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  1. How We Got Burned: Lessons Learned from a Wind-Driven Dwelling Fire

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    Tue, 1 Nov 2011

    while conducting a primary search at a dwelling fire in suburban Arvada, Colorado ..... happened at a suburban single-family- dwelling fire, what should have happened, and ..... in a grill at the rear exterior of the dwelling on the left behind the garage. Winds

  2. FDIC 2012: Knapp on Private-Dwelling Fires

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    Fri, 20 Apr 2012

    protecting life and property. House fires are the most important alarm we go to," said Jerry Knapp at "Modern Private- Dwelling Fires: Not Just House Fires." A training officer with the Rockland County Fire Training Center in Pomona, New York, Knapp

  1. Private-Dwelling Fire Drill

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    Fri, 1 Jul 2011

    By MICHAEL M. DUGAN This fire is in a 1½-story private dwelling . The fire conditions are rapidly changing, and members operating ..... the fire attack are the foremost tactics at these private- dwelling fires. ● MICHAEL M. DUGAN is a 36-year fire service veteran

  2. Multifamily Dwelling Fire Lessons

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    Tue, 1 Apr 2008

    Department responded to a reported fire in a multiple family dwelling located at the corner of Curtis and Overland Roads. The caller ..... structure was a two-story, wood-frame multiple family dwelling approximately 50 feet wide by 150 feet long, consisting of

  3. Detroit (MI) Firefighters Operate at Vacant Dwelling

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    Thu, 9 Feb 2012

    Battalion companies responded to a reported dwelling fire at Crane & Moffat. On arrival of Engine 46, a vacant dwelling going throughout was found. After size ..... 46 ordered a defensive attack on the dwelling . Engine 46 stretched and used their

  4. Apparatus Positioning At Multiple Dwelling Fires

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    Thu, 19 May 2011

    firefighters. I remember a fire at which I was working when I was a firefighter. There was fire in a five-story multiple dwelling on the third floor. The building had two apartments per floor, which are referred to as “railroad flats” because they

  5. Drill: Private Dwelling Fire

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    Mon, 1 Mar 2010

    Unless you have prior knowledge of this building, it is difficult to determine if it is a side-by-side dwelling or it has different dwelling units on different floors. 2) As the engine company driver, you must test and secure a positive water

  6. THE PRIVATE-DWELLING FIRE

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    Sun, 1 Feb 1998

    THE PRIVATE- DWELLING FIRE BY BOB PRESSLER The mark of a well ..... 175-gpm range) needed for private dwelling fires, an attack through the front ..... heavy fire in a 112-story wood-frame dwelling . The fire has possession of most of

  7. FIRE IN A MULTIPLE DWELLING

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    Sun, 1 Aug 2004

    irrespective of the actual facts. What do we see, and what are some of the ways to handle the problems? Fire in this multiple dwelling apparently started on the first floor, front right. There is extension to the second floor by the interior and to the third

  8. A QUANTUM LEAP IN MULTIPLE-DWELLING FIRE SAFETY

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    Sun, 1 Oct 2006

    because “these people do not open windows.” The Statue of Liberty’s “welcome” was not universal. Any multiple dwelling (three or more units) is a tenement under the law, a fact that would shock the occupants of luxury high-rise buildings