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Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

What type of construction? You may be surprised. An important feature of a pre-incident plan is the classification of building construction. Classifying the type of building should be simple, quick ...

Multifamily dwellings pose numerous severe risks over and above the single-family residential structural fire, and the outcome largely depends on the initial response, first-arriving decisions and the ...

FRONT. BUT THE FIRE WAS IN THE BACK. ABOUT A 10:45 THURSDAY NIGHT, THE ALARM WENT OFF AT 245 VILLAGE CIRCLE WAY IN MANCHESTER FOR A SECOND ALARM WAS SOUNDED EVEN BEFORE THE COMMANDER GOT TO THE SCENE.