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Predictability of Occupancy Performance during Suppression Operations
February 12, 2010 | "Situational Awareness" assessment, building construction, buildings, Christopher Naum, Combat Fire Engagement, construction, decision-making, dynamics, fire behavior, firefighting-operations, LODD, Lumber, Occupancy Risk, operations, risk-based assessment, Safety Culture, structure fires, survival | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Our buildings have changed; the structural systems of support, the degree of compartmentation, the characteristics of materials and the magnitude of fire loading. The structural anatomy, predictability of building performance under fire conditions, structural integrity and the extreme fire behavior; accelerated growth rate and intensively levels typically encountered in buildings of modern construction during initial […]

FDNY Brooklyn Box 4080: 17 Vandalia Avenue 12.18.98
December 18, 2009 | "firefighter safety", "Situational Awareness" assessment, Brooklyn, building construction, construction, dynamics, FDNY, fire behavior, first-due, high-rise, History Repeating Event, NIOSH, NIST, Occupancy Risk, structure fires, survival, tactics | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Take a moment to look back at an incident: On December 18, 1998, Three FDNY Firefighters died in-the line of duty while conducting suppression and rescue operations at  fire on the tenth floor of 10-story high-rise apartment building for the elderly.  At 0454 hours Brooklyn transmitted box 4080 for a top floor fire at 17 Vandalia […]