FireNet
Federal
Government
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
- FEMA: Federal Emergency Management
Agency
- U.S. Fire Administration -- Information about fire/arson,
firefighting, fire prevention & other training programs offered by the
NFA at the National Fire Academy campus (www.nfa.gov) & remotely throughout
the nation. Hotlinks to major sites of interest including the Learning Resource
Center, the largest fire/arson library in the world (www.lrc.gov). The library's
holdings can be searched on-line. The Federal Emergency Management Agency
(www.fema.gov) is the parent organization of the USFA & NFA.
Fire Safety and Protection
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA.
-- Information about fire protection codes,
training, consultation services and hotlinks to many of the most important
fire and arson investigation organization's web sites.
IAAI State Chapters
Insurance
Industry & Insurance Fraud Information
- Acord
™
-- major developer of insurance industry standards & forms. Also includes
information on statutory, regulatory, and industry coverage changes.
- American Association of Insurance Services -- One of
two national advisory organizations that develops and files state regulator
forms, manuals & rating information for the P/C industry.
- American
Insurance Association -- A P/C trade association.
- American Insurance Services Group
-- AISG is supported by the insurance industry (PCS is part of the AISG)
and specializes in data and technical resources for a broad range of functions
in claims, underwriting, loss control, premium audit and risk management.
There is special emphasis on this web site of their Database Information
Services Group -- a group which provides claims and underwriting information.
The site features information on AISG's claims databases, the Index System
and PILR, and on its other divisions.
- American
Re-Insurance -- Information of the company, insurance, re-insurance,
Arson "Tip of the Quarter", hot links to the insurance industry,
insurance information databases & more.
- Claims
Magazine -- claims-related topics, articles, and reference books.
- Coalition Against Insurance Fraud -- organization
of consumer groups, government agencies, and insurers dedicated to combating
fraud through public advocacy and education. Site contains a database of
each state's anti-fraud regulatory requirements, SIU requirements, and current
and pending legislation.
- International
Association of Special Investigation Units -- information on SIUs,
a message board, job postings, and membership.
Juvenile Firesetting Resources
K-9
Accelerant Detection
Law Enforcement
Motor
Vehicles
Product
Safety
Professional
Associations
Publications
Public Records
- AutoTrack
™
- BRB Publications -- provides
listing of free and fee municipal, county, state & federal public record
search websites. This site provides links to free public record websites,
hot links to public record research vendors & fee services, SSN searches,
reverse directories and more. Another BRB Publications related website contains
reverse directories, links to state and local public database
sites, maps and other useful information & links.
- CDB Infotek
™
, a ChoicePoint
TM
subsidiary, is a comprehensive public record database vendor in the United
States. The system claims access to more than 4 billion public records at
reasonable cost. CDB Infotek
TM
provides "Credit Header" information that provides a full name,
alias names, full or partial DOB, SSN, current & former addresses, real
property assets and some information on bankruptcies, liens, corporate affiliations,
etc.
- CourtLink Home Page
- County Information Address Locator
- Database Technologies -
DBT's public record database is called AutoTrack
TM
. This is another large and respected public record database vendor in the
United States. The system advertises access to more than 4 billion public
records at reasonable cost. AutoTrack
TM
provides "Credit Header" information that provides a full name,
alias names, full or partial DOB, SSN, current & former addresses, real
property assets and some information on bankruptcies, liens, corporate affiliations,
etc.
- KnowX
™ Searches
- National Data Research (background)
- Social Security
Death Index
- U.S. Vital Records Information
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Research
- National
Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) -- A link to
the Building & Fire Research Laboratory that conducts scientific experiments
and testing of products and processes to determine fire hazard and combustion
properties. Includes access to fire and non-fire related testing.
- NIST Fire Research -- Direct access to fire information:
online publications, downloadable fire models, photographs of burns, and a
database of heat release data for various items.
-
Building & Fire Research Laboratory
-- Fire Research
Information Services (FRIS). FIREDOC is a fire research bibliographic database
containing 50,000 documents on nearly any fire research related subject. The
user searches the database using "key words", the author's name
or word(s) in a title. The service is free and can be searched from the web,
the Internet or via a modem.
- Underwriters Laboratory (UL)
An independent, not-for-profit product testing & certification organization
for over a century with U.S. & international affiliates.
-
NAFI921
-- a website dedicated to the discussion and understanding of NFPA 921
Resource
Collections
- Learning Resource Center, U.S. Fire Administration
-- A major collection of information on fire/arson investigation and
related topics with over 60,000 volumes and more than 200 periodicals, magazines
and journals with a fire focus. This site allows the user to search the library's
holdings most of which can be obtained through the inter-library loan program
through your local library.
