Glenside Lieutenant Kevin Graham and crew give an overview of the apartment pack it uses at high-rise fires. It includes the appliances in the 'bag of tricks,' how to hook up to the interior standpipe connection, how to pack the lines, and how a 4-person engine...
Alvin Buyinza - masslive.com On Friday, a five-alarm fire broke out on the 20th floor of a 43-story high rise under construction at One Congress Street, according to Boston Fire Department spokesperson Sharon Galloway. The fire started on the 20th floor and went up...
Sam Whiting - San Francisco Chronicle Several hundred residents of a San Francisco luxury apartment tower spent the weekend in two downtown hotels — and it wasn't a group staycation. Instead, the tenants of 33 Tehama St. were evacuated Friday when a water pipe broke...
By Jerry Tracy and Jack J. Murphy with James J. Murtagh High-rise fire safety experts Jerry Tracy and Jack J. Murphy, with James J. Murtagh, will soon release their new book addressing the numerous challenges of fighting fires in high-rise buildings. The book includes...
The sprinkler system has activated and extinguished a fire midway up a building. Now what? If responding firefighters aren't careful they can easily snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and make a small fire into a major headache. Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Lieutenant...
The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the world’s leading professional society for fire protection and fire safety engineering, the International Code Council (ICC), the leading global source of model building codes and standards and building safety...
Proper stairwell identification and selection we can ensure the safety of all people throughout the building By Guido Calcagno | Fire Engineering High-rise firefighting can present numerous dangers, concerns, and tactical obstacles that must be overcome...
Training with Paul Dansbach Fire Engineering Paul Dansbach looks at some of the details on a typical building standpipe system, including a combination sprinkler-standpipe riser, control valves, a pressure regulating device, and roof manifold....
A Building Construction Awareness Project Fire Engineering In this Building Construction Awareness Project presentation, the panel speaks with Charles Jennings about the One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This high-rise fire February...
Often oversimplified but in fact very complex By Clay Magee | Fire Engineering The first three parts to this series dealt mostly with issues for attack crews. However, standpipe systems are not just complicated on the attack end. They are also complex...
Training with Miami Dade Fire Rescue Fire Engineering Bill Gustin and members of the Miami Dade Fire Rescue Hazmat Bureau share a technique to clear smoke from an area using a pressurization concept derived from confined space ventilation scenarios....
A video overview of the research IAFF Lori Moore-Merrell, IAFF Assistant to the General President Jason Averill, NIST Supervisory Fire Protection Engineer Many fire departments across the nation are being challenged by budget crises, rising call volume,...
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