Emergency/Fire Management Services Research Guide

In the first of this new series, creator John Norman discusses the challenge of protecting occupants, whether you have sufficient manpower or while trying to deal with fire when there is insufficient manpower. He outlines standard operation procedures for the fireground and explains how to remain flexible for non-standard situations. He also reinforces the message that all positions are important to the success of the operation.

These roofs are the cause of many deaths and serious injuries, and their use is increasing. Case studies, definitions and term, lightweight and timber trusses, construction features, conflicting size-ups, and safe operating procedures.

New conclusions based on oberving hundreds of fires, how firefighters are as likely to get killed outside a burning building as inside, the different kinds of walls, the three ways they collapse, how far they fall, establishing a danger zone, proper use of hose stream, flanking, responsibilities of officers and men.

Demonstrates on-scene accountability; shows case studies of tragic floor collapses; shows floor-deck failure, floor-beam support, floor systems, and warning signs of collapse; and demonstrates firefighter evacuation.

Explains the most common U.S. building construction, illustrates types and features of construction and how buildings collapse, and demonstrates safety procedures and special dangers.

The most common and dangerous roof for firefighters. This DVD explains the types and construction, three ways they can collapse, protection, firefighter falls, slope or pitch, most dangerous surfaces, and safety procedures.

Backdraft & smoke explosions: Superheated smoke is strong enough to push back the attack team and injure personnel. Chief Dunn helps you identify its causes and warning signs, and shows you how to protect yourself and your department personnel from injuries.
Master stream safety: Describes the safe use of...the fire stream. Chief Dunn discusses general safety rules for master stream use and the safe transition from interior to exterior attack.

The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives and leading women in New York's society.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. With extraordinary access granted by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, "Engineering Ground Zero" follows the five-year construction of One World Trade Center (1 WTC) and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Draws on local records and the testimony of survivors to tell the story of the Mann Gulch fire, August 5,1949. Fifteen smokejumpers, members of the United States Forest Service's airborne firefighters, were caught up in a fireball, and only three survived. The lessons learned from the tragedy at Mann Gulch helped to develop better and safer methods of forest and wildfire firefighting.

A ferocious fire rages through Yellowstone National Park with thousands of tourists directly in its path - until one determined firefighter uses instinct and savvy to manipulate the blaze and save thousands of lives.

A session presented at the FDIC (Fire Department Instructors Conference) in Indianapolis, 2001. Discusses ways in which fire departments can drive their members to take pride in their job and assume owndership.