Fire alarm system

There are two main alarms in the building; one is located on the sales floor and another is located in the stockroom. The store manager said that there was a recent alarm test done and the alarm could be heard from the parking lot outside of the building which means that everyone in the store would be able to make out the sound in the case there was a fire. The sprinkler system covered the entire building, both sales floor and stock room. They also…

Evacuation models and fire codes are written under the assumption that when the fire alarm sounds occupants will immediately exit the structure. But work done by researchers has shown that this is not the case. In fact, there is a behavioral process that transpires repeats before an occupant taking action to exit the structure or stay in place. This process involves four steps that discover, identify, decide, and act upon the cues or the perception of the cues present. Many valuable lessons…

CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871 Chicago was a booming community with some of the finest and most modern building in the country, 59,500 buildings to be exact. Although some of those building were built from stone or brick and proclaimed fireproof. “Chicago was, in fact, a city of wood… The nearby forests of Michigan and Wisconsin made that material both inexpensive and easily obtainable.” Around two- thirds of Chicago’s building and houses were made of flammable wood. On October 8, 1871 a disastrous fire…

numerous fire fatalities increased due to building construction design. To this day building design plays a significant role in the ability of its occupants to exit safely during and emergency. The design of new buildings is influenced as a result of human behaviors during past fire emergency. For many years, engineers and architects have believed that when an alarm sounds occupants will immediately leave the building in an orderly fashion. Under this assumption, the location and quantity of…

extending from the clouds to the ground in a funnel shape. A firenado is a whirlwind Induced by fire that sucks in burning debris and often Combustible gasses like gasoline and natural gasses that fuels the fire. The gasses…

abnormalities to the arsonists have been focused on sexual motivation for firesetting. This psychiatric flaw has been linked to urination, homosexuality and cruelty to animals in the childhoods of firesetters have all been documented. Those who set fires other than for profit are frequently called pyromaniacs. In the first research article, Firesetters Admitted to a Maximum Security Psychiatric Institution published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence in…

in the fire service is having the right skills to do the job. Firefighting is a very dangerous career; not understanding the right skills can lead to severe injury or death. Knowing the right guidelines on building construction…

Gerald Lawrence 12/13/16 The National Fire Protection Association is a United States trade association, albeit with some international members, that creates and maintains private, copyrighted standards and codes for usage and adoption by local governments. It is also know as saving as many lives as possible. NFPA has played a great role in fire preventing for over then 10 years now. Standard 25 is the standard that will be the one that is highlighted in this essay. The NFPA 25 the…

Fire service culture needs to change because too many firefighters are injured or killed because of simple things like not wearing seat belts or not wearing proper protective gear. Firefighters are even defending themselves in court due to cases of harassment or discrimination. It must be possible to change the culture. All of these bad outcomes are preventable, but they need to be made at the department level and not just at an individual level. Those in the fire service or know about it…

shipboard firefighter deals with fires involving ships. They deal with ships that are out in the ocean. They also deal with the port that ships dock on. This firefighter is the least talked about firefighter for this job. The third firefighter is the wildfire firefighter. The wildfire firefighter is talked about but not as much as the structural firefighter. This firefighter does what it sounds like it does. This firefighter puts out fires that happen in forest. They prevent fires in the…