Due to differences in governance structure, training, applicable polices, legal requirements and culture, the nature of operations vary based on agency, county, population, leadership, etc. This leads to serious challenges during multi-agency response to emergencies. The different agencies are required to work together to effectively and efficiently respond to an emergency incident. The paper c...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of applying methods andamount of ammonium polyphosphate (0, 2 and 4 wt%) on fire retardancy andmechanical properties of wood flour/polypropylene composites. the resultsshowed that addition of fire retardant improved the mechanical properties such astensile and flexural strengths and fire retardancy of composites. but by increasingof fire retar...

4.1 Introduction Crisis management teams (e.g. fire and rescue services, anti-terrorist units ...) are often confronted with dramatic situations where critical decisions have to be made within hard time constraints. In these circumstances, a complete overview of the crisis site is necessary to take correct decisions. However, obtaining such a complete overview of a complex site is not possible ...

We present here a narrative of an incident that occurred in chemistry laboratory while purifying benzene using distillation apparatus. The resulted injury to graduate student and fire caused approximately $3.5 million damage including repair/refurbishment costs. Unfortunately, due the extent fire, direct cause could not be determined. lessons learned from this have potentially prevented altoget...

On November 5, 2009, an individual entered the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Processing (SRP) site and opened fire with a handgun. The result of the shooting was a total of 13 people killed and 31 wounded. A two-person critical incident peer support (CIPS) team from the United States Army Military Police School (USAMPS) provided critical incident stress management (CISM) in the forms of critical ...

Abstract Building fires are sometimes unavoidable due to unexpected accidents. During the fire, structural elements exposed temperatures above 1000 °C. Structural concrete loses its strength and stiffness during heating cooling cycle. In most cases, a real cooled by water quenching. It is rare scenario that, buildings subjected fire natural air without forced spraying. However, concrete’s resid...

In this study, the authors developed a fire safety management system model for critical risk factor assessment in construction sites according to National Fire Protection Association code Safety Concepts Tree (FSCT). First, statistics and heavy casualties were analyzed, factors as associated with key causes of incident break out life-threatening damages derived. Furthermore, related laws regula...