FIRE THEORY / BEHAVIOUR
Lesson Plans:
Resource One
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YouTube Videos:
Fireground Size-Up and How to Read Smoke
Principles of Modern Fire Attack: SLICE-RS: Identify and Control the Flow Path
What’s the difference between SLICERS and RECEO VS?
Tactical Considerations: Fire Flows from High Pressure to Low Pressure
Tactical Considerations: Nothing Showing Means Nothing
Tactical Considerations: Forcing the Front Door Must be Thought of as Ventilation
Tactical Consideration: Fire Development Changes When a Fire Becomes Ventilation Limited
Tactical Consideration: Get Water in the Eaves for Attic Fires
Tactical Consideration: Pushing Fire
Tactical Consideration: Flow Path and Suppression Must be Considered Together
Tactical Consideration: Keep the Wind at Your Back
Tactical Consideration: Transitional Attack with Fire Showing Near the Entry Point
Tactical Consideration: There Can be Survivable Spaces on Arrival
Tactical Consideration: If You Get Water Where It Needs to Go, You Don’t Need Much
Understanding the Basics: Heat Release Rate Vs Temperature
Tactical Consideration: The Door Closest to the Apparatus Should not Dictate Line Placement
Tactical Consideration: Initiate You Firefight on the Same Level as the Fire
Tactical Consideration: Basement Fires – Don’t Get Caught in the Flow Path Exhaust
Tactical Consideration: Building Construction Affects Fire Behaviour
Tactical Consideration: Termal Imagers – Structural Stability
Tactical Consideration: Understand How Heat Transfers Through Turnout Gear
Tactical Consideration: Your Workplace Has Changed: You Need to Evolve
Tactical Consideration: Follow the Rules of Live-Fire Training
Tactical Consideration: There is No Substitute for Knowledge
Part 1 of 7: (Intro) NIST & UL Research on Fire Behavior & Fireground Tactics
Part 2 of 7: (Fire Environment) NIST & UL Research on Fire Behavior & Fireground Tactics
Part 3 of 7: (Fire Dynamics) NIST & UL Research on Fire Behavior & Fireground Tactics
Part 4 of 7: (Case Studies) NIST & UL Research on Fire Behavior & Fireground Tactics
Part 5 of 7: (Fire Behavior Training ) NIST & UL Research on Fire Behavior
Part 6 of 7: (Live Fire Tests) NIST & UL Research on Fire Behavior
Part 7 of 7: (Organizational Change) NIST & UL Research on Fire Behavior
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