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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
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FDNY Brooklyn Box 4080: 17 Vandalia Avenue 12.18.1998

FDNY: The 23rd Street Fire and Collapse October 17, 1966-2018 52th Anniversary and Remembrance
October 16, 2018 | building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Collapse, construction, FDNY, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighting-operations, floors, in-the-line-of-duty, LODD, ordinary, Remembrance, Renovations | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Remembering the “23rd Street Fire” October 17, 1966-2018; 52th Anniversary and Remembrances On October 17th, 1966, Manhattan Dispatch recorded an alarm from a resident at 7 East 22nd Street for smoke on the 4th floor of a brownstone. Box 0598 was transmitted at 2136 hours. Engine 14, 3 & 16, Ladders 3 & 12, Battalion […]

The Waldbaum Fire and Collapse: FDNY 1978-2018 Honor, Remembrance, Learning’s 40th Anniversary
August 2, 2018 | "firefighter safety", Brooklyn, Building Anatomy, building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, BUILDINGSONFIRE, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Collapse, construction, failures, FDNY, fire behavior, firefighting-operations, History Repeating Event, honor, in-the-line-of-duty, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, line-of-duty, LODD, major-incidents, Naum, Others, Predictability of Performance, Readings and Learnings, Remembrance, Reports and Case Studies, roof, tactics, timber, Truss, Uncategorized | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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The Waldbaum’s Supermarket Fire and Collapse: FDNY 1978-2018 40th Anniversary Honor, Remembrance, Learning’s The Waldbaum Super market fire, Brooklyn, New York occurred on August 2, 1978. Six firefighters died in the line of duty when the roof of a burning Brooklyn supermarket collapsed, plunging 12 firefighters into the flames. The fire began in a hallway […]

Lessons from the Fireground: The 701 University Avenue Fire – Four Firefighters LODD 1978
April 9, 2017 | building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, BUILDINGSONFIRE, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, construction, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighting, firefighting-operations, honor, in-the-line-of-duty, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, LODD, major-incidents, NFPA, Occupancy Risk, operations, Remembrance, Reports, Reports and Case Studies, Sprinklers, Uncategorized | Christopher Naum | No Comments

Remembering the 701 University Ave Fire: 1978 in Syracuse, New York

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
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Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today

Lessons from the Fireground: Watts Street Fire-FDNY 1994
March 27, 2016 | building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, FDNY, fire behavior, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, line-of-duty, LODD, NIST, Others, Reports and Case Studies | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Lessons from the Fireground: Watts Street Fire-FDNY 1994 On the evening of March 28, 1994, FDNY responded to a report of heavy smoke and sparks from a chimney of a three-story apartment building located at 62 Watts Street, in the Borough of Manhattan.(NYC). Smoke and sparks were evident from the chimney upon arrival of first-due […]

Mega Mansions- Insights from the Maryland Childs Point Road Fire
August 7, 2015 | Architectural Design, Building Anatomy, building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, BUILDINGSONFIRE, Christopher Naum, construction, decision-making, Fatalities, fire behavior, Fire Flow, firefighting-operations, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, mass-casualty-incident, Occupancy Risk, Predictability of Performance, Reports and Case Studies, structure fires, THE MODERN FIREGROUND | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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  On Monday, January 19, 2015, a fire occurred at a residential dwelling located at 936 Childs Point Road, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 21401.  The two-story occupied single family dwelling was approximately 16,386 square feet in size and sustained a complete loss to the structure and contents. The damage was estimated to be approximately […]

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
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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 […]

Operational Considerations for Residential Basement Fires
February 12, 2015 | buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Collapse, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighting-operations, floors, in-the-line-of-duty, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, NIOSH, Occupancy Risk | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Operational Considerations for Residential Basement Fires Basement fires in both residential and commercial occupancies are one of the most challenging tactical operations that present numerous risk factors requiring the highest degree of situational awareness, training skill sets and continuous incident monitoring and assessment to gauge building structural integrity, fire behavior and fire dynamics and corresponding […]

NIST/Simulation of a Fire in a Hillside Residential Structure San Francisco, CA
January 31, 2015 | BUILDINGSONFIRE, fire behavior, Fire Flow, fire suppression, in-the-line-of-duty, LESSONS FROM THE FIREGROUND, LODD, Occupancy Risk, Research & Development | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Buildingsonfire Lessons from the Fireground – NIST/Simulation of a Fire in a Hillside Residential Structure San Francisco, CA On June 2, 2011, a fire in a multi-level, wood-frame residential structure claimed the life of two firefighters of the San Francisco (CA) Fire Department. NIST examined the fire dynamics of this incident at the request of […]

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