Posts Tagged: Research
Looking Back at One Meridian Plaza High Rise Fire: 1991
On what began as an uneventful Saturday night twenty-one years ago, a fire on the 22nd floor of the 38-story Meridian Bank Building, also known as One Meridian Plaza, was reported to the Philadelphia Fire Department.
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510 minutes that shape EMS: The Eagles speak in Dallas
14th gathering of US Metropolitan Municipalities Medical Directors. What is coming next for EMS?
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NFPA 2010 Fire Loss in the U.S. Report issued
Public fire departments responded to 1,331,500 fires in the United States during 2010, a slight decrease from the previous year and the lowest number since 1977 according to the NFPA in it's report release.
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Two and Three-Man Crews Entry No.2:
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Ladder-1 is the only company in the department that gets a green light on every fire.
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Tillered Aerials and Safety Collaboration
We find too often that people are unwilling to accept the observations and experiences of others and instead "reinvent the wheel" regularly, wasting time and money in the process.
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Who to believe: Judge in Rhode Island & professor in Georgia come to different conclusions about a connection between safety & firefighter staffing.
Judge rules against union on ladder shut down, but study doesn't seem to support judge's findings.
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Smells Like Innovation
I have asked students and others for a number of years, "What changes can you see for emergency services that would revolutionize our industry?"
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Be Careful Who Is Interpreting The Data.
Asst. Professor In Firefighter Personality Study Says Globe Was Wrong
"Harmon’s implication that firefighters are morally inferior is not justifiable."
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UL: Impact Of Fire Behavior, Ventilation
"Every new ventilation opening provides a new flow path to the fire and vice versa. This could create very dangerous conditions when there is a ventilation limited fire."
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Residential Fire Sprinkler Comparison
If this doesn't illustrate the live-saving capability of residential sprinklers, I don't know what else to tell you. You can dry things off after they get wet. You can't unburn your family or your home.
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Help Wanted
HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO SEE FIRE/RESCUE/EMS agencies do a better job in selecting the best candidates for hiring?
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Doctoral Research Request
Research comes calling for firefighter volunteers. Can you help?
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How Far Outside Your Box? Frontiers Around You
Anyone who demonstrates an obsession for the status quo and fails to think about the future with an open mind is only setting the table for their eventual obsolescence.
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NIST Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiments ISSUED
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The NIST Firefighter Safety and Deployment Study; Titled- Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiements was issued this morning. A copy of the report is attached. The report is also available f…
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NIST Firefighter Safety and Deployment Study to be issued Wednesday
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is scheduled to issue the results of a multi-institutional landmark national study on the effects of fi…
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Technology Assessment
Our organization is really embracing some new concepts right now in an effort to improve capability. Sometimes these ideas work and sometimes they do not. But the act of trying these things out are learning opportunities in themselves.
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US&R in Haiti: Wishing vs. Planning
Every community must understand its vulnerabilities and the potential for disaster, and plan accordingly. The caveat to this is, that despite the presence of a written plan, you can have every contingency covered and discussed, if you don’t understand and practice the plan, it isn’t worth the paper it is written on.
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The New Lexicon and Challenges
Of the many issues affecting the Fire Service, the prevailing challenge that has a pronounced impact on operational safety is the assimilation of engineered structural systems (ESS) into mainstream building design and construction. The presence of engine…
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Buildingsonfire.com Launching Soon
Buildingsonfire.com Launching January 2010An Informational, Reference and Training web site Dedicated to the Art & Science of Building Construction, Firefighting and Command Risk Management to promote Firefighter SafetyAdvancing Training, Knowledge, Skil…
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Another Average Week…for most of us
During this week, there were on average, over 10,173 structure fires in the United States. According to NFPA statistics the following occur on average in the U.S;
• A fire department responded to a fire every 20 seconds.
• One structure fire was …
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Looking at the Big Picture
A recent posting by Chief Ben Waller on the Candle-Moth Syndrome and the reference to Target Fixation brings to light some very important insights related to buildings, occupancies and the risk assessment process.The relationship of target fixation and f…
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