Original post found at: This video is from last week in Charlotte, MI. Crews give this description below and included “Water does push fire”. What do you think. Attached Garage and House Fire 3/12/2014. This video is from the dash cam of unit 312, a mini pumper with 2 firemen … [Read more...]
ORIGINAL POST AT: http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/2014/03/are-you-listening-to-the-research.html By Brian P. Kazmierzak and Drew R. Smith Have you, your fire department, or the fire service really been listening to the message behind all of the new modern fire behavior … [Read more...]
Dear Nozzlehead: I know you’ve written about direct and indirect fire attack before, but so many studies, blogs and articles have come out in the last year about it, making this very confusing. I also notice that there seem to be two “camps” on these studies on attacking the … [Read more...]
ORIGINAL POST AT: http://cfbt-us.com/wordpress/?p=2000 Milestone! As I was preparing to upload this post, I realized that this is the 200th CFBT-US Blog Post since its inception in August of 2008. Quite a lot has happened since then. In 2008 there were few people in the fire … [Read more...]
Kevin O’Toole and Ethan Sorrell were trapped in a house fire on February 24th, 2012 in Prince Georges County Maryland. They were both riding Truck Company 9 of the Bladensburg Volunteer Fire Department responding to a reported house fire in the first due response area of a … [Read more...]
UL FSRI Director Steve Kerber, NIST Fire Protection Engineer Dan Madrzykowski and Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief of Training Derek Alkonis team up to present a 7 part video lecture series titled “NIST and UL Research on Fire Behavior & Fireground Tactics.” The … [Read more...]
In 2004, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation held the first Firefighter Life Safety Summit in Tampa, FL. This event fostered the development of the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives, a collaborative effort by the entire U.S. fire service to eliminate all preventable … [Read more...]