corruption. Things get so hot and deadly that Jack might not make it out alive . . . that is until he decides to fight fire with fire.

Download or read book Burn Boston Burn written by Wayne Miller and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire Lover written by Joseph Wambaugh and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt forthe most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century—in this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that’s “stranger than fiction” (The New York Times). From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the “Pillow Pyro,” led by one ambitious firefighter. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized law enforcement. However, after being rejected by both the LAPD and LAFD, he settled for a position with the Glendale Fire Department. There, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a fire captain and one of Southern California’s best-known and most respected arson investigators. But Orr led another, unseen life, one that included womanizing and an insatiable thirst for recognition. While Orr busted a slew of petty arsonists, there was one serial criminal he could not track down. Nothing was safe from the so-called Pillow Pyro’s obsession. Homes, retail stores, and fields of dry brush all went up in flames. His handiwork led to millions of dollars worth of property damage and the deaths of four innocent bystanders. But after years of evading the police, he made a mistake—one that would turn Orr’s life upside down. The Washington Post raves, “When [Joseph Wambaugh] talks about the culture of cops versus the culture of firemen, we get no speculation, only hard-earned details.” Based on meticulous research, interviews, case records, and thousands of pages of court transcripts, Fire Lover is Wambaugh at his best.

Download or read book Handbook on Firesetting in Children and Youth written by David J. Kolko and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, much research has been conducted on why young people start fires inappropriately, but more crucially on how to keep them from doing so. Psychologists, fire prevention specialists, and investigators from around the US share what has been learned about identifying those who set fires and programs for deterring them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland.

Download or read book Fire Officer written by Michael Ward and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Officer: Principles and Practice covers NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, 2003 Edition for the Fire Officer I & II levels, from fire officer communications to managing fire incidents. The text is the core of the teaching and learning system with features that will reinforce and expand on the essential information and make information retrieval a snap. It combines current content with dynamic features and interactive technology to better support instructors and help prepare future fire officers for any situation that may arise.

Download or read book Blaze written by Nicholas Faith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true tale of modern science and a deadly killer traces the twenty-five-year war on fire waged by forensic experts who cut the fire-related mortality rate from 12,000 to 5,000.

Download or read book Nfpa 921 Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations 2008 Edition written by NFPA and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smoke But No Fire written by Jessica S. Henry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner, Silver (Political and Social Sciences) Winner of the Montaigne Medal, awarded to "the most thought-provoking books" The first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction—one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened. Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions. The first book to explore this common but previously undocumented type of wrongful conviction, Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect. A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows—even encourages—these convictions to regularly occur. Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, activists, and the general public alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.

Download or read book Fire at Sea written by Thomas Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire Investigator written by International Association of Arson Inves and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource is designed to encourage critical thinking and aid comprehension of the course material. The Student Workbook also includes an answer key that is page referenced to the Fire Investigator: Principles and Practice to NFPA 921 and 1033 text.

Download or read book The Arsonist Profiles written by Ed Nordskog and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Detective Ed Nordskog is an internationally recognized expert on arson, serial arson, criminal bombers and arsonists. The Arsonist Profiles is his third book describing the unique crimes of arson and serial arson, and the individuals who commit them.Nordskog approaches this subject from a very unique perspective. He is the senior arson investigator for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (largest and busiest arson/bomb unit in the United States) and has personally conducted over 2,000 arson investigations. He has been a cop for over thirty years and a Detective for twenty-six years. Nordskog not only has studied and written extensively about serial arsonists, he has been a Lead Investigator or co-Investigator on over 55 serial arson investigations, and has advised other police and fire agencies on several more. He has personally studied over 900 serial arson cases from around the world.Nordskog is one of only a small handful of arson profilers in the world and probably the only one working as an active detective on arson and bomb cases. As part of his daily duties, Det. Nordskog visits arson scenes, processes evidence, develops leads, and then tracks down the fire offender. He has been involved in the arrests and prosecutions of over 300 arsonists in his career. Several of those arsonists have been sentenced to decades in prison, while a couple more have been sentenced to Death.Det. Nordskog differs from other profilers in this field as he is able to sit face to face and interview the arsonist in their most vulnerable and candid moments; that first few hours after their arrest. It is at this important juncture that the truth often comes out. The arsonist is usually too exhausted or disoriented to form coherent lies and has not been contaminated with alibis and excuses by jailhouse lawyers, defense attorneys, and psychologists. Nordskog has looked into the eyes of the arsonists as they speak. He has talked to their victims, their families, and their friends. He has searched their homes and rooms and read their emails, texts, computer searches and journals. He has delved into the lair of the arsonist and has found as much truth as there is to find.By these standard investigation techniques, Nordskog has accumulated information and helped refine and develop profiling techniques for these unique offenders. He has learned that arsonists are not easily defined and are extremely complex criminals. No single profile fits all and Nordskog has learned of several types and sub-types in this genre. He knows that most arsonists are classified best by the motive of their attacks and by the sophistication of the ignition scenario.In The Arsonist Profiles, Det. Ed Nordskog breaks down the motives of arson and the sub-types within the motives. He talks about the "red flags of arson", staging arson scenes, targeting methods of arsonists, pattern analysis and incendiary device analysis.Nordskog describes the sub-types of arsonists to include; females, juveniles, gang/organized crime groups, profit related arson, extremist groups, and the most common motive of all, the revenge based arsonists.As usual Nordskog tells his stories through detailed analysis of his own arson investigations and from those of other recognized investigators in the field. The short case histories are raw and honest and highlight both the good and bad of arson investigation and the criminal justice system.This third book, The Arsonist Profiles is a natural follow-up by Nordskog to his first two books; "Torchered Minds-Case histories of notorious serial arsonists"; and "Fireraisers, Freaks, and Fiends-Obsessive Arsonists in the California foothills". Nordskog's books are "must reads" for all criminal investigators, prosecutors, fire chiefs and true crime buffs. They should also be required reading for any mental health professionals who are dabbling in this field.