This Guide provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and first responders during a fire. This Guide addresses these topics as part of the overall building design process using performance-based fire protection engineering concepts as described in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance Based Fire Protection. This Guide is not intended to be a recommended practice or a document that is suitable for adoption as a code. The Guide pertains to "super tall," "very tall" and "tall" buildings. Throughout this Guide, all such buildings are called "very tall buildings." These buildings are characterized by heights that impose fire protection challenges; they require special attention beyond the protection features typically provided by traditional fire protection methods. This Guide does not establish a definition of buildings that fall within the scope of this document.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) are pleased to present you with the third edition of Chief Officer: Principles and Practice. The Third Edition addresses both Fire Officer III and Fire Officer IV levels of the 2020 Edition of NFPA 1021: Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications and is designed to help future chief officers as they transition from company officer and become problem-solving leaders for their organization. Good leadership is an essential element in the successful operational management of any organization. Today's chief officers must prepare themselves and the staff they lead to navigate powerful trends-including political, ethical, legal, and sociological-that are likely to shape the fire service, impacting department structures and roles in the community, and altering the demands placed not only on fire service leaders but also on the personnel they lead. The Third Edition features exceptional content to prepare today's fire service leaders to develop the leadership skills necessary to excel in their position and motivate their department members to become an efficient, effective, and safe response force. New to the Third Edition: A section on media relations programs that addresses communication methods, policy development, and crisis management A discussion of department risk management, including the importance of creating a risk management plan, taking an inventory of potential risks faced by department employees, and implementing control measures to correct deficiencies A section on preparing to deal with an active shooter or hostile event situation A discussion of the ways generational differences may influence a department member's workplace expectations and preferences Expanded coverage of diversity policies and practices and consideration of LGBTQ rights to reflect the current workforce Information on long-range planning, including how to create a capital improvement plan and meet training needs The Third Edition features: A clear division of Fire Officer III and IV content After-Action Review sections that include detailed chapter summaries, key terms, and Chief Officer in Action case scenarios designed to reinforce chapter content New Deputy Chief and Fire Chief Activities that encourage students to take what they have learned about the Job Performance Requirements covered in the chapters and apply it to their own departments New case study continued from Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, Fourth Edition that addresses the progression of responsibility from Fire Officer I to Fire Officer IV

Post-earthquake fire is one of the most complicated problems resulting from earthquakes and presents a serious risk to urban structures. Most standards and codes ignore the possibility of post-earthquake fire; thus it is not factored in when determining the ability of buildings to withstand load. This book describes the effects of post-earthquake fire on partially damaged buildings located in seismic urban regions. The book quantifies the level of associated post-earthquake fire effects, and discusses methods for mitigating the risk at both the macro scale and micro scale. The macro scale strategies address urban regions while the micro scale strategies address building structures, covering both existing buildings and those that are yet to be designed.

Identifying Ignitable Liquids in Fire Debris: A Guideline for Forensic Experts discusses and illustrates the characteristics of different ignitable liquid products. This guideline builds on the minimum criteria of the ignitable liquid classes defined in the internationally accepted standard ASTM E1618 Standard Test Method for Ignitable Liquid Residues in Extracts from Fire Debris Samples by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. The volume provides information on the origin of the characteristics of these ignitable liquid products and provides a summary of characteristics to demonstrate a positive identification of the particular product class. Topics such as the term ignitable liquid, relevant guidelines for fire debris analysis, production processes of ignitable liquids, fire debris analysis methods, and interferences in fire debris analysis, are briefly discussed as these topics are essential for the understanding of the identification and classification of ignitable liquid residues in fire debris.

Extensively using experimental and numerical illustrations, Combustion Phenomena: "Selected Mechanisms of Flame Formation, Propagation, and Extinction" provides a comprehensive survey of the fundamental processes of flame formation, propagation, and extinction.

Taking you through the stages of combustion, leading experts visually display, mathematically explain, and clearly theorize on important physical topics of combustion. After a historical introduction to the field, they discuss combustion chemistry, flammability limits, and spark ignition. They also study counterflow twin-flame configuration, flame in a vortex core, the propagation characteristics of edge flames, instabilities, and tulip flames. In addition, the book describes flame extinction in narrow channels, global quenching of premixed flames by turbulence, counterflow premixed flame extinction limits, the interaction of flames with fluids in rotating vessels, and turbulent flames. The final chapter explores diffusion flames as well as combustion in spark- and compression-ignition engines. It also examines the transition from deflagration to detonation, along with the detonation wave structure.

With a CD-ROM of images that beautifully illustrate a range of combustion phenomena, this book facilitates a practical understanding of the processes occurring in the conception, spread, and extinguishment of a flame. It will help you on your way to finding solutions to real issues encountered in transportation, power generation, industrial processes, chemical engineering, and fire and explosion hazards.

