http://raisingladders.com/2009/05/burn-week-part-2-external-sites/ For anyone who ever wanted to grow up and become a firefighter... from someone who did just that. Tue, 01 May 2012 16:38:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://raisingladders.com/2009/05/burn-week-part-2-external-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-2162 Bill Glover Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:24:38 +0000 http://raisingladders.com/2009/05/27/burn-week-part-2-external-sites/#comment-2162 Hi: My name is Bill Glover, President of High Temperature Linings, the manufacturer of the structural lining system you reference at the Loudoun County Live Fire Training Structure. Coincidentally, you will also find our system installed in the MFRI buildings, and in Washington D.C.'s new Class A structure. Contrary to your statement that the "space tiles" ....are there "to get the enclosure as hot as possible", please be corrected to understand that our objective is definitely NOT to get the space as hot as possible. In fact, the objective is to simply protect the structural components of the training structure from the heat and thermal shock associated with live fire training. It is absolutely imperative that all live fire training officers understand that fire loads and numbers of evolutions <strong>must</strong> be controlled so that burn rooms do not become overheated. The purpose of a burn building is NOT to replicate conditions found in actual fire ground fires. That is simply impossible. The burn building is not combustible; and you can create conditions in burn rooms that are worse than you will find on a fire ground. Simply put, if the same conditions existing in a house fire, the house would not be there. Burn buildings are intended to be used to train and practice tactics and skills associated with incident command, VES, laddering, advancing hose lines, and finally some nozzle work and suppression. But that last part is only about 10 to 20% of the intended training. Burn buildings are not intended to expose firefighters to "the hottest environments possible". To do so is unnecessary, dangerous, and in many cases, just plain wrong. All training divisions should follow the new standard operating procedure requirements to control burn room environments, found in the 2012 Edition of the National Fire Protection Association's document 1403. Please see my blog at <a href="http://www.firetrain.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.firetrain.com/blog</a>. Thanks. Hi:
My name is Bill Glover, President of High Temperature Linings, the manufacturer of the structural lining system you reference at the Loudoun County Live Fire Training Structure. Coincidentally, you will also find our system installed in the MFRI buildings, and in Washington D.C.'s new Class A structure.
Contrary to your statement that the "space tiles" ….are there "to get the enclosure as hot as possible", please be corrected to understand that our objective is definitely NOT to get the space as hot as possible. In fact, the objective is to simply protect the structural components of the training structure from the heat and thermal shock associated with live fire training.
It is absolutely imperative that all live fire training officers understand that fire loads and numbers of evolutions must be controlled so that burn rooms do not become overheated. The purpose of a burn building is NOT to replicate conditions found in actual fire ground fires. That is simply impossible. The burn building is not combustible; and you can create conditions in burn rooms that are worse than you will find on a fire ground. Simply put, if the same conditions existing in a house fire, the house would not be there.
Burn buildings are intended to be used to train and practice tactics and skills associated with incident command, VES, laddering, advancing hose lines, and finally some nozzle work and suppression. But that last part is only about 10 to 20% of the intended training. Burn buildings are not intended to expose firefighters to "the hottest environments possible". To do so is unnecessary, dangerous, and in many cases, just plain wrong.
All training divisions should follow the new standard operating procedure requirements to control burn room environments, found in the 2012 Edition of the National Fire Protection Association's document 1403.
Please see my blog at http://www.firetrain.com/blog.
Thanks.

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