Location and elevation are essentially further describing proximity. They found that that floor patterns caused by ignitable liquids might be minimal because they can easily be destroyed and because the short duration of exposure due to fuel consumption. Their example is as follows, if the investigator decides he has located a seat of fire within a radius of error of 1m, he is certain that the original seat of fire lays within an area having one metres [sic] radius (i.e. This should and generally is, close to the low point of the burn (Kirk 1969). He then recorded the maximum lateral distances at which the target fuels were scorched, charred, or ignited. The fire pattern studies revealed that specific damage cues identified during fuel-controlled conditions were not as prevalent during ventilation-controlled conditions. Grant No. Fire Research Station Note No. Such data include the patterns produced by the fire (NFPA 2014). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 2003). Grant No. Other areas of science regularly deal with inverse problems typically through extensive mathematical study. The use of 2 springs running parallel to each other allows for equal pressure on each side of the tool (Fig. Selecting a final area of origin hypothesis. Therefore, fire investigators within most fire scenes typically find charred material. More validity and reliability studies are required for these methods. When lacking a systematic approach to solving complex problems, many professions have turned to decision support frameworks, tools or methods, the intent of which are to guide the decision by asking questions and helping to assess the weight or importance of variables. Gorbett, G.E., Meacham, B.J., Wood, C.B. [5] The shape of the curve reflects the variability of general intuitional availability.This means once intuition levels increase but also s/he can make more higher order intuitive connections/understandings given a corresponding increase in expertise. Examples of Fire Patterns. Fire tests in a scaled compartment using a propane sand-burner were designed to rapidly progress through flashover with a short period of full room involvement. The literature review is limited to structure fire studies. Combustion and Flame 132:157159, Pennsylvania (USA), Sugawa O, Kawagoe K, Oka K, Ogahara I (1989) Burning behavior in a poorly ventilated compartment fire ghosting fire. This first edition was also the first time fire patterns were organized into one document. Arson investigators were surveyed about how they investigate fires and cited interpretation of alligatoring as one of the most common methods of establishing arson. Photograph of a Conical-Shaped Fire Pattern along a concrete block wall (fire origin was located under the stack of wooden pallets-fire test conducted at EKU by author). Paper presented at InterFlam99. This test was conducted as part of a conference where the participants of the conference were to evaluate the fire scenes for origin. This study also noted that it was evident that the water did not wash all of the deposited material away from the wall or ceiling surface because the patterns had a color which was lighter than the surrounding area but not as light as a clean burn or protected area (Shanley et al. sill height (0.812m). These studies contended that the use of the heat and flame vector analysis enabled the investigator to determine the true area of origin. As shown in the literature search, no system exists and therefore this assumption is unwarranted by previous researchers (Carman 2008; Tinsley and Gorbett 2013; Gorbett et al. However, this area of damage was not identified in comparison studies performed in acquired structures where the opening was connected to an adjacent compartment within the house. Wiley, Chichester (UK), Taylor R (1985) Carpet, Wood Floor and Concrete Burn Patterns Often Are Not From Flammable LiquidsAre a highly misunderstood aspect of fire investigation. Liquids Versus Melted Solids. A survey was conducted to evaluate the proficiency of professional fire investigators at determining the area of origin when provided with photographs and measurable data from a test (Tinsley and Gorbett 2013). The central theme is that the investigator can section off a room and can use the location of ventilation openings as a predictor of the location and magnitude of damage based on the location of this ventilation and the predicted airflow from these openings. NFPA 921 further lists that fire patterns can be classified by their generation or causal relationship to the fire dynamics by providing the following classes: plume-generated patterns, ventilation-generated patterns, hot gas layer-generated patterns, full-room involvement-generated patterns and suppression-generated patterns (NFPA 2014). The upper layer is a term commonly given to the collection of smoke and heated gases during the progression of the fire near the upper regions of the compartment, typically near the ceiling. As used here, decision frameworks, tools or methods encompass any mechanism used to support the systematic identification and assessment of information deemed important to a decision, ranging from checklists to structured problem-diagnostic tools such as fault trees, event trees or decision trees, to computationally supported decision analysis tools. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Fire Investigations. