Fire marshal investigator and K-9 handler is Great Falls Forum Dec. 8 speaker

LEWISTON – Mark Roberts, senior investigator and dog handler with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, will be the featured speaker at the Dec. 8 Great Falls Forum Speaker Series.
His talk, “Accelerant Detection K-9s in Fire Investigation,” is free and open to the public. It will be from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday Dec. 8, in Callahan Hall, Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St., and streamed live via Zoom and the Lewiston Public Library Facebook page.
Roberts will talk about the demographics of fire marshal’s K-9 team and how trained dogs are used in fire investigation and prevention, their biological capabilities, why they’re such an effective fire investigation tool, and more.
The Zoom link will be posted to the Library website and Facebook before the event. The onsite program is a bring-your-own, brown-bag lunch event. For more information, contact the Lewiston Public Library at 207-513-3135 or LPLReference@lewistonmaine.gov.