Can I take the fire restoration certification course online?

Yes. The IRI Fire Restoration Certification course is 100% online and fully self-paced. Learn more here .

How long does it take to complete the fire restoration course?

Most students complete the course in 30–40 hours. There is no time limit, so you can train at your own pace.

Is this certification accepted in all states?

Many states accept certification for fire restoration work. Some states may require a license depending on demolition or reconstruction scope. Check your state here .

Does the course include fire-specific documents and forms?

Yes. Enrollment includes digital fire restoration documents and customer-ready PDFs for safety reports, content disposal, packout inventory, scope notes, and jobsite communication.

Do I get a certificate after I finish the course?

Yes. You’ll receive an official Fire Restoration Specialist Certificate issued by IRI that you can print or share with clients.

Does the course include AI tutor support?

Yes. The course includes built-in AI tutor access 24/7 to help you review smoke damage procedures, cleanup steps, safety topics, and more.

Can I complete the course on my phone or tablet?

Absolutely. The course is mobile-friendly and can be completed from any device — phone, tablet, or desktop.

Do I need experience to take this course?

Yes. You need at least one year of experience in restoration, construction, cleaning, or a related field to enroll.

What if I fail a quiz or test?

No worries — you can retake quizzes as needed. Plus, the AI assistant is available to help you study before trying again.

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Master fire restoration skills with self-paced, AI-supported certification training — built for contractors, adjusters, and field professionals.

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Fire Restoration Specialist By IRI

Fire Restoration Specialist Training

The IRI Fire Restoration Specialist Certification teaches contractors how to assess fire and smoke damage, stabilize affected areas, understand soot and odor behavior, document contents, and communicate restoration scope clearly with customers, adjusters, and property managers.

Assess

Recognize fire and smoke conditions, residue types, affected materials, safety issues, source concerns, and first decisions.

Stabilize

Understand emergency response, board-up awareness, source control, ventilation decisions, PPE, debris hazards, and site protection.

Clean

Learn soot cleaning, HEPA vacuuming, content handling, odor control, corrosion concerns, sealing, and structural cleaning workflow.

Document & Explain

Use photos, safety reports, packout inventory, content disposal records, scope notes, customer-ready PDFs, and Hope AI support.

Compliance note: This course teaches fire/smoke restoration concepts, contents documentation, and jobsite communication. Fire/smoke scope, demolition, hazardous materials, insurance procedures, licensing, and local rules vary by location and project.

AI-Enhanced Learning at IRI

AI-Driven Fire Restoration Training & Certification

Our upgraded AI-powered fire restoration platform includes:

AI Tutors

Built-in AI tutors guide you step-by-step through fire restoration methods, cleanup stages, and smoke behavior scenarios.

Real Jobsite Help

Need to deal with smoke odor, corrosive soot, or structural damage? AI chat can assist with real-world fire cleanup decisions.

Mobile-Ready

Use AI support on your phone or tablet — perfect for fast answers on pre-cleaning steps, odor control, and site safety.

Contractor Friendly

You don’t need to be tech-savvy — just ask questions, and your IRI AI assistant is ready to help 24/7.

The Learning Platform

Built around AI. Not bolted on.

Every module has Hope AI tutoring built in — modules on the left, slide content in the center, Hope on the right. Ask questions anytime. She explains images. She tutors you on wrong quiz answers. She talks back and forth. No other school has this.

IRI Learning platform — Fire course smoke odor treatment slide with modules sidebar and Hope AI panel

3-Column Layout

Modules · Slides · Hope

6 modules covering fire chemistry, damage basics, salvage, asbestos, content inventory, and emergency construction. Ask Hope about any topic — she is right there in the panel.

IRI Learning — Fire course dry-cleaning sponge technique slide with Hope AI

Real-Life Scenarios

Comprehension Learning

Real jobsite exercises built like actual fire damage jobs — scope the loss, document contents, plan cleanup. Hope grades your answers, tutors you on every miss, and guides you through the decision. Combined with traditional quizzes and true/false — comprehension learning and knowledge testing, together.

