Welcome to Buildingsonfire.com
By Christopher J. Naum, SFPE on Dec 05, 2010 with Comments 0
- Executive Producer Christopher Naum
Welcome to Buildingsonfire.com.
The authoritative and informational site that provides leading insights on fire service issues related to Building Construction for the Fire Service, Emerging Firefighting Operations Theory and Command Risk Management for Operational Excellence and Firefighter Safety.
If you don’t fully understand how a building truly performs or reacts under fire conditions and the variables that can influence its stability and degradation, movement of fire and products of combustion and the resource requirements for fire suppression in terms of staffing, apparatus and required fire flows, then you will be functioning and operating in a reactionary manner.
This places higher risk to your personnel and lessens the likelihood for effective, efficient and safe operations. You’re just not doing your job effectively and you’re at RISK. These risks can equate into insurmountable operational challenges and could lead to adverse incident outcomes. Someone could get hurt, someone could die, it’s that simple, it’s that obvious.
There is a need to gain the building construction knowledge and insights and to change and adjust operating profiles in order to safe guard companies, personnel and team compositions. It’s all about understanding the building-occupancy relationships and the art and science of firefighting, integrating effective incident and command decision-making, dynamic risk assessment and management, coupled with streaming situational awareness and measured firefighting; Building Knowledge = Firefighter Safety, its all about going home after that call.
The traditional attitudes and beliefs of equating aggressive firefighting operations in all occupancy types coupled with the correlating, established and pragmatic operational strategies and tactics must be adjusted and modified to include intelligent risk assessment, calculated risk analysis, safety and survivability profiling, and strategic operational and tactical value.
The demands and requirements of modern firefighting will continue to require the placement of personnel within situations and buildings that carry risk, uncertainty and inherent danger. As a result, risk management must become fluid and integrated with intelligent tactical deployments and operations recognizing the risk problematically and not fatalistically, resulting in safety conscious strategies and tactics. We need to think about the Predicative Strategic Process, refined Tactical Deployment Models integrating intelligent Structural Anatomy, and Predictive Occupancy Profiling, Effectively Reading the Building and Tactical Patience.
The principle mission of Buildsonfire.com is simple; to provide a single consolidated source and repository of information relevant to the Art and Science of Firefighting diametrically integral to Building Construction, Architecture, Fire Dynamics, Engineering, Training and Firefighter Safety through Operational Excellence.
Buildingsonfire.com will strive to provide you with the information, research, data, materials, resources and links you need to meet the demands and obligations of your position, increase your skills and competencies or support your personal development thru continuing education and training.
It’s all about providing leading insights on fire service issues related to Building Construction for the Fire Service, Firefighting Operations and Command Management for Firefighter Safety thru Operational Excellence; it’s all about buildings on fire and how we fight them, because of who we are: Firefighters.
You’ll find a wealth of comprehensive features, categories and sections as you explore Buildingsonfire.com with new materials, references, documents, articles and links added weekly as we work diligently to populate and expand the body of information.
Building Knowledge=Firefigher Safety: Know Your World
The following list is compiled to provide guidance in identifying the Sections and Categories present within the Buildingsonfire.com site to support your informational, research and training needs while you navigate the site and its many offerings. This list will also support key terms, tags and searches.
Main Sections
- Home
- About Buildingsonfire.com
- Adaptive Fireground Management
- Anatomy of Buildings
- Buildingsonfire
- Five Star CommandTM
- Command Institute
- Training Division
- Seminars & Lectures
- Taking it to the Streets Radio
- The Research Hub
- Buildingsonfire Alerts
- The Buildingsonfire Store
- Buildingsonfire Forums (coming mid 2011)
Features
- A View from the Streets
- All Hands Reports
- In Quarters
- Vital Signs
Download a PDF Web Site Navigation Guide Here for the Complete List of Category Sections; Buildingsonfire.com Category Catalog 2011
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Category Sections
- Category
- Section
- Sub-section
- Groups
- Sub-section
- Section
Adaptive Fire Ground Management
- Predictive Occupancy Performance
- Theory & Models
- Performance
- Indicators & Aides
- Command Compression
- Command Resiliency
- Probability of Adverse Consequences
- Predicative Occupancy Performance
- Predicative Strategy
- Tactical Deployment Model
- Tactical Patience
- Tactical Entertainment
All Hands Reports
Anatomy of Buildings
- The Virtual Architect
- Architectural Technology
- Design & Theory
- The Bauhaus
- The Field Office
- Fire Protection Engineering
- Fire Dynamics & Behavior
- Extreme Fire Behavior
- Fire Behavior
- Fire Suppression
- Fire Loading & Materials
- Fire Integrity & Resistance
- Wind Drive Fire Theory
- Fire Dynamics & Behavior
- Science & Technology
- Protective Systems
- Buildings
- Structural Systems
- Engineered Systems & Materials
- The Construction Site
- Structural Triage
- The Collapse Zone
- Structural Extrication
- Structural Renovation & Deconstruction
A View from the Street
Associations
- AIA
- CFSI
- CFPS
- DHS
- EGH
- IAFC
- IAFC SHS
- IAFF
- ISFSI
- NFFF
- NFPA
- NVFC
- NFFNMRS
- NYSAFC
- SFPE
- FDSOA
- EFO
Building Construction for the Fire Service
Buildingsonfire
- Reading the Building
- Combat Fire Engagement
- Safety & Survival
- Rules of Engagement
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
- Command Risk Assessment
- Situational Awareness
- Decision-Making
- Pre-Planning
- Command Safety
- Command FACTS
- Tactical Operations
- Most Error-Likely Tactic: MELT
Buildingsonfire Alerts
Construction Profile
- Engineered
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Construction Types
- Type I Fire Resistive
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- Type III Ordinary
- Type IV Heavy Timber
- Type V Wood
- Mixed
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Construction Systems
- Assemblies
- Steel
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- Wood
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- Engineered
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- Roof
- Floor
- Wall
- Enclosure
- Compartment
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ISO
Occupancy Classifications
Occupancy Risk
Occupancy Risk Profiling
Occupancy Type
- Residential
- One & Two Family Dwelling
- Modular
- Prefabricated
- Other
- Multiple Occupancy
- Garden Apartment
- Townhouse
- Tenement
- Deckers & Flats
- Apartment Building
- Low Rise
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- Mixed Use
- Lodging & Rooming House
- Hotel & Dormitory
- Residential Board & Care
- Mercantile
- Business
- Industrial
- Manufacturing
- Storage
- Warehouse
- Occupancies in Special Structures
- Special Construction
- Special Use
- Entertainment
- Shopping Center
- High Hazard
- High-Rise
- Educational
- Assembly
- Health Care
- Detention & Correctional
- Institutional
- Miscellaneous
- Utility
- General
- Mixed
Occupancy Phase
- Not Applicable
- Abandoned
- Construction
- Unoccupied
- Vacant
- In Use
- Operational
- Renovation
- Alteration
- Demolition
- Deconstruction
- Decontamination
- Conversion
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- Retrofit
- Conservations
- Cosmetic
Research Hub
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- Case Studies
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- Media
- Documents
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- References
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- NIST
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- International
- Miscellaneous
- Statistics & Data
- Injuries
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- Operations
- Miscellaneous
- NFFF
- Everyone Goes Home
- NFFF’s Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives
- References
- Near Miss Reporting System
- USFA Library
- General Miscellaneous
- Riding List
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Thecompanyofficer.com
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