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Putting the wet stuff on the red stuff
The essence of fire service suppression operations is predicated upon the deployment and application of water as an extinguishing agent, in sufficient quantities, location and duration to extinguish a...
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Predictability of Occupancy Performance during Suppression Operations
Our buildings have changed; the structural systems of support, the degree of compartmentation, the characteristics of materials and the magnitude of fire loading. The structural anatomy, predictability...
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Reflecting on These Days of June
Over the next few days, much will be written up reflecting on a number of past historical events that resonate with the rich heritage, honor and tradition that makes this Fire Service what it is....
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Occupancy Risks versus Occupancy Types
The Predictability of Performance; It's Occupany Risk not Occupancy Type Today’s incident demands on the fireground are unlike those of the recent past, requiring incident commanders and commanding...
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Building-Occupancy Relationships and Firefighting
Knowledge and proficiencies related to building construction are formulative to all strategic, tactical and task level assignments. Without understanding the building-occupancy relationships and...
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Looking Back at One Meridian Plaza High Rise Fire: 1991
One Meridian Plaza Fire 1991, Provided Photo Source Not Known, All rights reserved On what began as an uneventful Saturday night twenty-one years ago, a fire on the 22nd floor of the 38-story Meridian...
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Ready, Set, Go…
Ready, Set, Go… Before Making Entry, while in the street; Has someone completed or assigned reconned a 360 of the building? Have you looked at the Building and its Profile? Made a Rapid Risk...
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