NIST and UL Release a Video Lecture Series

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UL FSRI Director Steve Kerber, NIST Fire Protection Engineer Dan Madrzykowski and Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief of Training Derek Alkonis team up to present a 7 part video lecture series titled “NIST and UL Research on Fire Behavior & Fireground Tactics.” The presentations were filmed at the 2013 IAFF Redmond Symposium and the slides and videos have been integrated into the presentations for a better learning experience.

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Modern Fire Environment
Part 3: Fire Dynamics
Part 4: Case Studies
Part 5: Fire Behavior Training
Part 6: Live Fire Experiments
Part 7: Organizational Change

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UL FSRI Advisory Board Member and Cobb County Fire & Emergency Services Captain Sean Gray has been helping to facilitate the relationship between their fire department and the local school system to teach basic fire dynamics and fire science through UL Xplorlabs within the middle school classroom. Check out this segment on Atlanta’s CW to learn more! ... See MoreSee Less

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Dr. Sally Creel and Sean Gray recently sat down with Atlanta's CW to give educators an in-depth look at how ULXplorlabs modules are changing the curriculum for Cobb County Schools to ignite passion and excitement for real-world engineering in the classroom. “The cool part about it is that we see the teachers are just as excited as the kids doing [the modules],” Dr. Creel explains: bit.ly/2YQxKXL

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Today’s #TacticalTuesday featuring UL FSRI Director, Steve Kerber, focuses on how fire development changes when a fire becomes ventilation limited.

One of the first things every firefighter learns about fire is the fire triangle. Fire needs fuel, heat and oxygen to survive. Fire growth is definitely related to the amount of fuel and heat that is available, but it is the amount of oxygen that is making the difference in how fast the fire is allowed to release heat. Control the oxygen, and you have control of the fire.

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Tactical Considerations: Fire Development Changes When a Fire Becomes Ventilation Limited

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David Maeker different take on fire growth in relation to oxygen. Great stuff.

So have there been any studies to see the measured amount of O2 a fire consumes in a given time? For instance in the video you show the “study” house closed up and basically have nothing showing. The time measured O2 consumption of a structure?

Great explanation of fire growth to the new guys. Ventilation and fire attack go hand in hand. You manage both the fire will go out.

Now you are putting out extremely useful information. But there is more that needs to be done showing how surfactants and bubbles work to change the way water behaves when applied to the fuel rich and oxygen limited fire. Absorb the fuel into the bubbles of surface active agents and cool the heat.

When I was a fireman, I was amazed by how fast high-pressure fog will knock down a fire while shielding the user from extreme heat.

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Bekah Schrader, University of Maryland Department of Fire Protection Engineering student, spent her summer with us as a UL FSRI Research Intern. Read her story and see how this experience is helping to shape her future career path.

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Bekah Schrader discusses her path from Michigan to FSRI

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Next year please look at how a good CAFS can be used clear the air of heat AND carcinogens in the smoke without ventilation feeding the fire oxygen. It is so much more important than studying how to squirt water at a fire.

It is important that the firefighters understand how a tiny bubble works to extinguish fires. Consider how much heat a gallon of water can absorb before boiling into steam. The gallon of water must absorb enough heat to reach 212 degrees farenhieght. Have you ever tried to boil a gallon of water. It would take a very long time if you placed the gallon into a hot oven such as a house fire. Now consider if the gallon of water was stretched into a million tiny bubbles that exposed a much larger surface area to the heat, that would take much lest time to absorb enough heat to reach the boiling temperature. Then the gallon of water expands into 1,700 times its original volume in the form of steam that displaces oxygen and dilutes fire gases. Now then when the heat has been absorbed and the fire gases have been diluted the fire goes out and the steam begins to cool and condense back into liquid form and the heat and fire gases contract back to original volume. Now here is when the surfactants come into play, the bubbles stay where you put them and don't run off like water does. The surfactant causes the bubbles to share the water with the surfaces they are on and anything that is wet can not get hotter than 212.f and that is not hot enough to cause any more fire or smoke. So I believe that when fire fighters understand how CAFS foam works to put more fire out faster and requires much less water it will make their job much less difficult and much safer for them and for the citizens they are working to save lives and property.

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