As More Cities Adopt Appendix L, It Seems the Fire Service is Listening to its Best and Brightest by Joseph D. Rush III, MS, EFO This article was originally published in 2017 and was updated and edited by the Firefighter Air Coalition for publication in 2021. Last...
Climbing with spare cylinders was next to impossible By Michael M. Dugan Imagine you are responding to a fire in a high-rise building in your jurisdiction. Upon arrival, you have a working fire on the upper floor. The incident commander orders your unit...
Recent years have provided much more information about the increasing health risks to firefighters during the normal course of doing their job. One aspect is the toxicity of the environment in which the firefighters work. The content of the smoke is very hazardous to...
Why have you never heard of them? Because the fire service has a history of being slow to change By Michael M. Dugan FARS, the short version of "firefighter air replenishment systems," are an in-building air system similar to a standpipe that firefighters use...
Elevator-facilitated air resupply fails at every point.
See a live demonstration of the air replenishment system known as FARS.
We use the bucket brigade tactic to manually shuttle air cylinders into a building
This structure is basically a high rise turned upside-down
So what is a FARS? How does it work?
They need a refill but may not want to go through the effort to replenish if they are “just doing overhaul work.”
Standpipes are the best answer for water. FARS is the best answer for air.
Brian P. Kazmierzak, EFO, CTO I recently returned from a couple days in Oakland, CA after attending the National Fallen Firefighters (NFFF) Technology Summit. This is the second time I have attended an NFFF technology event, having attended in 2014 as well. It...
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