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Attic Fires in Residential Buildings Report
 The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has recently issued a special report examining the characteristics of Attic Fires in Residential Buildings (PDF,...
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Charleston Sofa Super Store Fire; Final NIST Report Issued
  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final report on its study of the June 18, 2007, fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., that trapped and killed...
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NIOSH LODD Report Released on Fire and Collapse Which Killed Two Chicago...
NIOSH LODD Report Released on Fire and Collapse Which Killed Two Chicago Firefighters F2010-38 Two Career Fire Fighters Die and 19 Injured in Roof Collapse during Rubbish Fire at an Abandoned...
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Los Angeles Firefighters Battle Major Emergency at Townhouses Under construction
Los Angeles Firefighters Battle Major Emergency at Townhouses Under Construction Under-construction building fire forces dozens of evacuations  Six Townhouses Under Construction Photo, Onscene.TV...
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Bridging The Gap: Fire Safety and Green Buildings Guide
Bridging The Gap: Fire Safety and Green Buildings Guide A Fire and Safety Building Guide to Green Construction The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM)Â has released its fire and...
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Predictability and Performance Of Buildings and Today’s Fireground
Understanding the distinctiveness of your first-due, mutual aid or greater-alarm response area requires constant vigilance and continuous observations. Building knowledge equals firefighter safety....
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Field Trips
Building Anatomy If you don’t know how the building was built, its materials, the degree of compartmentation, workmanship, level of fixed or passive systems and layout: then how do you expect to...
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Don’t Ignore your Buildings-Just because it’s Cold outside
Buildingsonfire-Don’t Ignore Your Buildings  Getting out onto your streets is not a once a year gig or only confined to good weather: you need to stay abreast of your buildings all year long. Your...
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Chesapeake (VA) Auto Parts Store Roof Collapse Double LODD 1996-2016
Roof Collapse Chesapeake VA 1996 Double LODD Lessons from the Fireground: 1996-2016 Incident Overview Twenty  years ago, on March 18, 1996, two firefighters were killed in Chesapeake, Virginia when...
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Lessons from the Fireground: Hackensack and Gloucester
As we approach the July 4th holiday period, two significant LODD incidents previously occurred during this time frame that hold a number of lessons learned related to command management, operations,...
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