An employee-owned multidisciplinary forensic firm founded in 1987 and now employing more than ninety full-time experts across nineteen US offices, of which fire and explosion is a standing practice area. Its fire experts are individually credentialled — John Tinghitella (C.F.I., C.F.E.I.) and Timothy M. Wilhelm (C.F.E.I., C.V.F.I.) on origin and cause, with licensed engineers such as Daryl L. Ebersole (P.E., C.F.E.I.) on electrical fires — and the firm runs its own mechanical testing laboratory for the inspection and storage of fire evidence.