You are the Fire Chief ofWade Gardens, FL. Your department does not have a large enough budget to support a state certified fire investigator. For suspicious fires you need to contact the State Fire Investigator. However, one member of your department, who has been with the fire department for 25 years, has taken some arson investigator courses at the state fire academy. She serves as the lead investigator for your department and is summoned to suspicious fires to determine if the State Fire Investigator needs to be notified.

Describe how you would expect your firefighting crews to handle fire scenes where the line firefighters suspected that the fire was suspicious in nature, and possibly arson. Given that you would need to summon a State Fire Investigator, and it would likely be a number of hours until this individual arrived, briefly state your expectations of the personnel you would have on scene in terms of preserving evidence, securing the scene, and documenting the situation until the State Fire Investigator arrived on scene.