This valuable book draws on the author's long and varied experience in combustion technology and contains soundly-based engineering calculations in fire protection engineering based on start-of-the-art methods. This branch of engineering has evolved in order that knowledge in areas including chemistry, physics, structural engineering, mechanical engineering and statistics can be focused on fire safety. This is of especial importance in the operation of facilities such as airports, campuses and shopping malls and also in industrial settings where fire safety is vital due to the major benefits in terms of preservation of life and assets. The topics covered in the book have their basis in thermochemistry and heat transfer and examples covered are wide and include household fires, vehicular fires, extinguishments, calorimetry, and evacuation of persons in a fire and detector systems. The contents of the book have an original slant with many new ideas. However, these have been adapted into calculations, which are ideal for student use, requiring no additional mathematical skills beyond those expected of an engineering or physics student. Each chapter has a short introduction followed by worked examples with information for the calculations being derived from international authoritative publications on fire protection engineering, resulting in a valuable teaching/learning tool.

Chemische Sachverhalte, die in Feuerwehr-Lehrgangen vermittelt werden, sind oftmals isolierte Fakten. In dem Buch werden diese Fakten in ein chemisch-physikalisches Gesamtkonzept eingebunden. Hintergrunde werden beleuchtet, und Zusammenhange koennen erkannt werden. Das Verstandnis insgesamt wird erleichtert, taktische Massnahmen fur den Einsatz werden logisch.

Preparing for class is easy with the resources on the Instructor's ToolKit, including: Adaptable PowerPoint presentations that provide instructors with a powerful way to create presentations that are educational and engaging to their students. These slides can be modified and edited to meet instructors' specific needs. Lecture Outlines that include all of the topics covered in the text. The lecture outlines can be modified and customized to fit any course. Image and Table Bank- Offers a selection of the most important images and tables found in the text. Instructors can use these graphics to incorporate more images into the PowerPoint presentations, make handouts, or enlarge a specific image for further discussion. Detailed lesson plans keyed to the PowerPoint presentations with sample lectures, lesson quizzes, and teaching strategies. Teaching tips and ideas to enhance your presentation. Answers to all end-of-chapter student questions found in the text. In order to meet your course delivery needs, the resources on the Instructor's Tool Kit CD are available for Fire Fighter Level I, Fire Fighter Level II, or Fire Fighter Levels I & II (combined).

For preservation and adaptation of heritage or historic buildings, an understanding of their constructional material properties at elevated temperatures and structural elements fire behavior is required so that they can be demonstrated to possess sufficient fire resistance in their new and current uses. Fire Resistance of Heritage Structures presents systematic information regarding the main materials used in heritage structures (masonry, metals, and timber). Material properties at elevated temperatures, response of structural elements and systems in fire and protection guidelines are presented, including information from historical fire tests. The book provides, in a systematic way, useful information and methodologies required to assess the fire resistance of historical structures. It covers a wide range of historical materials, including cast iron, wrought iron, old steel, masonry (clay masonry units, mortars and types of construction stone) and old timber. Information regarding the post-fire assessment is also provided. This Brief is perfect for practicing fire and structural engineers dealing with conservation projects, as well as students and researchers studying historical structures and their conservation.

The Hazardous Materials Preferred Package is a basic online learning solution for instructors using Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, Fourth Edition. The Hazardous Materials Preferred Package Digital Supplement offers access to a variety of management and assessment tools, including: * Course Management Tools (Course Manager) - a complete online classroom * Navigate TestPrep: Hazardous Materials - a dynamic resource to simulate certification exams * Companion Website for Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, Fourth Edition - chapter pretests and activities at www.fire.jbpub.com/hazmattech The Hazardous Materials Preferred Package allows instructors to give students the tools they need to build a solid, knowledgeable foundation with market-leading content. Cutting-edge digital resources expand upon and reinforce this foundation, creating world-class hazardous materials technicians and incident commanders. Note: In order to access digital resources, a student must be enrolled in a course where the instructor is using the Navigate platform.

The Student Workbook contains exercises to reinforce what you will learn in both the Fire Inspector: Principles and Practice, Revised First Edition textbook and in the classroom. The material in this student workbook covers the 2014 edition of NFPA 1031, Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Inspector and Plan Examiner. The exercises are designed to encourage critical thinking and aid comprehension through a variety of exercises for each chapter, including: * Multiple Choices-Numerous multiple-choice questions prepare you for exams. * Fire Alarms-Scenarios help you develop your decision-making skills by describing emergencies and challenging you to come up with solutions. * Labeling-Cement your knowledge of terminology and spelling with these crossword puzzles. * Fire Inspector II Activities are presented with a 4 color insert to enhance analytical skills. * And more-True/false, vocabulary, matching, short answer, fill-in-the-blank and additional activities! In case you have a question about an exercise, page references to Fire Inspector: Principles and Practice, Revised First Edition are provided for every question in the Student Workbook. All Fire Inspector II questions are delineated for quick reference. Perforated pages make it easier for you to hand in your homework assignments.