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Fire Fighter Killed by Exterior Wall Collapse during Defensive Operations at a Commercial Structure
May 24, 2012 | Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Collapse, construction, fire behavior, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting-operations, in-the-line-of-duty, LODD, Multipl Alarm, NIOSH, ordinary, size-up, structure fires | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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NIOSH Report highlights collapse considerations during defensive operations that contributed to FF LODD

More Building Details from the Emmitsburgs Fire
April 4, 2010 | building construction, construction, fire suppression, firefighting-operations, Multipl Alarm, NETC, NFA | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Here’s some details on the incident and the building profile from our good friend Wayne Powell with the Vigilant Hose Company of Emmitsburg and a long time former staff member of the National Fire Academy. The excerpt that was posted on Dave’s STATter911 blog:  Fire units were alerted at 0559 hours to a reported building […]