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat and Mass Transfer in Fire and Combustion Systems, HTD 223:1119, Abib A, Jaluria Y (1992b) Penetrative convection in a partially open enclosure. Consequently, Kirk can be credited as the first person to describe the damage by a fire as a geometric shape. This quote, however, is not to generalize that the area of origin is to be equated with the area of greatest thermal damage outside of this specific test series. Fire Technology 16(2):95103, Article Other penetration patterns have arisen, which dealt more with determining the direction of fire spread from top down or bottom up. Physical changes include melting, deformation, expansion, or loss of tensile strength. 2010). Chapter 3, SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. However, Kirk elaborated on what the investigator should look for in evaluating this fire pattern when he stated because of the upward tendency of every fire, some type of inverted conical shape is characteristic, the apex at the bottom being the point of ignition, with the fire rising and spreading (Kirk 1969). Most recent studies consider taking the actual depth of calcination by using an instrument and probing it into the wall a more effective method (Mann and Putaansuu, 2010; Mealy and Gottuk, 2012; Kennedy et al. The influences of the U-shaped exterior wall geometry on upward flame spread over insulation material on plain and plateau were studied through laboratory-scale experiments. Encyclopedia Britannica Company, Chicago, www.Merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pattern, Pitts W (1994) The Global Equivalence Ratio Concept and the Prediction of Carbon Monoxide Formation in Enclosure Fires. This section has been divided into four subsections that evaluate the general location and type of fire patterns. 2010). They appear between the affected area and adjacent, less-affected areas (NFPA 2014). Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Noticeable patterns created by the fire as it burns. In addition, the ceiling jet velocity is highest near the centerline of the plume and decreases as it moves outward (Heskestad 2008). National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST GCR-96-703, Gaithersburg, MD, Minnich T (2000) Results of TWGFEX Scene Survey., http://ncfs.ucf.edu/twgfex/docs/Scene_Survey_Results.pdf. Fire and Arson Investigator Journal of the International Association of Arson Investigators 4:5558, Crofton, MD, Steckler K, Quintiere J, Rinkinen W (1982) Flow Induced by Fire in a Compartment. denser material like oak will generally show _____ lines of demarcation than carpet. In the Ngu study, a series of power law correlation plots were developed between the calcination of gypsum wallboard and the total heat exposure for various types and thicknesses of the material (2004). \This type of structured approach to reaching better decisions has been applied in various fields, from business and economic decisions (Clemen and Reilly 2001), to building and fire safety analysis and regulation (Donegan 2008; Meacham 2000), diagnostic support within the psychological, psychiatric and medical professions (Boorse 1976; DSM-IV-TR 2000), failure analysis (Benner 1975; Ericson 1999; Vesely et al. Thus, a fire investigator must have a solid grasp of the physics and variables that influence a fires development, as well as how these variables may or may not have influenced the damage outcome. Ultimately, the locations of damage and fire patterns are compared to the causal factors from the physics of the fire, alternative causes and background information. The following statistics were accumulated while performing the literature review and summarized here for VG fire patterns. For example, the location of fire department entry, the use of positive pressure ventilation and the change of ventilation upon arrival should result in fire patterns that are similar to ventilation-generated fire patterns. First, during fuel-controlled conditions ventilation has been shown to cause the fire plume to lean away from the source of ventilation due to momentum flows from the inflow, thus influencing the truncated cone shape (Shanley et al. The fire pattern studies revealed that the upper layer damage is very difficult to identify after the fire has transitioned into ventilation-controlled conditions. Shanley et al. However, not all fire investigators have the same level of education and training, or appreciation for the interaction of the fire in its environment. The only procedural aspect that NFPA 921 provides for fire pattern use for origin determination is the heat and flame vector analysis (NFPA 2014). Google Scholar, Babrauskas V (1981) Will the second item ignite? Schroeders results varied widely as to depths of char in relation to the duration and intensity of exposed heat flux, which led him to conclude that wood was not a good indicator for predicting intensity of duration of exposures. 