Main Street to Mega Mansions
Christopher Naum offers some insights on the predictability of building performance and the adaptive fireground.
Building Construction
Know your enemy, said Sun Tzu, and in the case of firefighting, the firefighter’s enemy is the building, as Frank Brannigan noted. Knowledge of building construction is crucial for fireground success. Learn more about reading a building and size-up, occupancy types, structural hierarchy, different eras in building, and other topics that impact firefighting.
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This training bulletin examines some of the implications of building construction for your crews' tool and equipment selection.
BuildingsonFire: Building Construction Training, Part 3
In the third installment of this series, host Chris Naum discusses building construction training for firefighters.
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Main Street Memo: Inverted Roof
This firefighter training bulletin focuses on inverted roofs and some of the challenges they pose for firefighting operations.
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A fire at the San Luis Ranch housing development in San Luis Obispo damaged four homes.
Raleigh (NC) Deck Collapse Injures Five Construction Workers
The workers sustained nonlife-threatening injuries and were transported to an area hospital.
BuildingsonFire: Building Construction Training, Part 2
In the second installment of this series, host Chris Naum discusses building construction training for firefighters.
Main Street Memo: RIT on Main Street
The sheer size of your Main Street buildings will change how you approach rapid intervention at these fires.
BuildingsonFire: Taking It To The Streets: Building Construction Training
In the first installment of a new series, host Chris Naum discusses building construction training for firefighters.
Lightweight Construction Revisited: ‘Sprinkle’ in Some Hope
Kris Blume has a reminder about some of the hazards that make lightweight construction so challenging for firefighters.