Mayday Monday: Are You Radio Ready?
Tony Carroll offers some thoughts on radio use and the Mayday and reflects on the line-of-duty death of Howard County (MD) Lieutenant Nate Flynn.
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East Norwich (NY) Firefighters Respond to Fire at Large Home
FirstOnScenePhotos shared some photos from the scene of a fire in a large home in Nassau County, New York, on Easter Sunday.
Single-Family to Multifamily Home Conversions: The Hidden Monsters
William Thalheimer on the potential hidden dangers in fires at structures that have been converted from single- to multi-occupancy.
Video: Large Area Residential Search
Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Rescue shared a firefighter training video on issues involved in large area residential search operations.
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Podcast: BuildingsonFire: Taking It to the Streets
In this episode, Chris Naum offers insights on firefighting concerns for Mega Mansions and large area homes.
Podcast: BuildingsonFire: Mega Mansions and Large-Area Residential
Host Chris Naum discusses considerations for fire operations in mega mansions and large-area residentials.
Greg Jakubowski: Mega Mansion Fires
Greg Jakubowski discusses that Mega Mansion fires may be not the usual house fire and present many difficulties.
FIGHTING FIRES IN “MONSTER HOUSES”
A trend in today’s residential construction and one that has been growing for some time throughout the country is the development of single-family dwellings of extreme size and volume.
“MONSTER” HOUSES: UPDATE
In many areas of the country, the increased sizes of homes can pose challenges of "monstrous" proportions for firefighters responding to fires in these structures.
Large (“Monster”) House Fires
In Howard County, Maryland, a fire totally destroyed a newly built "monster" house (a house of large proportions, from 8,000 square feet and up), in a nonhydranted area.