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Saving the lives of life savers

This year, people across the U.S. watched as destructive wildfires raged across California, Oregon, and Washington, and as the thousands of firefighters...

Novel Online Training for Firefighters Beats Back Residential Fires and Cardiovascular Risk

Firefighting isn’t what it used to be. Whether it’s a complex blaze raging in an urban high-rise or a seemingly straightforward single-level home fire, modern building construction and furnishings have made...

ALIVE training tool is a Game Changer

"Engine 1 on scene; two-story, single-family residence; light smoke showing.” Is this “light smoke” an indicator of a small incipient fire or perhaps a potentially lethal ventilation-limited fire, fueled by modern synthetics...

Learning to fight the modern fire in a modern way

Until this week, revolutionary firefighting research faced a hurdle higher than the scientific discoveries themselves: How to inform the nation's 1.1 million firefighters...

Wind, fire & high-rises: firefighters & engineers conduct research to combat a lethal threat

In December 1998, three New York City firefighters were making their way along a corridor to reach a burning apartment on the top floor of a Brooklyn...

Fire officials tackle challenges of high-rise blazes

In the smoky caldron of a high-rise fire, it is the firefighter's worst nightmare: a door left ajar, a window that suddenly breaks under intense heat and a blast of wind...

Research leads to new FDNY firefighting procedures

As 30 mph winds feeding a fire in a Manhattan high-rise apartment building threatened to create the unpredictable, fast-moving blowtorch effect that has killed far too many members...

James J. Johnston Memorial medal to FDNY's wind-driven fire project team

The above-listed FDNY members were the core group of people who worked on the Fireproof Multiple Dwelling Wind-Driven Fire Project...

Life-saving NYU-Poly research presented at FDNY symposium

Chief officers from the Fire Department of New York presented potentially life-saving research results at a symposium based on a study Polytechnic Institute of NYU...

Poly teams up with FDNY to fight fire with engineering

While soaring flames and dark clouds of smoke rushed out the windows of a seven-story building on Governors Island on Monday, February 25, video cameras recorded...

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