IRI Learning — Hope AI tutor responding to fire restoration student question in real-time

AI Tutoring

Hope, Your AI Tutor

Ask questions in 12 languages. Hope responds with real restoration knowledge — trained on 20+ years of job data, not generic AI. Voice input and output supported.

IRI Learning — Hope AI tutoring a student through a quiz question on fire restoration

Quiz Tutoring

Hope Coaches Your Quizzes

Get a quiz question wrong? Hope does not just show the right answer — she explains why it is right, walks you through the reasoning, and tutors you until you understand the concept. Every quiz becomes a one-on-one learning moment, not just a pass/fail test.

Traditional quizzes + true/false + comprehension exercises + AI tutoring on every wrong answer. That is how IRI builds real understanding — not memorization.

✓ Focus mode

✓ Voice input & output

✓ Quiz tutoring on wrong answers

✓ Image explanation by AI

✓ AI-proctored final exam

Included With Enrollment

What's Included With Your Fire Restoration Certification

Your Fire Restoration Specialist enrollment includes the certification course, Hope AI support, packout inventory, content disposal forms, safety reports, digital fire documents, and customer or adjuster-ready PDFs you can print, email, or share.

Hope is trained on 20+ years of real restoration projects, so students can ask about smoke behavior, soot residues, odor control, char depth, content salvage, corrosion concerns, asbestos protocols, and documentation without leaving the IRI learning platform.

Fire Course Training

Fire behavior, smoke residues, soot types, odor, safety, contents, cleaning workflow, and documentation fundamentals.

Hope Jobsite Coach

Ask fire, smoke, contents, odor, safety, and scope questions in plain language from the course or the field.

Digital Fire Documents

Packout inventory, content disposal, safety reports, scope notes, equipment logs, and customer sign-off tools.

Customer & Adjuster PDFs

Create professional documents you can print, email, or share with customers, adjusters, property managers, and crews.

Course + exam Packout inventory Content disposal forms Printable and shareable PDFs

Included Free With Your Course

Pack it out. Document the disposal. File the safety report.

Three tools every fire restoration contractor needs on day one. Don't subcontract your paperwork — do it on your phone, on site, in 12 languages. Competitors charge $399 for report software. Yours is included.

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Safety

🛠️ Safety Report Generator

OSHA-aligned safety reports for fire-damaged sites. Document hazards, PPE requirements, structural concerns, and air quality risks — generated on site from your phone.

Fire-specific OSHA-aligned 12 Languages

✓ Hazard identification on site
✓ PPE requirements documentation
✓ Structural damage assessment
✓ Air quality & soot risk notes
✓ Professional PDF export

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Packout

📦 Packout Inventory Manager

Room-by-room inventory for fire-damaged contents. Track what's packed out, what's salvageable, what's destroyed — with photos, conditions, and locations for insurance claims.

Fire-specific Insurance-ready 12 Languages

✓ Room-by-room content tracking
✓ Photo documentation per item
✓ Salvageable vs. destroyed status
✓ Box & location assignment
✓ Insurance claim PDF export

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Disposal

🗑️ Content Disposal Form

Document contents being disposed due to fire damage. Record item descriptions, condition, reason for disposal, and customer acknowledgment for insurance.

Fire-specific Insurance-ready 12 Languages

✓ Item descriptions & conditions
✓ Disposal reason documentation
✓ Customer acknowledgment capture
✓ Photo attachments per item
✓ Insurance documentation PDF

See all AI field tools → 12 languages · Mobile-ready · AI-powered

Hope Cards & Globes

Your AI companion. On every page. One tap away.

Hope lives in a globe — a tap opens a full conversation. She remembers your history, speaks 12 languages, and reads your photos. Course-specific, job-specific, always on. No other school gives you this.

