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There is a moment in every high-rise fire that changes everything. It happens quietly, beneath the noise of the fireground. A low-air alarm sounds inside a mask. A crew transmits a Mayday. A civilian on the fourteenth floor is still waiting when the interior attack is pulled back. That moment is not an accident. It […]

  The anatomy of the hose stretch, is a critical topic that Jay Bonnifield brings to the forefont.  Bonnifield builds his entire framework around a single organizing principle: protect the ways. The ways are the stairways, hallways, breezeways, and access corridors. They are every path of travel that occupants use to move through and exit […]

The 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 […]

For 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 […]