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Comment on CONTACT by Bill Glover

Bill Glover — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:38:27 +0000

Burn Week, part 2: external sites. 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 existed 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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Comment on Burn Week, part 2: external sites. by Bill Glover

Bill Glover — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:24:38 +0000

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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Comment on Wildland (or, why I don’t want to be a firefighter in California) by raisingladders

raisingladders — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:38:09 +0000

There is still one in service at Engine 7′s quarters, yes. But no, they weren’t dispatched. (Hey, I just work here, I don’t make these decisions, haha.)

Comment on Wildland (or, why I don’t want to be a firefighter in California) by Will

Will — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:48:49 +0000

Was the DCFD brush unit dispatched? I've always found that somewhat amusing there was one (or was as of a year ago).