The Globe

Tap the Globe

Hope sits as a globe on every page of the platform. One tap and she opens — ready to talk, ready to help. No menus. No navigation. Just your AI tutor, right there.

Hope AI conversation — chat interface with voice input, 12 languages, and course-specific restoration knowledge

The Conversation

Real Conversation

Ask by text or voice in 12 languages. Hope responds with real fire restoration knowledge — soot types, odor removal, corrosion control, contents cleaning, structural evaluation. She remembers your history and builds on it.

Hope AI vision — upload a jobsite photo and Hope analyzes damage, materials, and restoration steps

Vision + Voice

She Reads Photos

Upload a photo from the jobsite. Hope analyzes the fire damage, identifies soot and corrosion types, and walks you through the cleanup and restoration steps. Voice output too — she talks back. Trained on over 20 years of successful restoration and abatement projects.

✓ 12 languages

✓ Voice in & out

✓ Photo analysis

✓ Conversation history

✓ Course-specific knowledge

Fire Damage Division Starter System

Add fire and smoke restoration services to your contracting company with a real field workflow.

IRI is more than a certificate. Your Fire Restoration enrollment includes training, Hope AI jobsite support, smoke/soot guidance, packout inventory, content disposal records, safety reports, DryIQ estimating access, and customer-ready PDFs you can print, email, or share with owners, adjusters, and property managers.

Start Building Your Fire Division →

Fire/Smoke Specialist Training

Build the technical base for fire behavior, smoke movement, soot residues, odor control, safety, and documentation.

Contents & Packout Workflow

Track contents, salvage status, disposal decisions, box locations, photos, customer sign-offs, and claim-ready records.

Soot/Odor Scope Support

Use Hope and course workflows to think through residue type, affected materials, odor sources, cleaning steps, and scope notes.

Customer & Adjuster PDFs

Turn job notes, safety records, packout data, and scope summaries into professional documents that are easy to share.

Course Details & Enrollment

Fire Restoration Specialist By IRI

The IRI fire restoration certification includes AI-enhanced tutoring, professional field tools, and digital documents — all included free with enrollment.

What You Get

Course Duration
30–40 hours, self-paced

Time Limit
2-year access — self-paced

Access
24/7 from any device

Mobile
Phone, tablet, desktop

Format
Modules, quizzes, video

Start Date
Immediately after enrollment

Hope AI Tutor
20+ yrs real jobs, not generic AI

Real Job Exercises
DryIQ, AWA, daily job log

Proctored Final Exam
Human + AI proctored via webcam

Certified Profile
Find A Specialist listing

Student Requirement: 1 year of experience in construction, restoration, cleaning, property adjusting, or a related field.

Included Free: Professional Restoration Documents ($100 value)

Digital restoration documents you can print, email, or share with customers, adjusters, property managers, and crews.

Work Authorization Direction to Pay Certificate of Satisfaction Release of Liability Content Disposal Equipment Log Safety Report Property Inventory

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Fire Restoration Specialist Certification

Instant access to course + AI tools + documents

$299.00

Best Value — Save $450

$750.00

$1,200.00 — All 4 Courses

Disaster Recovery Specialist Package
WRS + MS + FRS + DES Certification Courses

Get All 4 Courses →

100% online • Start immediately • 2-year access
AI tools + restoration documents included free

Your Fire/Smoke Workflow, Built Into The Course

Learn It. Pack It. Clean It. Share It.

Training, Hope AI, contents documentation, safety reports, DryIQ estimating, and customer-ready documents work together inside one student platform, so contractors can move from class knowledge to field communication without stitching together extra apps.

01

Learn It

Fire behavior, smoke residues, soot types, odor movement, corrosion concerns, contents safety, and jobsite hazard awareness.

02

Pack It

Contents inventory, salvage decisions, disposal records, packout locations, photo notes, and customer authorization documentation.

