With all but the largest facilities having advanced fire brigades, and with the public fire service being either unwilling or unable to operate in a complex warehouse environment, what is the facility operator left to do? It is time to reconsider the use of contracted expert firefighters for these situations.
Unfortunately, even the most sophisticated detection and alarm systems have one inherent drawback: no alarm is of any value if no one is around to hear it and respond appropriately.
From the time that some long forgotten firefighter discovered that a hollowed out log fitted with a piston and a restriction at the end could be used to direct a stream of water onto the heart of a fire, firefighters have been involved in the evolution of emergency response tools and equipment.
Aside from the obvious use of ladders for climbing, the use of ladders as a means of supporting a rope-based rescue system appears to have been born during the Second World War.
It behooves those in charge of emergency response operations to try to strike a balance between providing protection, the physiological cost, and the technical limitations of carrying out monitoring protocols.
The man who established the first formally organized volunteer fire department in 1736 also invented bifocals, wrote and printed Poor Richard’s “Almanack,” studied electricity and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
Oklahoma State University's fire protection curriculum equips leaders in industrial hygiene, fire technology and safety.
Oklahoma State University's firefighter training curriculum traces its heritage back to the 1930s.
This is the real world. Regulations, necessary though they may be, will never replace the common sense approach of an experienced incident commander who has been significantly involved in an incident response and actually "squirted water in anger."
Granddaughter keeps memory of famed oil well firefighter alive.
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