Community training available through PA State Police Fire Marshal Unit
Course Title: Fire and Arson awareness for the Community Date: TBD/scheduled as needed Contact Tpr. Herb
Length of Course: 1 hour Location: Local venue of your choice/fire station/school/club
Instructor: Trooper Herb, PSP
Course Goal: To reduce fires and related injuries within the community. Completed by educating and sharing
information from the PSP FM unit in an open and transparent method. Providing details of fire events and
ideally preventing fires and injures that can be stopped through training and education.
Course Description: This presentation will address the most common causes for fires in household situations
based on Local PSP FM experience and will address resulting injuries. It is designed to give awareness and
transparency to the community in an effort to help prevent unintended fires based on the experience and
response of my office conducting investigations within the community.
*Pennsylvania State Police Troop L is initiating an exciting new presentation available to the community,
municipalities, and counties in which they serve. This first of its kind program is designed to engage
community relations in providing transparency with some of the work that gets completed by the State Police
and the counties they cover in Troop L. Troop L Fire Marshal Unit will be making themselves available and
hosting an open, public presentation designed at keeping the community safe by providing information
regarding fire investigations, and arson. The presentation is designed to inform local communities about the
most common and frequent causes of fires that get investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police, and ways to
prevent them. It is based on the experience of investigations that have occurred in the local communities in
which the presentations will occur. This is not a statistical presentation, and it is designed as a real world
scenario experience with the results of actual investigations being shared in the most open and transparent
way possible while also providing valuable Information in an effort to try and curb unintended fires, injuries
and fire related deaths.
This is a unique opportunity to learn insight and ask questions of experienced fire investigators regarding the
work that they do and understanding some of the most common causes of fires that occur in our area in
hopes that the community can leave with valuable information that could maybe prevent a fire and ideally
limit injuries and deaths, caused by fires in our area.