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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 […]

The Bowstring Truss
July 1, 2017 | Building Anatomy, BUILDINGSONFIRE, construction, roof, Truss | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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The Bowstring Truss There’s a tremendous lack of understanding in the American Fire Service as to what accurately defines and comprises a Heavy Timber Bowstring Truss and the Operational and Safety Precautions that must be recognized, implemented and trained on, in order to achieve and maintain operational excellence, company integrity and firefighter safety on the […]

Cugees Restaurant Roof Collapse-1981 LAFD
March 31, 2013 | Arson, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, construction, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting, firefighting-operations, in-the-line-of-duty, line-of-duty, LODD, major-incidents, Mayday, roof | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Recalling the Cugees Fire and Collapse of 1981

Chicago: Anatomy of a Building and its Collapse
December 27, 2010 | "firefighter safety", building construction, buildingsonfire.com, Collapse, firefighting-operations, LODD, risk, roof | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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The single story commercial structure was vacant, however it was readily known that squatters were known to seek shelter in the abandoned structure especially give the harsh weather being experienced in the city.