The world of a modern-day engineer has changed, and many of us are struggling to keep up. Fires that used to go out relatively easily are now challenging us more than ever. The fuels involved in ...

The object of firefighting has always been to put out fire, in a timely fashion, limiting damage from the fire and our suppression efforts. What has snuck up on us as an industry is that our structure ...

Many researchers and subject matter experts (SMEs) agree that 1¾-inch interior handline flows should be between 150–160 gpm. The NFPA included a similar recommendation in NFPA 1710: Standard for the ...

Fireground size-up factors can have varying degrees of impact on a fire. Life safety is always the most important, but achieving all of our incident priorities is highly dependent on many factors: • ...