\nFire Fatality Investigations
\nWednesday\, Sep tember 27\, 2023
\n136 Drury Inn &\; Suites St. Louis Forest Park
\n2111 Sulphur
\nSaint Louis\, MO 63139
\nCheck in/Breakf ast 7am - 8am
\nClass begins at 8am
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\nRegistration closes at 5pm Eastern\, Sunday\, September 24\, 2023.

Dr. Elayne Pope\, Ph. D is a Forensic Anthropologist who researches h ow the human body burns with applications to fatal fire casework. She rece ived her doctorate from the University of Arkansas in 2007 for &ldquo\;The Effects of Fire on Human Remains.&rdquo\; 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 cadave rs are utilized to recreate fatal fire scenes using structures\, vehicles\ , and outdoor fire environments. Dr. Pope specializes in the analysis of t raumatic injury and its implications for fatal fire investigations along w ith examining burn patterns of individual casework. Her training courses e xamine how the human body is an important type of physical evidence from f atal fire scenes and the value of evidence preservation for fatal fire cas ework.

The Fatal Fire Inves tigation Training Course is a scientific approach to how the human body bu rns in different types of fire scenes (structures\, vehicles\, confined sp ace\, and outdoors) for Law Enforcement\, Fire Investigators\, and Medicol egal 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 o f the human body (burn damage and pugilistic positioning) are presented al ong with the types of physical evidence that survives for investigators at the fatal fire scene. \;
\nFatal Fire Investigation Train ing Course Topics:
\n&bull\;Introduction to normal burn patterns and heat related changes of the body during a fire.
\n&bull\;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.< br />\n&bull\;Heat-related changes of preexisting traumatic injury from gu nshot wounds\, blunt force trauma\, and sharp force trauma in burned human remains.
\n&bull\;Experimental case examples of vehicle fires\, stru cture fires\, outdoor fires\, the use of ignitable liquids\, and criminal attempts to destroy physical evidence of the body.
\n&bull\;Effects o f suppression\, post-fire changes to the body\, and problems with improper handling of fragile burned human remains/evidence from the scene.
\n &bull\;Fatal fire scene documentation\, evidence handling\, the autopsy\, and methods of victim identification from bodies that were &lsquo\;burned beyond recognition&rsquo\;.

\nFees:

IAAI Member Price $285.00 \;

Non-IAAI M ember Price $425.00 \;

\nCredit / Debit Card payments onl y\, if you must use a check or use other means:
\nPlease contact:&nbs p\;IAAI-Training@firearson.com\n

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Any questions? IAAI-Training@firearson.com

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