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Buffalo Box 191 North Division & Grosvenor Streets; December 27, 1983
Buffalo Box 191 December 27, 1983 Buffalo, New York Five Firefighter Line-of-Duty Deaths As Buffalo (NY) firefighters arrived at the scene of a reported propane leak in a three-story radiator warehouse...
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Engineered Structural Systems- Hazards
CNN recently presented an informative piece on the continuing trends in the design and use of engineered structural systems (ESS) . CNN correspondant Gerri Willis provides an informative andÂ...
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Building Behaving Badly
Buildings Behaving Badly; Ok, it’s been a very quiet morning. Nothing much in the way of any work or excitment. The bells come in….Your company gets a dispatch for a report of walls showing signs of...
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FDNY Deutsche Bank Building LODD Fire Report issued by NIOSH
The NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has released the investigation report of the line of duty deaths of two career FDNY  firefighters during a 2007 seven-alarm...
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Identifying, Establishing and Managing Collapse Zones
Vacant Structure Fire-Three Alarm, Type III Construction Identifying, Establishing and Managing Collapse Zones I mentioned in a recent post about on-going research and recommendations being developed...
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The Bowstring Truss
The Bow String Truss The Bowstring Truss: ThereÂ’s a tremendous lack of understanding in the American Fire Service as to what accurately defines and comprises a Heavy Timber Bowstring Truss and the...
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