When the Air Runs Out: Buildings, Bottle Brigades, and the Worst Day of a Civilian’s Life Somewhere in your city, there is a building someone is sleeping in tonight. It could be a 22-story residential tower, a 900,000-square-foot distribution warehouse, or a big-box retail center the size of four city blocks laid on its side. […]
Read MoreThe Duty to Foresee and the Cornerstone of Negligence The built environment is changing faster than fire codes are keeping up. Across the country, high-rise residential and mixed-use towers are reshaping city skylines. Distribution centers exceeding one million square feet are being permitted and built at a pace never seen before. Data centers, massive, densely […]
Read MoreFor the third consecutive year, the Firefighter Air Coalition has authored the FDIC Supplement — this year titled Fire in the Sky — placing it in the hands of tens of thousands of fire service professionals at the world’s largest gathering of firefighters and fire instructors. That is not an accident. As FAC President Mike […]
Read MoreWhen Albuquerque Fire Rescue set out to rebuild its high-rise SOG, the department faced a choice that every fire service leader eventually confronts: do the work yourself, or trust your people to do it better. Deputy Chief Clint Anderson chose the latter — and the result was one of the most operationally rigorous high-rise programs […]
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