About Fire Reconstruction Consultants, Inc.

Fire Reconstruction Consultants, Inc. has been providing technical investigations world wide for Marine, Property, Casualty Insurers, Manufacturers and the Legal Profession since July of 1981 with special emphasis on marine fires and explosions (Worldwide) and Personal Injury and Death Cases both Defense & Plaintiff. (from coast to coast in the U.S.) Additionally, our success with Personal Injury/Death cases has elevated the recognition of our expertise in this area in both the investigation and in the courtroom.

Walter P. Godfrey, Jr. is the founder and president of the Port Canaveral, Florida based Company. He is also the Senior Fire & Explosion Analyst with over 40 years of investigative experience.

He is a National Board Certified Fire Investigator, National Board Certified Fire Investigation Instructor, Florida Certified Investigator, Board Certified Criminal Defense Investigator, National Board Certified Anti-Terrorism Specialist and a U.S. Coastguard 100 ton master licensed Captain. He has been the lead investigator on more than 1500 vessel fire investigations, and also lead investigator in over 2000 vehicle/structure cases. He shares his knowledge and expertise by teaching seminars on structure fires and surface and sub surface vessel fires for insurance underwriters, (ex. Lloyds of London), claims personnel, attorneys, and investigative arms of various government agencies as well as civic and professional groups. The U.S. Coast Guard inspectors have worked along side him and used the case to set up procedures for their instruction courses. Instructing and sharing knowledge has helped to make Captain Godfrey one of the most successful origin & cause expert witnesses in the courtroom.

Fire Reconstruction Consultants has an Excellent Failure Analysis Team of Experts. Our engineering team has training and expertise in mechanical, structural, electrical, construction failure analysis and fire protection engineering. In the beginning Captain Godfrey, knew he needed good engineers to work with him so he interviewed many engineers before he found his team. The engineers independently deal with the evidence and are qualified to deal with every aspect of the investigation: metallurgical testing, thermal fatigue, fracture mechanics, corrosive cause and prevention, ductile and stress failures, heavy rigging, electrical, burn and flame spread testing, computer fire modeling and even weapons testing.

Many of the engineers have worked at Kennedy Space Center, have worldwide experience, and have established their credibility and earned reputations seeded in trust over the years. Fire Reconstruction Consultants uses accredited Laboratories, with chemical analysis, forensic and industrial, wet chemistry and hydrocarbon testing.

Fire Reconstruction Consultants' other team members consist of our photographers, videographer, ROV Technican & Barbara Floyd as our Project Coordinator.

Mission Statement: Fire Reconstruction Consultants, Inc., is in the business of providing Accurate, non-biased Technical Independent Investigations to determine the Origin & Cause of Fires & Explosions in Structures, Vessels & Vehicles for our clients. Our diverse team of Fire & Explosion Investigators, Analysts, Experts, & Forensic Engineers provide; fast mobilization, accurate, thorough, integrity based results along with complete litigation support to Marine, Property, Casualty Insurers, Manufacturers & the Legal Profession Worldwide. Back to Home or to Top of this About Us page

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