ASSIGNMENT | Understanding the importance of how fire investigation leads to identifying the cause and origin of a fire

Research Report
Diamantes, D. (2016). Principles of fire prevention (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. (Chapter 9: Fire Prevention Through Investigation / Chapter 10: Fire Prevention Through Public Education, Awareness, and the Public Forum)

Instructions
Understanding the importance of how fire investigation leads to identifying the cause and origin of a fire is vital in aiding the fire prevention bureau in the design and implementation of any fire prevention program.

Review the data compiled by the NFPA related to structural fire causes:
Campbell, R. (2017). Intentional fires. Retrieved from https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-reports/US-Fire-Problem/Fire-causes/osintentional.ashx

Read Section One, “Intentional Structural Fires,” and choose any two structural fire causes that you think are relevant to and/or currently problematic in your community or jurisdiction. For each cause, include the information listed below.

 Explain whether the cause would indicate a primarily individual or community risk.
 Identify who you would target with a relevant fire safety education program and how a cause-and-origin investigation is used to determine this.
 Recall how you would use the five-step model to compose the fire safety education program.
 Write one measurable, actionable fire prevention objective for this program.
 Briefly describe the fire prevention message you would try to deliver to this audience.
 Identify the groups in the community that could be helpful or involved in message delivery.
 Briefly explain how you could evaluate this program\’s effectiveness.

Your written assignment should be at least two pages in length. Be sure to utilize APA formatting for all sources cited. You should use at least two sources for this assignment.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

BOS 3303 Research Report
Introduction
Intentional fires can be defined as those fires that emanates from deliberate misuse of sources of heat or any fire of incendiary nature. Cases of structural intentional fires have been on the rise in the last decade owing to a number of reasons. Intentional fires fact sheet of 2014 shows that structural fire cases supersedes other instances such as vehicles or outside or unclassified fires (Quintiere, 2016). Even though there are many sources of intentional structural fires, the two notable ones are insurance fraud as well as general malice. According to Abt et al, (2015), humans account for more than 55% of wildfires that occur on lands…