UL FSRI Releases Part I of the Fire Attack Study: Water Mapping

UL FSRI is pleased to release the scientific report and on-line training program from Part I of the 2013 DHS FEMA Grant, Impact of Fire Attack Utilizing Interior and Exterior Streams on Occupant Survival: Water Mapping.

This report and associated online training detail the results and analysis from a series of experiments, using fire service hose streams, conducted without the presence of fire, to gain a fundamental understanding of water distribution within a compartment.

Part II and Part III of this project looked at Air Entrainment and Full Scale Fire testing.

Read the Report

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Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

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Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

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