If we wish to avoid increasing the incidence of firefighter injuries and fatalities in these unfamiliar structures, we will need more planning, education, and training for fire department personnel, writes Greg Havel.
Greg Havel discusses some considerations for firefighters responding to an emergency at a facility with a boiler or other heating appliance with a discharging pressure relief valve.
Gregory Havel continues his look at the basic construction and building blocks of the structural foundations to which firefighters will eventually have to respond.
Dive into the topics you can't ignore - everything from the role of emerging technology to leadership and management insights for today's fire service.
For his new Construction Concerns, Gregory Havel examines the structural issues surrounding the July 17, 1981, collapse of the Hyatt Regency skywalks in Kansas City, Missouri, the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history until the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11.
"Galvanic corrosion" is damage caused when two dissimilar metals are joined in the presence of an electrolyte. Greg Havel on how this phenomenon can affect building construction and firefighting operations.
Greg Havel looks at methods for mitigating corrosion in dry-pipe sprinkler systems, including nitrogen generators, and what firefighters need to know about them.
Corrosion of a metal can be defined as its degrading from a reaction with its environment. Greg Havel looks closer at this phenomenon and what it might mean for firefighters.
In this new column on building construction details for firefighters, Greg Havel looks at another method used for placing concrete at construction sites.