Comments on: CONTACT http://raisingladders.com 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 By: Bill Glover http://raisingladders.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-2176 Bill Glover Tue, 01 May 2012 16:38:27 +0000 http://raisingladders.com/?page_id=113#comment-2176 <a href="http://raisingladders.com/2009/05/burn-week-part-2-external-sites/" title="Permanent link to Burn Week, part 2: external sites." rel="nofollow">Burn Week, part 2: external sites.</a> 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 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 <a href="http://www.firetrain.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.firetrain.com/blog</a>. Thanks. 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.

]]> By: Allan http://raisingladders.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-590 Allan Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:41:51 +0000 http://raisingladders.com/?page_id=113#comment-590 Great site brother. I work next door in Fairfax and check this site often. Wish more folks had your outlook on the fire dept. Allan FS 430 B Merrifield, VA Great site brother. I work next door in Fairfax and check this site often. Wish more folks had your outlook on the fire dept.

Allan
FS 430 B
Merrifield, VA

]]> By: Jason http://raisingladders.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-488 Jason Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:47:43 +0000 http://raisingladders.com/?page_id=113#comment-488 Good write up on the DFB. I'm an EMT in Ireland and I happen to work with Glen Delves' father. If your still looking for contacts in the DFB let me know. By the way, if your interested in patches & T-shirts from my region I might be able to rustle something up. It might like this page http://blues-twos.com/ Good write up on the DFB. I’m an EMT in Ireland and I happen to work with Glen Delves’ father. If your still looking for contacts in the DFB let me know. By the way, if your interested in patches & T-shirts from my region I might be able to rustle something up. It might like this page http://blues-twos.com/

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