03

Clean It

HEPA vacuuming, soot cleaning, deodorization, sealing, structural cleaning, affected material decisions, and safety controls.

04

Share It

Customer and adjuster PDFs, photos, safety reports, scope notes, and professional summaries that help explain the work.

Start Fire Restoration Training →

Built for contractors who need training, contents documentation, soot/odor records, and professional communication to work together.

DryIQ Estimator — Beta

Walk the room.
Get the estimate.

Photo or video the jobsite. AI reads every line — cleaning, packout, structural, R&R — and drops catalog-exact items into your estimate. Built on 20+ years of real restoration projects. No public AI. Your photos never leave the DryIQ Technical Center.

IRI students are first in line for beta access.

Explore the beta →

Limited beta seats · Invite-only

DryIQ pricing is proprietary — calculated from real-time inflation data. Updated monthly on the 15th.

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Vision-First Scoping

Photo or video to scoped estimate. Identifies walls, floors, fixtures, contents — drops catalog-exact lines.

🧠

AI-Check

Hope scans every room against 10,000+ restoration items, flags missing lines — PPE, containment, drying gear, demo, cleanup.

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One-Click Builders

Flood Cut, Containment, Drying Chamber, Lead Cover, Roof Tarp, Board-Up, Drywall Repair, Water Extraction.

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Print-Ready PDF

12 languages. Cover page, room-by-room line items, federal-source citations, floor-plan sketch, photo galleries, signature lines.

💰

Time & Material → Unit Pricing

Convert T&M estimates into unit pricing that banks, insurance carriers, and property managers require. No manual reformatting — DryIQ does the conversion automatically.

Course Package Specials

Add More Courses. Save More Money.

Every package includes 24/7 AI tutor support, digital restoration documents, AI field tools, and certification with Find A Specialist directory listing. 100% online, self-paced, 2-year access.

1 Course

Single Certification

$299

$399 — Save $100

✓ 1 restoration certification course
✓ 24/7 AI tutor (Hope)
✓ AI field tools & documents
✓ 2-year access

Choose Course →

2 Courses

2-Course Package

$499

$599 — Save $100

✓ Any 2 certification courses
✓ WRS+MS, WRS+FRS, WRS+DES, or FRS+DES
✓ 24/7 AI tutor (Hope)
✓ AI field tools & documents
✓ 2-year access

Choose Package →

3 Courses

3-Course Package

$650

$900 — Save $250

✓ Any 3 certification courses
✓ WRS+FRS+MS or WRS+MS+DES
✓ 24/7 AI tutor (Hope)
✓ AI field tools & documents
✓ 2-year access

Choose Package →

Best Value — Save $450

4 Courses

Disaster Recovery Specialist

$750

$1,200 — All 4 Courses

✓ WRS + FRS + MS + DES
✓ All 4 certification courses
✓ Disaster Recovery Specialist cert
✓ 24/7 AI tutor (Hope)
✓ AI field tools & documents
✓ 2-year access

Get All 4 Courses →

✓ 100% online

✓ Start immediately

✓ 2-year access

✓ AI tools included free

✓ No re-take fees

✓ Mobile friendly

Custom packages and multi-student discounts available — contact us for details.

Woman fire restoration contents documentation specialist using a tablet and phone to inventory packout items on a smoke-damaged jobsite

24/7

AI Tutor Access

2-Yr

Course Access

Fire Restoration Training

Finding time for a fire restoration certification can be tough — that’s where our AI-powered system makes all the difference.

Hope is built into every module — ask about smoke behavior, soot types, odor control, packout decisions, content disposal, safety reports, or fire scope documentation and get an instant answer. Study the fire restoration material at your pace, anytime, on any device.

AI-Supported Fire Restoration Class Benefits

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No expensive re-take fees — study from anywhere, anytime. Includes 24/7 access to Hope AI tutor, interactive exercises on fire assessment, soot cleaning, contents, and odor control, scenario-based training, and instant feedback on quizzes.

