Dave Berry, CFI, CFEI District Manager 3010 Lakeland Cove, Suite E, Flowood, MS 39232
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Years’ Experience: 42 Professional Summary: Mr. Berry has over forty years of combined experience in fire service, law enforcement and insurance industry investigations. Specifically Mr. Berry has thirty-seven years of fire origin and cause experience with local law enforcement agencies and insurance companies. Project experience includes managing and investigation over 7000 fire investigations.
Origin and Cause of fires
Licenses and Certifications: Private Investigator, AR, #A0446 Private Investigators, LA, #3443-101797-LA Department of Commerce and Insurance, TN, #00005684 IAAI -Certified Fire Investigator, MS, #40-004 NAFI-Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator, USA, #6183-2020
Project Experience: Kansas City Power and Light Kansas City, Missouri Plant Explosion – 1999 – Site Examination Six months Origin and Cause – 450 Million Dollar Loss
Court Qualifications/ Depositions: Origin and Cause, State of Louisiana V. Mrs. Robert L. King / Robert L. King, Jr. Vadalia, LA 1992 Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Lichte V. Maison Rouge Apartments, Biloxi, MS 1993 Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Reeves / MS Farm Bureau Casualty Ins. V. Service Master of Brookhaven, Brookhaven, MS 1994 Origin and Cause, Federal Court, First Oak Brook Corp. V. Union Furniture and Jewelry, Meridian, MS 1995 Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Sidney Walker, et al V. Mississippi Valley Gas, Inc. Jackson, MS 1995 Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Moody V. Mr. Coffee, Hattiesburg, MS 1995 Fire Protection, Federal Court, Tokio Marine & Fire V. Pontotoc Warehouse, Oxford, MS 1996
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Court Qualifications/ Depositions (Continued) Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Wayne Crabb / Farm Bureau V. Rebel Gas LP Gas, Corinth, MS 1997. Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Dillard Melton V. Tallahatchie Farmers Supply, Charleston, MS 1997 Origin and Cause, Civil Court, USF&G / Pelucia Water Assoc. V. Ford Motor Company, Greenwood, MS 1998 Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Huey V. Snyergy Gas, Jackson, MS 2001 Origin and Cause, Civil Court, Lafayette Insurance Co. V. Horace Cox, Minden, LA, 2006 Origin and Cause / Fire Protection, Civil Court, Farm Bureau V. Circle E Candles, Purvis, MS 2009 Origin and Cause, Federal Court, CTW V. APC, Greenville, MS 2010 Origin and Cause, Audubon Insurance Co. V. James and Carol Lowery, Jackson, MS 1992 Origin and Cause, Wayne Crabb V. Rebel LP gas, Inc. Jackson, MS 1993 Origin and Cause, Lomax Insulation V. Tyler Marine Services / Aqua yacht Harbor, Corp. Jackson, MS 1995 Origin and Cause, Sidney Walker, et al V. Mississippi Valley Gas, Jackson, MS 1995 Fire Protection, Tokio Marine & Fire V. Pontotoc Warehouse, Oxford, MS 1996 Origin and Cause, Wayne Crabb / Farm Bureau V. Rebel Gas LP, Jackson, MS 1997 Origin and Cause, Donnerson V. State Farm, Jackson, MS 1998 Origin and Cause, Herbert V. Mississippi Valley Gas et al., Jackson, MS 2000 Origin and Cause, Huey V. Synergy Gas, Jackson, MS 2000 Origin and Cause, Hodge V. Mississippi Valley Gas, et al. Jackson, MS 2002 Origin and Cause, Estate of Teddy Pigg V Mississippi Valley Gas, et al, Jackson, MS 2002 Origin and Cause, Mims V Farmers Insurance Co., Ridgeland, MS 2003 Origin and Cause, Park Management, Inc. V. McAdory Electric, Hattiesburg, MS 2005 Origin and Cause, Hosey V Bass, Florence, MS 2005 Origin and Cause, Jefferson V State Farm, et al., Jackson, MS 2006 Origin and Cause, State Farm V John Deakle, et al., Covington, LA 2007 Origin and Cause, Goolsby / Allstate v. Neal Gas, et al., Jackson, MS 2008 Origin and Cause, Smoke by product; Breazeale / Farm Bureau V. Circle E Candles, Inc 2009 Origin and Cause, CTW V. APC, Jackson, MS / Greenville, MS 2010 Origin and Cause, American Western Ins. V Deer Valley Home Builders, Inc., Desa Heating, LLC and Style Crest, Inc. New Orleans, LA 2011 Origin and Cause, Assurance Company, et al. v. TEO Contracting, Inc. New Orleans, LA 2011 Origin and Cause, Firefighting Procedures, American Western Ins. V Deer Valley Home Builders, Inc., Desa Heating, LLC and Style Crest, Inc., New Orleans, LA 2012 Origin and Cause, Kornegay V Blitz U.S.A. Inc.,Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Discovery Plastics, LLC, Pearl, MS 2012
Professional Experience: EFI Global, Inc. Jackson, MS, District Manager, 2004 - Present Crawford Investigation Services, Jackson, MS, Senior Fire Investigator / Operations Manager, 1997 - 2004 Jackson Fire Department, Jackson, MS 1973-1997 Arson and Internal Affairs Division Chief – Assistant Fire Chief, Jackson Fire Department
Our partner firms include: Engineering services in North Carolina and New York/New Jersey provided by EFI Global of North Carolina, P.C. and EFI Global Engineering of New York, P.C. respectively.
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Specialized Education: Mississippi Fire Investigators Association – Annual Training Conferences 1978-2015 Tennessee Arson Conference 2007, 2009 IAAI – Vehicle Investigation – Death & Injury, 2006 NFPA 921 – 2003 IAAI Annual Conferences 1982, 1990, 1994, 1996 Florida Fire and Arson Training Conference, 1985 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Arson for Profit, 1984 Nevada Arson Seminar, Advanced Arson Conference 1984 National Fire Academy – Fire / Arson Detection, Emmitsburg, Maryland 1982 Mississippi Fire Academy – Counseling Juvenile Fire Setters 1980 Mississippi Fire Academy – Law enforcement photography 1979 University of Southern Mississippi – Anti-Arson workshop 1978 Mississippi Fire Academy – Fire and Arson Detection 1978 Mississippi Fire Academy – SBCC Building Codes 1978
Education: Continuing Education, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, 1983 Fire/Arson Detection, National Fire Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland 1982 AAS, Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS, 1970 Military Police Academy, Fort Gordon, GA 1971
Affiliations: International Association of Arson Investigators National Association of Fire Investigators National Fire Protection Association International Fire Marshals Association Mississippi Fire Investigators Association Louisiana Fire Investigators Association
Courses Instructed/Guest Lecturer: Basic Origin and Cause Evidence Collection and Preservation Photography for the Fire Investigator Firefighter Awareness at the Fire Scene Profiling the Serial Arsonist Red Flags of the Fraud Fire
Our partner firms include: Engineering services in North Carolina and New York/New Jersey provided by EFI Global of North Carolina, P.C. and EFI Global Engineering of New York, P.C. respectively.