Investigators academy
How does fire develop?
How does fire develop?
What do you need to know to answer this question?
Think about your past experience.
What have been your experiences seeing a fire grow?
What causes fire to spread from its origin to other places?
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We’ve seen the stages of fire development.
Conduction, convection, and radiation
contribute to fire growth.
Keep exploring to learn more
about how fire develops and behaves.
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Notice a fire has ignited.
Fire ignites when enough heat, oxygen, and fuel combine.
Notice the fire has grown.
Heat can flow to other parts of the sofa by conduction, convection, and radiation.
Click the + to take a closer look at how heat affects fire growth.
Notice the entire sofa is on fire.
At this stage of fire development, all materials that can burn have ignited.
Click the + to take a closer look at how the entire sofa ignited.
Notice the char, smoke, and debris left after the fire decays.
What can these clues tell us about the origin of the fire?
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