Firefighter Tactics Under Wind Driven Conditions is Available

 

This DVD set includes a video presentation called, Understanding, Surviving, and Fighting Wind Driven Fires, presented by Battalion Chief Jerry Tracy of the Fire Department of New York City, Peter Van Dorpe of the Chicago Fire Department, Stephen Kerber now with Underwriters Laboratories, and Daniel Madrzykowski of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  It provides an overview of the wind driven research that was conducted and portrays it's findings in a very easy to use, and training ready format.  It includes a video overview, The Firefighting Tactics Under Wind Driven Conditions: Seven Story Building Report, The Firefighting Tactics Under Wind Driven Conditions: Laboratory Experiments Report (both are also located here), a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the results, training videos, and video documentation of all of the experiments.

The object of this research was to document the impact of wind on fire spread through a structure and examine the capabilities of positive pressure ventilation (PPV), wind-control devices (WCD), and externally applied water to mitigate the hazard.  This DVD set includes the videos from the 8 lab experiments performed in a simulated apartment at NIST and 14 experiments performed in a 7-story apartment building on Governor's Island, New York.  To request a copy of the dual-disk DVD set please email Dan at madrzy@nist.gov.