Death in the Line of Duty…A summary of a NIOSH fire fighter fatality investigation F2018-06 Date Released: May 22, 2019 On March 22, 2018, two male career fire fighters, ages 50 and 29, died fo...
Computer-Based Fire Fighter Training Project Through this project, the Fire Research Division at NIST is developing a computer based fire fighting training tool to improve training oppor...
https://buildingsonfire.com/computer-based-fire-fighter-training-project
Today December 3, 2011 marks the 12th anniversary of the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire that resulted in the line of duty death of six courages brother firefighters. For those of you...
https://buildingsonfire.com/remembrance-worcester-cold-storage-warehouse-fire-and-the-worcester-six
“Hal Bruno is one of the most important figures in the history of this country’s fire service. Hal died last night (November 8, 2011) at age 83. I imagine that many of the younger firefigh...
https://buildingsonfire.com/hal-bruno-the-best-friend-a-firefighter-and-the-fire-service-could-have
Size-Up and Risk Assessment Skills: How are yours? In this week’s issue of the National Fire Fighter’s Near-Miss Reporting System’s Report of the Week (ROTW) an informative focus was ...
NFPA releases state-level fire service needs assessment for every U.S. state. Findings based on Third Needs Assessment of the U.S. Fire Service with comparisons to earlier studies The Nation...
Fire Death Rate Trends: An International Perspective The United States still has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialized world, but our standing has greatly improved. Falling fr...
https://buildingsonfire.com/fire-death-rate-trends-an-international-perspective
Captain Araguz, a 30 year old, 11-year veteran of the Wharton Volunteer Fire Department made Captain in 2009. He lost his life while battling a multiple alarm fire a the Maxim Egg Farm located at...
https://buildingsonfire.com/texas-captain-2010-lodd-report-issued-with-lessons-learned
Mayor Bloomberg, Council Speaker Quinn unveil reforms to overhaul illegal apartment ‘firetraps’ BY Greg B. Smith DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Form June 7, 2011, http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...
https://buildingsonfire.com/new-york-city-to-crack-down-on-illegally-divided-apartments
The Albuquerque Fire Department seeks to improve operations from past performance Four firefighters with the Albuquerque (NM) Fire Department were injured during operations at a three-alarm fire ...
While the number of structural fires in the United States continues to decline, firefighter line of duty deaths (LODD) do not exhibit the same rate of proportion decline. A review of both NFPA an...
https://buildingsonfire.com/analytical-study-reveals-patterns-in-u-s-firefighter-fatalities
2 Firefighters Escape Close Call in Belle Harbor: MyFoxNY.com Published reports from various NYC eMedia outlets indicated that two FDNY firefighters battling a three-alarm fire on Saturday April ...
https://buildingsonfire.com/double-mayday-deployments-at-three-alarm-fdny-fire
The Colerain Township (OH) Fire and EMS Department under the leadership of Director and Chief G. Bruce Smith released its final report Investigation Analysis of the Squirrels nest Lane Firefighte...
https://buildingsonfire.com/eleven-minutes-to-mayday-what-you-need-to-know
OVERVIEW Fifteen years ago, on March 18, 1996, two firefighters were killed in Chesapeake, Virginia when they became trapped by a rapidly spreading fire in an auto parts store and a pre-engineere...
https://buildingsonfire.com/chesapeake-va-auto-parts-store-roof-collapse-double-lodd-1996
Survivability Profiling: How Long Can Victims Survive in a Fire? BY STEPHEN MARSAR FireEngineering.com July 1, 2010 In 2007, the United States suffered 118 firefighter line-of-duty-deaths ...
https://buildingsonfire.com/survivability-profiling-how-long-can-victims-survive-in-a-fire