208 - Fire Origin & Cause

Fire Origin and Cause is the eighth title in Action Training Systems' ATS Firefighter II series, and SkillsTrain supplies it locally as the authorised South African distributor for Action Training Systems (ATS). It moves the series from suppression technique into fire investigation fundamentals, determining where and how a fire started, knowledge that matters for every firefighter even if they never work as a dedicated investigator. Even a firefighter who never specialises in investigation benefits from recognising the basic signs of how and where a fire started, since that observation can matter later for prevention and for understanding fire behaviour generally.

The title sits within ATS's Firefighter II range, aligned to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1001 firefighter qualification standard, and uses the same teach, test and track model as the rest of the series, testing the learner as they go and replaying any section answered incorrectly. It is supplied on USB or as a classroom streaming option, either individually or as part of the complete ten-title Firefighter II series, directly ahead of Pre-Incident and Fire Safety Surveys.

Who it is for: Firefighter II level personnel needing origin-and-cause fundamentals alongside their suppression skills, as the eighth of ten titles in the series. Training officers often pair it with the fire-prevention and public-education titles that follow, so a recruit sees how origin-and-cause knowledge feeds directly into prevention work.