This 4 day rope access training is for SPRAT Certification Levels and concluded by 1 day with SPRAT Evaluator. One level taught per course. These courses teach workers how to safely access structures using two-rope systems, as well as advanced techniques of structural progression and rescue.
This is a hands-on course involving a variety of survival and rescue techniques with the purpose of increasing situational awareness and enhancing fire-ground survival for victims and firefighters. Course objectives include equipment knowledge, breathing techniques, size-ups (Outside/Inside), TIC work, ladder work, search, packaging, bailouts and air consumption.
This course will include both classroom and field training that will help students understand the safety procedures, regulations, equipment, and techniques that are essential to operating safely at the scene of a confined space emergency.
Confined space rescues can be technically challenging due to the environment in which they occur. This unique program stresses teamwork and covers the responsibility to identify a confined space and be familiar with various regulations, safety procedures, equipment, operations level techniques and personnel necessary to operate at a confined space emergency. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a FLUSAR certificate for Confined Space Technician Level.
The Structural Collapse Technician course is a competency-based program designed to meet the requirements of NFPA 1670 and is FLUSAR training compliant. The hands-on portion teaches students how to safely and efficiently operate at the collapse site of a wood-framed/concrete block structure and offers practice in breaching, bracing, search of collapse structures and void spaces, construction of shoring and victim removal.
At the completion of this training, the student should be capable of hazard recognition, equipment uses and techniques necessary to operate and supervise a rope rescue incident. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a FLUSAR certificate for Rope Rescue Technician Level.
This 16-hour training program is designed for all emergency response personnel and excavation underground utility workers. This course is the most advanced level of training outlined in the NFPA 1670 and 1006 Standards. The course is designed for emergency rescue personnel responsible for rescue and recovery operations in more complex environments. Students will work in intersecting "T" and "L" trenches as well as trenches greater than 8 feet in depth. This course meets or exceeds the general requirements of NFPA 1670. This is a physical and mentally demanding program that emphasizes scene management, safety and teamwork. Performance of all required practical skills as outlined in NFPA 1006 are necessary in order to receive a certificate.
This course works with the knowledge provided in the hydraulics course and applies the formulas into the application of operating a fire engine at an emergency scene. Each student will drive the fire engine through a designed course and receive the Emergency Vehicle Operators course during this course. The students will all operate a fire engine and will operate a fire engine with water flowing from the unit. The course also teaches the students appropriate fire ground operations so the students will know how to operate a fire engine as well as the equipment carried on the engine.
This 40-hour course is an intensive hands-on skills development program designed to provide the fire service driver/engineer additional skills in preparation for the NFPA1002, Standard for Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications; aerial tactics, placement, stabilization, operation, and construction. Upon successful completion, a certificate for Aerial Apparatus Operator will be awarded.
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The Fire Research Division develops and maintains a set of computational tools to analyze fire behavior. These tools include the Consolidated Fire and Smoke Transport (CFAST) zone model, the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) computational fluid dynamics model, and Smokeview, which visualizes output from both CFAST and FDS. This research will extend the capabilities of these models, as well as improve their accuracy and reliability. More specifically, we will improve the prediction of burning rates for liquids and solid fuels in FDS. We will improve the prediction of toxic emissions (like carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and soot) and flame suppression in under-ventilated fires where toxic emissions are prevalent. We will also develop the capability within FDS to handle curvilinear flow obstructions. This will improve our ability to model flame spread and wind fields over complex surfaces (including wildland terrain and urban canopies). The ability to model complex geometry will also facilitate more accurate two-way coupling between FDS and finite-element models used for analysis of steel-constructed buildings. Our research includes work on modeling outdoor flows at the community scale; applications include the following: natural gas leak dispersion and inverse modeling, clean-up of marine oil spills, and flame spread at the wildland-urban interface (WUI).
The development first of zone fire models, like the Consolidated Fire and Smoke Transport model (CFAST), and then high-fidelity, physics-based fire models, like the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), has been driven by a need to better understand compartment fire dynamics for the purpose of protecting lives and property. CFAST and FDS continue to play a key role in performance-based design of buildings, saving billions of dollars annually in fire protection costs [1]. Consequently, these modeling capabilities must be maintained, with the simulation tools evolving to keep pace with changes in computing technology. At the same time, advanced fire models like FDS are facing new challenges.
Starting with the World Trade Center investigation [2], and later the investigations of the Charleston Sofa Super Store [3] and the Rhode Island Station Night Club [4] fires, the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator has been used to reconstruct flame spread behavior and tenability conditions in burning structures. To date, investigators have relied heavily on full-scale testing to generate realistic heat release rate curves to be used in the model. But full-scale tests are both extremely expensive and sometimes simply impossible to perform for the desired conditions (consider zero gravity conditions in space, for example). Improving accuracy and reducing uncertainty in forensic analyses, therefore, requires an ability to predict large-scale heat release rates.
Improving reliability will require advancements in the prediction of local heat feedback to the surface of the solid, which is generally controlled by radiation. And since radiation is largely controlled by local soot concentration and temperature, we will require improvements to local soot emissions prediction. In the solid phase we will require improvements to our ability to measure the appropriate material thermal and kinetics properties. We will also require improvements to our ability to account for the complexity of material geometry. For example, fire resistant coatings often intumesce, or swell, as a way of slowing the heat transfer to the burning solid. Additional complexities in the solid phase include melting, which can form secondary pool fires, and volatile transport in porous media. Neither of these phenomena are present in the current FDS solid phase model.
Modeling flame spread in wildland fires and WUI fires must also involve the modeling of ember transport. It has been well-documented [7] that spot fires from embers are a dominate flame spread mechanism in wildfires. Further, WUI fires may spread by embers that come from burning homes as well as vegetation. FDS has the capability to transport embers as Lagrangian particles. These particles obey specified drag and heat transfer laws and may be linked to material properties that allow the embers to burn as they are transported. The primary research focus from a modeling point of view is verification and validation of the current modeling capabilities.
The immediate research need is to establish a baseline set of validation cases for the spread of fire over PMMA and similar polymers, pulling from experiments in the existing literature [8]. It has been demonstrated that FDS is capable of predicting the burning rate of these materials in devices such as the cone calorimeter.
In parallel with work to characterize complex solids is work to improve the prediction of radiation heat flux from fires impinging on surfaces. There are several examples of these fire scenarios in the current validation guide, but the accuracy of the model depends on a variety of factors, including the geometry, fuel type, and radiative properties of the fuel and exhaust products.
In an effort to help fire fighter training and to gain insights into evacuation and compartment fire phenomena, we have begun work on 3D visualization of fire within Smokeview. At present, 3D videos may be generated from a single viewpoint within an FDS simulation domain. In the future, we will add the capability to view 3D video from a tour within Smokeview. The next step for full virtual reality (VR) with real fire physics would be to allow real-time translation of the viewpoint position controlled by the VR headset movement. And the final step would be to couple with an interactive fire scene, where, for example, the user could open a door or window, or throw water on the fire. The first step is underway, and we are looking toward a collaboration with the VR group at NIST in Boulder, CO, to finalize this phase of the project. The next two steps (tours and translation) are a two-year effort. And the final step would be a three-year project on its own, as it would require significant research on the FDS modeling side to provide real-time simulation updates.
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