NEW IN FIRE INVESTIGATION EDUCATING
The article provides some information about the creation of virtual simulator "Inspection of the fire scene" in the Ural State Fire Service Institute of Emercom of Russia. The simulator presented in the form of a fire scene of virtual reality makes it possible to overcome some objective limitations which do exist in the system of training and raising the level of specialists'' skills in the field of fire investigation and expertise. The main advantage of the virtual simulator is the ability of creation of an indefinitely large database of real fires without the involvement of outside experts. The advantages of using avirtual simulator "Inspection of the fire" intheprocess oftraining specialists in the field of fire investigation is the high efficiency of formation of cadets and students of professional competence in the field of production and inspection of fire fixation of the results, the possibility of modeling different locations of fires, including the combustion zone, smoke and the surrounding area, creating different places depending on the fires generated trace picture of the visual signs of thermal effects on the building envelope, to the extent that the competence of cadets, students and trainees. Virtual simulator allows you to combine individual and group forms of education, as well as used in the organization of self-study. The concept of this training simulator eliminates the possibility of the teacher to intervene in the formation of trace pattern fire places.