Our guest today specializes in heavy machinery fires, principally mining machines, and she has some wild stories and crucial takeaways from these complicated cases that are applicable to fire investigations of all types.
Apr 17
55 min
With us today is Michael Rushton, a Professional Engineer and Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator with over 15 years of public and private fire investigation experience.
Jan 21
52 min
Today, we’re diving into marine fire investigation with Adam Holloway. Some pretty high profile incidents have been in the news, including the line-of-duty deaths of two Newark, NJ Fire Department firefighters aboard a docked cargo ship loaded with over a thousand vehicles and eleven people hospitalized for smoke inhalation when a fan on a Navy ship malfunctioned.
Nov 19, 2025
31 min
Dr. Pope is here to share cases in which fire effects, patterns, and evidence associated with human bodies made a critical difference in origin and cause determination.
Mar 20, 2025
41 min
What can fire investigators do to help themselves and each other stay mentally healthy given the difficult and sometimes emotionally challenging work they do?
Nov 21, 2024
29 min
This month, the CFITrainer.Net podcast welcomes Captain Chase Hawthorne of the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal to talk about the bizarre case that won him the 2024 IAAI Investigator of the Year Award.
Jun 19, 2024
1 hr 11 min
We discuss mentorship, from both the mentor and mentee perspectives, with Steve Avato, retired ATF Supervisory Special Agent CFI and Fire Marshal Captain with the Loudoun County Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office.
Jan 16, 2024
49 min
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