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Colerain and Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today
April 4, 2013 | "firefighter safety", assemblies, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Collapse, Combat Fire Engagement, construction, Deployment, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting, firefighting-operations, first-due, floors, in-the-line-of-duty, LODD, major-incidents, Mayday, NIOSH, RIT, Safety, size-up, strategies, structure fires | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today

Mayday and Rapid Intervention Realities: The Phoenix Perspective
March 14, 2013 | "firefighter safety", "Situational Awareness" assessment, Building Construction for the Fire Srvice, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, Deployment, fire behavior, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting-operations, LODD, RIT, Uncategorized | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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On March 14, 2001 the Phoenix (AZ) Fire Department lost firefighter Brett Tarver at the Southwest Supermarket fire. Remembering Brett Tarver and the Lessons Learned In that event, it was 5:00 in the afternoon, the grocery store was full of people and fire was extending through the building. Phoenix E14 was assigned to the interior […]

NIOSH Findings Reported on Bridgeport (CT) Double LODD Fire; Failed to Respond to Maydays
June 30, 2011 | "firefighter safety", "Situational Awareness" assessment, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, command-leadership, construction, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighting-operations, in-the-line-of-duty, line-of-duty, LODD, Mayday, Naum, NIOSH, residential, RIT | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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Bridgeport (CT) fire officials’ failure on nearly ever level led to the line-of-duty deaths of two firefighters battling a fire in a residential occupancy in Bridgeport, CT on July 24, 2010.

Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week 2011, Day Seven; Fire Fighter, Fire Officer and Command Training and Preparedness
June 24, 2011 | "firefighter safety", "pre-fire planning", "Safety Week", "Situational Awareness" assessment, building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildings, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, close-call, Combat Fire Engagement, FDNY, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighting, firefighting-operations, line-of-duty, Mayday, RIT | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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As the official Fire/EMS Safety Week 2011 begins to wind down, in many stations around the country this weekend is dedicated to training, drills and evolutions dedicated toward the many facets and functional elements…

Double Mayday Deployments at Three Alarm FDNY Fire
April 10, 2011 | Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, close-call, Combat Fire Engagement, failures, FDNY, firefighting-operations, Naum, RIT | Christopher Naum | No Comments
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2 Firefighters Escape Close Call in Belle Harbor: MyFoxNY.com Published reports from various NYC eMedia outlets indicated that two FDNY firefighters battling a three-alarm fire on Saturday April 9th in the Rockaways section of the Borough of Queens (NY) transmitted Maydays signals during fire suppression operations after a fire officer was partially trapped in a compromised  floor […]

FDNY Deutsche Bank Building LODD Fire Report issued by NIOSH
August 13, 2010 | "firefighter safety", building construction, Building Construction for the Fire Service, buildingsonfire.com, Christopher Naum, construction, Deconstruction, dynamics, Fatalities, FDNY, fire behavior, fire suppression, firefighting-operations, hazards, hazmat, high-rise, Highrise, LODD, Mayday, NIOSH, risk-based assessment, RIT, size-up, standpipe, Trapped, Uncategorized | Christopher Naum | 1 Comment
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The NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has released the investigation report of the line of duty deaths of two career FDNY  firefighters during a 2007 seven-alarm high-rise fire in the former Deutsche Bank building undergoing deconstruction and asbestos abatement. On August 18, 2007,  two FDNY firefighters; Fr. Joseph Graffagnino and Fr. Robert Beddia both assigned […]