Fire and rescue service is one of the fundamental public services provided by government in order to protect people, properties and environment from fires and other disasters, and thus promote a safer living environment. Well understanding spatial-temporal dynamics of fire incidents can offer insights for potential determinants of various fire events and enable better fire risk estimation, assi...

A fire experiment conducted in a British 1950s-style house is described. Measurements of temperature, smoke, CO, CO2 , and O2 were taken in the Lounge, stairwell, and front and back bedrooms. The front bedroom door was wedged open, while the door to the back bedroom was wedged closed. Contrary to expectations and despite the relatively small fire load, analysis and hazard calculations show perm...

One of the major challenges in mega cities is the degree of the preparedness of organizations, institutions and people in facing with critical conditions and their immediate reaction according to pre-defined instructions. Identification of priorities and acting accordingly is an undeniable factor in urban crisis management. The purpose of this research was to identify the priorities of prepared...

DOROTHY ALBRIGHT Fire Response GIS Application Geographic information system (GIS) support for the Incident Command System (ICS) has been evolving over the past several years. The U.S. Forest Service and Firefighting Resources of California Organized for Potential Emergencies (FIRESCOPE) are spearheading an effort to create a standard approach to the problem. The result is an application design...

An enclosed human occupancy chamber is commonly known as hyperbaric chamber system (HCS). The medical treatment to divers suffering from decompression sickness is administered inside a hyperbaric chamber. The hazards inherent inside the chamber include sudden loss of pressure, fire and rapid loss of life-supporting gases. Fire can be catastrophic inside the oxygenenriched confined space of a hy...

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

In this paper we present the results of a study within the CRUISE Network of Excellence. Within CRUISE we have simulated a simple scenario for Wireless Sensor Networks with three different simulation tools: NS-2, OMNeT++ and OPNET. The scenario investigated is that of a fire fighter entering a building and deploying sensor nodes in different rooms. Data collected from the sensor nodes is transm...

e427 All disasters are local, and a burn mass casualty incident (BMCI) is no different. During the past 150 years, burn disasters have typically been associated with three factors: a fire/explosion in a mass gathering, natural disaster, or act of war/terrorism. Although the incidence of fire/explosion disasters has decreased during the past 50 years, recent natural disasters and acts of war/ter...