2008). After another period of time the skill once again ascends to a higher position on the y-axis. His findings indicate that gypsum wallboard was the only material that could be reliably used for predicting intensity and duration purposes. bAH$?6 If they can find out which way the fire was moving, and they combine that with the layout of the land and the wind directions for . Decision support frameworks are derived from the field of decision analysis, as well as from uncertainty analysis and risk analysis. Fire effects are the physical or chemical changes that occur to different materials when exposed to the byproducts of combustion (e.g. Fire and Arson Investigator Journal of the International Association of Arson Investigators 15:1619, Crofton, MD, Theobald C (1968) The Critical Distance for Ignition From Some Items of Furniture. This pattern has been associated with a fuel package that has the potential HRR to overcome the thermal inertia and start a pyrolysis reaction in the surface material, thereby creating the pattern, but insufficient energy to produce a plume which reaches any horizontal restriction above the fuel package (Hicks et al. Another myth is that at the base of every v-pattern is an origin. Prior to discussing the patterns themselves and their historical progression, it is first important to recognize that lines of demarcation or areas of demarcation serve as the borders of a fire pattern and should be defined. This is of particular concern with respect to the importance of being able to identify and properly weigh potentially subtle differences from one fire scene to the next, some of which could have significant bearing on the development of the fire and the interpretation of the evidence. Lines of demarcation are the borders defining the differences in certain heat and smoke effects of the fire on various materials. The surface then redirects the buoyant flow and its momentum across the bottom of the ceiling creating a ceiling jet, which begins to descend from the ceiling as an upper layer (Hicks et al. The current damage indicator as espoused by NFPA 921 is that sides that slope downward from above toward the hole are indicators that the fire was from above. Department of Justice, USA, Riahi S, Beyler C (2011) Measurement and Prediction of Smoke Deposition from a Fire Against a Wall. Fire Technology 49:395409, Saito K (1993) Study of Fire Induced Flow Along the Vertical Corner Wall. The most recent example of this failure resulted in the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham by the State of Texas on the basis of an investigation that relied on poor understandings of fire science and investigators that failed to acknowledge or apply the contemporaneous understanding of the limitations of fire indicators (Beyler 2009). National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. (USA), Carman S (2008) Burn Pattern Development in Post-Flashover Fires. Once these parameters are identified and organized, various techniques can be applied to facilitate the collection of critical information, analysis of the data and facilitation of a decision. 2008; Hopkins et al. A visible degree of fire damage scale (DOFD) was developed for gypsum wallboard and was shown to decrease variability in novices ranking varying degrees of fire damage across a wall surface (Gorbett et al. Two methods are used to visibly interpret damage on gypsum wallboard (1) cross-sections of the wall can be evaluated for visibly identifiable changes to the gypsum wallboard through depth and (2) the surface effects can be evaluated for visibly identifiable varying DOFD. The first published fire pattern tests was in 1984 (Custer and Wright 1984). The current definition for fire patterns is the visible or measurable physical changes, or identifiable shapes, formed by a fire effect or group of fire effects (NFPA 2014). The researchers report this deviation in the fire patterns was caused by the burning, melting and dripping of the plastic electronic appliance next to the television (Hoffmann et al. These tests produced the first published data that supported fire patterns as being useful in fire investigation. Wiley, Chichester (UK), Taroni F, Bozzo S, Aitken C, Garbolino P, Biedermann A (2010) Data Analysis in Forensic Science: A Bayesian Decision Perspective. Thermophoretic forces between the gas and surface lining are greatly dependent on the burning regime of the fire. long lines of damage appearing to spread the fire from one location to another). Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Magnitude refers to the degree of damage to the material. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like According to the NFPA, the four classifications of fire cause are accidental, incendiary, undetermined and ______________., In a vehicle fire, what might be suggested by a finding that a relatively new car had its tires removed and replaced with old, worn-out tires?, What is one of the most significant factors in size-up? In their report, authored by its Research Council on Post-Fire Investigation, they recommended, if patterns are to be used for origin and cause determination, forensic methods to identify the specific source of a pattern need to be developed and rigorously vetted (NFPA, 2002, p.5). Their study noted that clean burn areas were observed on wall surfaces under windows that had opened during the fire and that the damage extended from the sill of the window to the floor. 