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First point to consider in fires of steel-framed buildings (2/11)
By Daniel Cortés Blasco on Septiembre 11, 2013 in fire consulting, fire engineering, fire research, fire tactics
The time Tic, tac, tic, tac...The bell rings and the firefighters go to the fire but, for how long has been the fire running? This is the most important question we have to ask ourselves when we go to fire in a steel-framed buildings. We can estimate approximately when the fire has started but […]
Effectiveness of Fire Service Vertical Ventilation and Suppression Tactics
By Daniel Cortés Blasco on Septiembre 2, 2013 in fire engineering, fire research, fire tactics, training
Today surfing on Internet, have found an on-line free course that implement vertical ventilation and suppression tactics to attack fires in singles family homes.You can select your course path, completed (2 hours), abbreviated (1 hour) and instructor (2+ hours). The course has been structured in five modules: Module 1: Introduction Module 2: Modern residential fire […]
10 points to consider in fires of steel-framed buildings (1/11)
The Cardington Fire Tests were a series of large-scale fire tests conducted in real steel-framed structures at the village of Cardington, Bedfordshire, England. Funded by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Partners in Technology, the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering (previously the Structures in Fire Group) at the University […]
PPA, positive pressure attack
Today I want to share some documents about tactical ventilation, the author (Arturo Arnalich) works as a Battalion Chief in Guadalajara Fire Service in Spain and he has done a great work related with this task. We can see two *.ppt about positive pressure ventilation (English and Spanish version), and a document that he wrote […]