arringnl
32 Years Experience
Goose Creek, SC
Male, 54
Currently serving Jasper County Fire Rescue in south Carolina along with Charleston County EMS.
By modern standards that would be a yes to it being a fire hazard.
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True along with birds, lizards.
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Monitor the expiration date is the best way.
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Many things from burn patterns forming v starting at the point of orign. We also use tools from machines that detect accellerants to K9 smelling out for accellerants.
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Correctional Officer
Were there a lot of suicides in your prison, and what's the most common way prisoners do it?
Private Detective
What's the best Sherlock-Holmes-worthy detective work you've ever done?
Bracketologist
Why have there been so many 15-2 upsets, but no 16-1's?
Fire burn faster and tactics have to change with these materials. We used to have about 30 minutes on a structure to get it out but now it is more like 15-20. Fire are burning faster and hotter and we are dealing with more deadly smoke which has increased levels of Hydrogen Cyanide for instance. Beside that we are dealing with Truss Construction and gusset plates that are only stuck into a quarter inch of the wood and it does not take long for these to deteriorate and have collapses.
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Each state has set training requirements most the same but some more in depth. It depends per state some training can be initially in house with testing done at a academy.
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No, believe it or not they sell them at the FDNY store in New York not to far from Time Square.
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