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Lessons from the Fireground: FDNY Vandalia Avenue 1998-2018 Twentieth Anniversary

December 18, 2018 | "firefighter safety", "pre-fire planning", "Situational Awareness" assessment, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, FDNY, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighting-operations, fires, Highrise, LODD, major-incidents, Mayday, ventilation, Wind Driven | Christopher Naum | No Comments

FDNY Brooklyn Box 4080: 17 Vandalia Avenue 12.18.1998

Colerain and Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today

April 4, 2016 | "firefighter safety", assemblies, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, BUILDINGSONFIRE, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Collapse, Combat Fire Engagement, construction, Deployment, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting, firefighting-operations, first-due, floors, in-the-line-of-duty, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, LODD, major-incidents, Mayday, NIOSH, Occupancy Risk, Reports and Case Studies, RIT, Safety, size-up, strategies, structure fires | Christopher Naum | No Comments

Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today

Chesapeake (VA) Auto Parts Store Roof Collapse Double LODD 1996-2016

March 18, 2016 | "pre-fire planning", Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, BUILDINGSONFIRE, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, construction, Engineered Structural Systems, firefighting-operations, fires, first-due, History Repeating Event, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, line-of-duty, LODD, NIOSH, pre-planning, Reading the Building, Readings and Learnings, Reports and Case Studies, USFA | Christopher Naum | No Comments

Two firefighters were killed in Chesapeake, Virginia when they became trapped by a rapidly spreading fire.

Houston Southwest Inn Fire

July 4, 2015 | "firefighter safety", Building Construction for the Fire Service, Christopher Naum, Collapse, Combat Fire Engagement, command presence, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, line-of-duty, LODD, Mayday, NIOSH, Reports and Case Studies | Christopher Naum | No Comments

Southwest Inn Hotel Fire – 2013 6855 Southwest FreewayÂ Houston, Texas May 31, 2013 Incident Number 1305310305 A few weeks ago on Fatherâ€™s Day, while in Houston (Texas) on business I stopped by to pay my solemn respects at the site of the May 31,Â 2013 SouthwestÂ InnÂ fire that claimed the lives of Four HFD firefighters and […]

Predictability of Building Performance – Expect Fire

July 4, 2015 | building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, COMMAND SAFETY, Company, decision-making, fire suppression, firefighter, firefighting-operations, fires, first-due, Taking it to the Streets, Ten Minutes in the Street, Uncategorized | Christopher Naum | No Comments

The Predictability of Building Performance must take into consideration that in the context of todayâ€™s fire ground, buildings and fire dynamics, small changes on initial compartment or structure conditions may often produce and result in large-scale or magnitude changes that affect the long term outcome of the incident. We have assumed that the routiness or […]

Ready, Set, Go…

March 23, 2015 | "Situational Awareness" assessment, building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, BUILDINGSONFIRE, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, COMMAND SAFETY, compentencies, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighter, firefighting, firefighting-operations, fires, leadership, operations, Reading the Building, risk-based assessment, strategies, tactics | Christopher Naum | No Comments

Before Making Entry, while in the street; Has someone completed or assigned the reconn for a 360 of the building? Have you looked at the Building and its Profile and Understood what you’re looking at? Made a Rapid Risk Assessment? Assessed the Building’s Anatomy? Considered the Compartment? Considered the Fire Dynamics? Assessed the Predictability of […]

Building Risk Profile, Before the First-Due

March 18, 2015 | building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, BUILDINGSONFIRE, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, Company, compentencies, construction, firefighting-operations, first-due, Naum, Occupancy Risk, Reading the Building, Uncategorized | Christopher Naum | No Comments

You are integral to all that’s required on the fireground: failure is not an option.

A View from the Street

December 29, 2014 | Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, compentencies, fire behavior, Fire Flow, fire suppression, firefighting-operations, fires | Christopher Naum | No Comments

The Art and Science of Firefighting is aligning in a manner that will ultimately forge enhancements in…

A Delicate Balance

March 25, 2013 | "pre-fire planning", building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, compentencies, construction, Engineered Structural Systems, engineered systems, fire suppression, firefighting, firefighting-operations, Lumber, LVL, pre-planning, residential, risk-based assessment, size-up, strategies, tactics, Taking it to the Streets | Christopher Naum | No Comments

Light Weight construction has given way to Engineered Structural Systems (ESS) which in today’s evolving fireground, have an even more extensive array of performance, operational and integrity issues that affect a building’s performance under fire conditions.To unequivocally state that nothing has changed in buildings, occupancies, fire flow delivery rates and demands for increased proficiencies of […]