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Re: Fire investigation for forensic engineers, Jan 14 in Phoenix
Posted by: Sir Gary (IP Logged)
Date: October 27, 2017 02:16AM
Being a good Fire Engineer, does not make you a good Fire Investigator;
NFPA 921 would guide a FE to be a more competent FI, and NAFE would be naive to ignore such a thorough, systematic source of sound advice.
That said, NFPA921, inasmuch as it's contents are sound and correct (and, in my opinion, extraordinarily-thoroughly reviewed), is hardly technically challenging;
it is, after all, written to be accessible to all (even lawyers
).
If a heart specialist is presented with a guide on nursing cardiac patients
he would, despite probably being short on some nursing skills and experience himself,
be incline to treat it as a guide (particularly if it's own preamble stresses that it is a guide).
When you blindly follow the text without wondering where it came from, it is a religion, not a science.
NFPA 921 would guide a FE to be a more competent FI, and NAFE would be naive to ignore such a thorough, systematic source of sound advice.
That said, NFPA921, inasmuch as it's contents are sound and correct (and, in my opinion, extraordinarily-thoroughly reviewed), is hardly technically challenging;
it is, after all, written to be accessible to all (even lawyers
).
If a heart specialist is presented with a guide on nursing cardiac patients
he would, despite probably being short on some nursing skills and experience himself,
be incline to treat it as a guide (particularly if it's own preamble stresses that it is a guide).
When you blindly follow the text without wondering where it came from, it is a religion, not a science.
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