Take Multiple Restoration Courses at Once

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Track Study Progress with AI Assistance

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Fire Field Tools Included Free

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Start Your Fire Restoration Certification →

Why Wait To Start?

Train On
Your Own Schedule

No deadlines. No paper. No classroom. Complete your Fire Restoration Certification when it fits your life — from the truck, the jobsite, or the couch. Everything is digital, AI-powered, and included free.

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24/7 Access — Any Device

Mobile, tablet, or desktop. Fully responsive — study from the jobsite or the living room.

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Built-In AI Tutor (Hope)

Instant support on smoke, soot, odor, safety, contents, and scope notes — 24/7, 12 languages, voice in and out.

📄

AI-Powered Digital Documents

All digital. Safety reports, content disposal, and packout documents generated from your phone — in 12 languages.

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AI Field Tools Included

Safety report generator, packout inventory, content disposal, DryIQ estimator access, and customer-ready PDFs.

📷

Photo Analysis On The Job

Snap a jobsite photo and Hope can help analyze visible smoke/fire conditions, materials, documentation needs, and first-step planning.

Start Now → 100% online · No deadlines · 2-year access

Fire restoration contractor studying online with a tablet after hours beside a restoration work truck and jobsite equipment

AI-Powered Learning

$0

Re-Take Fees

12

Languages

$100

Tools Value — Free

State License & Certification Requirements

Find Your State Requirements

Select your state to see water restoration, mold remediation, and fire restoration certification and license requirements. Fire/smoke scope, demolition, hazardous materials, insurance procedures, and licensing can vary by location.

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Fire Restoration Specialist Training

Assess

Stabilize

Clean

Document & Explain

AI-Driven Fire Restoration Training & Certification

Our upgraded AI-powered fire restoration platform includes:

AI Tutors

Real Jobsite Help

Mobile-Ready

Contractor Friendly

Built around AI. Not bolted on.

Modules · Slides · Hope

Comprehension Learning

Hope, Your AI Tutor

Hope Coaches Your Quizzes

What's Included With Your Fire Restoration Certification

Fire Course Training

Hope Jobsite Coach

Digital Fire Documents

Customer & Adjuster PDFs

Pack it out. Document the disposal. File the safety report.

🛠️ Safety Report Generator

📦 Packout Inventory Manager

🗑️ Content Disposal Form

Your AI companion. On every page. One tap away.

Tap the Globe

Real Conversation

She Reads Photos

Add fire and smoke restoration services to your contracting company with a real field workflow.

Fire/Smoke Specialist Training

Contents & Packout Workflow

Soot/Odor Scope Support

Customer & Adjuster PDFs

Fire Restoration Specialist By IRI

What You Get

Included Free: Professional Restoration Documents ($100 value)

Fire Restoration Specialist Certification

Learn It. Pack It. Clean It. Share It.

Learn It

Pack It

Clean It

Share It

Walk the room.Get the estimate.

Vision-First Scoping

AI-Check

One-Click Builders

Print-Ready PDF

Time & Material → Unit Pricing

Fire, Mold, Water, Management — We Train For It All

Add More Courses. Save More Money.

Single Certification

2-Course Package

3-Course Package

Disaster Recovery Specialist

Restoration Certification By IRI

Finding time for a fire restoration certification can be tough — that’s where our AI-powered system makes all the difference.

AI-Supported Fire Restoration Class Benefits

Take Multiple Restoration Courses at Once

Track Study Progress with AI Assistance

Fire Field Tools Included Free

Train OnYour Own Schedule

24/7 Access — Any Device

Built-In AI Tutor (Hope)

AI-Powered Digital Documents

AI Field Tools Included

Photo Analysis On The Job

Find Your State Requirements

Water Restoration State License And Certification Requirements Search

Mold Remediation And Certification State License Requirements Search

Fire Restoration State License And Certification Requirements Search

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