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Main Street Memo buildings and tools

Main Street Memo: Buildings Dictate Tactics and Tools

This training bulletin examines some of the implications of building construction for your crews' tool and equipment selection.
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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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Main Street Memo RIT

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.
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Main Street Memo Queen Anne and Victorian residential

Main Street Memo: Victorian and Queen Anne Homes

These stately homes can present an array of firefighting challenges. Joe Pronesti, Chris Tobin, and Lex Shady have a closer look.
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Combustible Cornices

Main Street Memo: Combustible Cornices

This month's firefighter training bulletin on building construction examines cornices and their potential impact on firefighting operations.
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straight run stairs

Main Street Memo: Straight-Run Stairs

This month’s firefighter training bulletin on building construction focuses on the implications of straight-run stairs on fire behavior.
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Main Street Firefighting

Main Street Firefighting: Joe Pronesti

Chris Tobin and Lex Shady talk with guest Joe Pronesti about bowstring trusses and the Hackensack (NJ) Ford Fire.
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Commercial cellars

Main Street Memo: Commercial Cellars

Leaving someone at the top of the cellar stairs is a great legacy tactic that must remain on today’s modern fireground.
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Parapet lintel

Main Street Memo: Parapet Lintel

Joe Pronesti, Chris Tobin, and Alexis Shady examine considerations involving the parapet lintel.
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Fingers of smoke

Main Street Memo: Fingers of Smoke

Joe Pronesti, Chris Tobin, and Alexis Shady take a look at what smoke behavior can suggest about fire conditions in your "Main Street" buildings.
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Showroom bump out

Main Street Memo: Showroom Bump Out

Joe Pronesti, Chris Tobin, and Alexis Shady take a look at a unique feature of your typical Main Street building construction.
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Bathroom floors

Main Street Memo: Bathroom Floors

Joe Pronesti, Chris Tobin, and Alexis Shady consider some construction aspects when it comes to firefighting operations and bathroom floors.
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Main Street Memo: Coping Stones

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Main Street Memo: Stairs

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Main Street Memo: Structural Hierarchy and Floor Collapse

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Main Street Memo: Combustible Porches

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Main Street Memo: Churches

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Main Street Memo: Upper Floors

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Main Street Memo: Planes of Weakness

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Main Street Memo: Parging

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Main Street Memo: Tin

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Main Street Memo: Cracks

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Main Street Memo: Roofs

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Back to Main Street: Five More Reminders When Facing Main Street Fires

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