2013). As the combustion zone is not attached to a fuel item or fuel package any longer, it becomes more difficult for the fire investigator to evaluate whether the damage was caused by a flame plume burning attached to a fuel item or if it is the UHCs burning detached from a fuel item due to ventilation-controlled conditions. Department of Justice, USA, Milke J, Hill S (1997) Full-scale room fire experiments conducted at the University of Maryland. Fire occurs due to the exothermic reaction of combustion (burning), producing heat and light. The ignition varied where four tests had a 2ft (0.61m) diameter pan of Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) used to ignite a small electrical appliance adjacent to the television set, two tests were ignited by applying the IPA fueled fire directly to the television set and the last two non-full room involvement tests were ignited with the use of newspaper sheets under the cushion and on the floor in front of the upholstered chair. The resulting damage appears to be angled lines of demarcation with the lower end of the line of demarcation being nearest the source of the smoke flow (Fig. A clean burn area of damage was located at the area of origin only with the fire with the shortest duration of full room involvement burning. 2007; Jarman et al. Match. When a fire develops in an enclosure, the products of combustion (e.g. Fire Clues: Glass - Glass fragments, windows, and light bulbs can provide clues to a fire. They also stated that based on the clean zone area, the flame height and the fire size can be calculated (Riahi 2012). Journal of Testing and Evaluation 40. doi:10.1520/JTE104261, Madrzykowski D, Kerber S (2009) Fire Fighting Tactics under Wind Driven Conditions: Laboratory Experiments. 2012; Mealy et al. Thermocouple data and total heat flux gauges were used as instrumentation for all three burns. Such patterns can provide clues as to the origin, cause or propagation path of the fire. 4 and 5). Proximity requires that the varying fire effects be within the same vicinity to each other. NFPA 921s original publication followed this trend and warned, irregular, curved, or pool shaped patterns on floors and floor coverings cannot always be reliably identified as resulting from ignitable liquids on the basis of observation alone (NFPA 1992). A hypothesis of pseudo chimney effect is provided. 2003). FIRE PATTERNS. Holes in floors have had many misconceptions tied directly to floor patterns, as discussed previously. Also, the lines of demarcation are not parallel to the floor, but are at an angle representing the buoyant flow, usually with characteristic geometric shapes. The literature on using fire patterns to determine an area of origin should be classified into four areas that will assist in guiding future research, including: Assessing the varying Degrees of Fire Damage (DOFD) along the surfaces of the compartment and contents (i.e. In the first edition of NFPA (1992) the investigator was cautioned, that no specific time of burning can be determined based solely upon depth of char. smoke, aerosols). 1983; Kennedy and Kennedy 1985; Cooke and Ide 1985). 2013). 2, SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 4th edn. Identifying processes of using fire patterns in determining an area of origin. Obviously this misconception was widespread as Kirk identified that it was not uncommon for the investigator to assign the cause to the use of a flammable liquid (Kirk 1969). Historically, fire investigators have been individuals without any formal education or training in scientific methodology. The earliest texts (Rethoret 1945; Kennedy 1959), however, do not offer a process on how to use the data, other than vague descriptions on visibly identifying greater areas of damage and tracing varying char damage. Chapter 4 fire patterns. Fire Safety Journal 38:709745, Lentini J (2012) Scientific Protocols for Fire Investigation. The ventilation of the compartment for suppression is a common activity by fire department personnel, typically performed by opening doors and windows. Interscience Communications, London (UK), Hopkins R, Gorbett G, Kennedy P (2008) Fire Pattern Persistence Through Post-Flashover Compartment Fires. The damage that would result would be dependent on the location of the origin of the plume and distance to the intersecting obstructions. In fuel-controlled conditions, cues 1 and 2 were the most positively identified in 80% of the studies (20/25), cue 3 was identified in 60% of the studies (15/25), and cue 4 was only identified in 48% of the studies (12/25). Correspondence to aromatic and unsaturated hydrocarbons). Fire investigators describe this consistent damage to tops of contents as radiant heat damage being caused by the upper layer. 1997). Upper Layer-Generated Fire Pattern (fire origin was located along adjacent wall-fire test conducted at EKU by author). National Fire Protection Association, Quincy (USA), NFPA (2008) NFPA 921-Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigation. pour patterns). 1. One common type of fire pattern is plume-generated patterns, the lines that come from the three-dimensional shape of the fire plume being cut by an interweaving two-dimensional surface, such as a ceiling or wall. curtains). doi:10.1128/AEM.02526-07, Jowsey A (2007) Fire Imposed Heat Fluxes for Structural Analysis. None of these texts, however, provided a methodology to the reader on how to go about identifying what constitutes greater and lesser visible or measurable char damage. Ngu (2004) performed similar experimental work as Schroeder (1999). Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. The job of a forensic scientist is to provide scientific evidence, notably the analysis of scientific or engineering data, to the justice system in order to reduce uncertainty (Taroni et al. This was observed in rooms, which had flashover conditions where clean burn areas were produced under windows away from the origin. Saddle burns display deep charring. Cox provided a process for better interpreting the compartment fire dynamics that is still under development and has not undergone a major field test for user application. