Special Agents
Arson & Explosives Training
![A collage showing one agent sifting through debris from a fire and another pair of agents preparing an explosives demonstration.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508233651im_/http://www.atf.gov/careers/graphics/training/arson-explosives-training.jpg)
Arson and explosives training gives newly hired special agent trainees a basic foundation of knowledge relating to arson/fire and explosive investigations. Trainees will learn to identify the criminal misuse of explosives and fire.
Trainees receive training in the areas of:
- Fire scene investigations
- Multiple live burn scenarios
- Gathering and preserving fire scene evidence
- Interviewing witnesses
- Developing financial motives
- Identification of commercial explosives
- Improvised explosive devices
- The effects of explosives
- Processing bomb scenes
- Collecting and examining post blast evidence
- Hands-on explosives training and handling