George Codding
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George A. Codding volunteers as a firefighter and fire investigator for a fire department in Colorado, U.S.A., and works as a prosecuting attorney for the state government. He has served as chair of a multi-agency investigation team. He is a member of the International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI), where he has served as a committee chair, text reviewer, chapter president, and director. He is currently First Vice-President of the IAAI, and will become President in April, 2016. He has a Juris Doctor law degree, and holds the IAAI’s Certified Fire Investigator (CFI) certification. He has published several articles on legal and investigation topics, and has presented on legal, methodology, and investigation subjects in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Evidence markers in a fire scene.
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The case for training all responders in preservation of evidence

It is a rare firefighter who, in the excitement of a fire event, thinks of a fire scene as a place filled with valuable forensic evidence. Although we may think of the fire itself as the reason evidence is destroyed…