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Operations Research. A compartment (3.7m3.7m2.4m) with a single doorway ventilation opening located in the center of a wall was used for this series of tests. Often, a saddle burn is caused by a burning liquid on the floor or radiant heat from a material close to the floor. The studies demonstrated that the following causes could result in damage similar to irregular floor patterns, including: fires from interstitial space below the floor decking, melting plastics, draperies, furniture items, ventilation path and radiant heat from fully developed fires. Fire investigation texts describe the characteristics of the lines of demarcation associated with a plume-generated pattern as a progression through triangular, columnar and conical patterns. The combustion within this compartment is of a high efficiency and the yields of soot and carbon monoxide (CO) are low (Pitts 1994). A columnar pattern has been described as a visible pattern where the leading front, or sharp leading edge of demarcation from a triangular pattern, has continued to spread with the rising heat and other products of combustion and has reached an intersecting horizontal surface (Hicks et al. There are a total of 17 fire effects listed in NFPA (2014) that serve as the base list of observations for fire investigators (Table1). Most of the earlier literature supported the idea that specific patterns were indicative of causal links or to the speed of the fire, which was mostly linked to incendiary fires (e.g. The elements of the fire pattern definition are further explained here: distinct area of damage or cluster of fire effects the area of damage must be clearly distinguishable from other areas of damage through the identification of line(s) of demarcation. What are the 4 elements of extinguishment? The results indicated that the novice raters were more reliable in their analysis of the DOFD to gypsum wallboard when using the DOFD method. There are numerous factors that may influence how a material is affected by heat and exposure to incomplete combustion products (e.g. gtuSLH{2lF>u;yQ2J)@p"cZLL#u9z}.AnwFA?kRr}8F&tr d{Dy{{ \|u)(pV W Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Technology Report 828, Heskestad G (2008) Fire Plumes, Flame Height and Air Entrainment. [1] It is called U shape development because of the shape of the letter U in correlation to a graph, skills developed in the U shaped fashion begin on a high position on a graph's Y-axis. Clean burn damage located on the wall opposite of the door opening (not at the area of origin) extended from the floor to the ceiling and had an approximate 6-foot base. walls) in the form of a funnel or cone with the vertex at the bottom. In essence this shows that fire investigators were trained to identify the greatest area of damage and that this would be the area of origin. 2013). These deviations from normal patterns, as he called them, included areas of open ventilation, secondary ignition of falling material, roof or attic fires, exterior exposure fires and roof collapse. This survey also related that the average fire investigator has only received 60h of training, indicating a one-to-two week course. In 2009, Wolfe, Mealy and Gottuk conducted 15 full-scale tests with varying ventilation conditions and fuels. Self-published, California (USA), Stratakis G, Stamatelos A (2003) Thermogravimetric analysis of soot emitted by a modern diesel engine run on catalyst-doped fuel. The final two tests were performed after multiple television sets and electronic appliances were placed on wood stands and on the floor in a burn room containing an upholstered chair and area rugboth of these tests were allowed to progress into full-room involvement and were not extinguished until 4min past flashover (Hoffmann et al. Fire Technology 39:207224, Hopkins R, Gorbett G, Kennedy P (2007) Fire Pattern Persistence Through Post-Flashover Compartment Fires. The reported velocity of flows from wind-assisted or mechanically induced flows through the bottom of a door and window can be on the order of 10m/s (22 mph) (Kerber and Walton 2005; Madrzykowski and Kerber 2009). Example of a Heat and Flame Vector Analysis Diagram (fire origin located in center of couch-fire test conducted at EKU by author). endstream endobj startxref As mentioned before, if the magnitude of damage is changing, but the lines of demarcation are related, then a pattern may still exist. PubMedGoogle Scholar. Accessed January 1, 2015, Morgan M, Henrion M (1990) Uncertainty: A Guide to Dealing with Uncertainty in Quantitative Risk and Policy Analysis. Clean burn damage also occurred along the wall near the doorway opening in the fire with the longest full room involvement burning duration. The literature identified that investigators use the damage in two different ways. Fire Technology 17(2):98119, McGraw R, Mowrer F (1999) Flammability of Painted Gypsum Wallboard Subjected to Fire Heat Fluxes. Specifically, the hypothesis that carpet pad seams could mimic the floor fire patterns previously attributed to ignitable liquid pours was examined. 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