With more firefighters falling victim to “bread and butter” fires (single-family, type V construction), residential homes must be safer for the families who live in them and for firefighters.
With all the constitu-ents involved in the decision-making process and the concerns that have to be addressed, getting a new firehouse can take longer than potentially expected.
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The DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY awarded WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE $430,000 to continue to develop its own technology and to also conduct a national test of all existing indoor tracking and monitoring systems.
Last month we started discussing the natural competition that occurs between the incident commander’s (IC’s) brain and heart and how difficult it can be to stay calm while commanding an incident that is both tactically and emotionally challenging—in fact, most events that are difficult tactically will also in some way beat up the IC’s emotions.
An article in the February 18, 2008, edition of the Las Vegas Sun, “Fire alarm doesn’t mean fire department is coming,” reports on a new policy of the Henderson (NV) Fire Department stating that it will no longer respond to residential fire alarms unless a secondary means of verification is reported (e.g., visible fire) or a water-flow device has been activated.
Defined as a graphical or numerical waveform that shows the continual presence of carbon dioxide (CO2) throughout ventilation, waveform capnography is considered the gold standard for assessing airway patency in intubated or spontaneously breathing patients.