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20th Annual ICAC National Arson Investigation Training Seminar
February 9-12, 2009 | Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort
This year’s program incorporates over 70% new and current topics. Among them are:
· Mortgage Crisis and it’s Effect on Fire Claims
· Cell Phone information as an Investigation Tool
· Vehicle Fire Investigations, as per the new Chapter in 921
· Advanced Fire and Appliance Investigations
· Motive and Investigation Techniques
· Undetermined Fires - Why So Many? and Other “Hot” Topics
· “Write Makes Right”, Effective Communications in Investigations
· Cognitive Interviewing Analysis and Techniques
Continuing education credit for this seminar is available with the Florida
Department of Financial Services and the National Association of Fire
Investigators (NAFI).
Click here to view the seminar details and register online: http://www.arsoncontrol.org/seminar/09seminar.htm
Esperanza Fire Trial
Esperanza Fire suspect set 46 blazes, district attorney contends
Raymond Lee Oyler set twice as many fires as he is charged with, including several on the day of the October 2006 Esperanza Fire that fatally burned five U.S. Forest Service firefighters, prosecutors claim in court documents.
Jurors being selected for arson, murder trial
Oyler's defense attorney wants to present evidence that a US Forest Service arson investigator was being watched by Forest Service agents as a possible perpetrator.
Another suspect was looked at in Esperanza Fire probe
An interesting article from November reflects on the US Forest Service investigator that defense attorneys want to present as a possible other suspect/offender.
Judge rules against prosecutors in Esperanza Fire case
Prosecutors mostly failed Friday in their bid to tell jurors in Raymond Lee Oyler's upcoming murder and arson trial that Oyler set twice as many blazes as the charges against him claim.
Other stories
Investigators: Firefighters Committed Arson for More Pay
Volunteer firefighters with the Ehrenberg Fire District are apparently paid by the hour for each fire they tackle. Investigators believe the suspects started the fires to make more money.
Flames, claims and automobiles
Arson is just one of the behavioural changes that drive up claims against insurance companies when economic growth stalls.
Affidavit provides details of Macedonia Church fire probe
The affidavit by a special agent of the FBI also contains references to drug use and multiple arsons by at least two of the men charged with the church fire. It shows the FBI, state and local police used an informant and an undercover state trooper to conduct the investigation, which led to the arrests Friday of the three men, all of whom live near where the church was being built.
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