While awaiting a reply from the always helpful FireCareers staff, please let me offer that most who enter that field of work have considerable (often required) experience in the Fire Service and/or Law Enforcement.

Even those who appear at first to be independently employed under contract, such as by an insurance company, can trace their work history to include many years, sometimes decades of work in Police and/or Fire Departments.

Still, there are opportunities, and I'd suggest the very first thing you do is contact the publicly employed Investigators from your local Fire and Police Departments to better understand the work, and ideally obtain their support as mentors.

While doing so, you may find these websites to be of interest:

http://www.arson.org

http://www.arsoncontrol.org

http://www.arsoncontrol.org

http://www.atf.gov

I hope this information proves helpful. The websites listed above, and many other helpful resources can be found at:

http://www.lafd.org/links.htm

Brian

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This message was edited by lafdpso on 5-2-05 @ 10:42 AM