Michael Forbes

Fire Investigator · Fire and Rescue NSW · company speakers →

On 3 November 2018 a large fire occurred in a factory at Seven Hills in western Sydney. The fire destroyed two buildings with a dollar loss of over $30 million. The NSW Fire and Rescue's Fire Investigation and Research Unit (FIRU) needed to understand how and why such a fire could cause so much damage when the evidence revealed that there was no human intervention and no apparent reason how or why the fire started. With help from CCV footage and other images, Michael explained how investigators from Fire and Rescue NSW worked with the owner and private fire investigators, who were representing the insurance companies, to understand the cause of the fire. He described how the use of identical products, live fire tests and several hypotheses led to a (some might say) surprising conclusion.

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