{"id":247,"date":"2017-11-28T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2017-11-28T05:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T05:17:36","slug":"arc-mapping-a-review-of-findings-and-a-reply-to-the-atf-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/arc-mapping-a-review-of-findings-and-a-reply-to-the-atf-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc Mapping: A Review of Findings and a Reply to the ATF Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been a lot of debate in fire investigation industry recently regarding Arc Mapping. \u00a0NAFI’s mission is to increase the knowledge and improve the skills of persons engaged in the investigation and analysis of fires, explosions and arsons, or the litigation that ensues from such investigations.\u00a0The opinions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect the opinion and beliefs of NAFI. Over the next three weeks, we will be sharing different views on Arc Mapping with our members and the industry – it is up to you to draw your own conclusions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Week 1 – Arc Mapping: New Science or New Myth?<\/a>
\nWeek 2 – Arc Mapping as a Tool for Fire Investigations<\/a>
\nWeek 3 – Arc Mapping: A Review of Findings<\/p>\n

Abstract
\nThe ATF Laboratory recently issued Special Bulletin No. 2 which offered a series of objections to the arc mapping\u00a0review presented by this author earlier this year. This paper reviews the original research findings and explains the\u00a0context of these findings. It then addresses in detail the comments made by ATF, and further addresses the concerns\u00a0about arc mapping as currently used in the field. It reaffirms that the original findings are correct. It also shows that\u00a0a new \u201cellipse\u201d method proposed by the ATF for origin determination from arcing locations is not technically sound.<\/p>\n

Download the complete paper here<\/a><\/p>\n

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There has been a lot of debate in fire investigation industry recently regarding Arc Mapping. \u00a0NAFI’s mission is to increase the knowledge and improve the skills of persons engaged in the investigation and analysis of fires, explosions and arsons, or the litigation that ensues from such investigations.\u00a0The opinions expressed in this paper do not necessarily … Continue reading Arc Mapping: A Review of Findings and a Reply to the ATF Laboratory<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-association-news","category-fire-investigation-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}