Recent content by Lucas

Last year NIST published the so-called "Research Roadmap for Smart Fire Fighting": http://www.nist.gov/el/fire_research/201506_smart_fire_roadmap.cfm Direct link to the pdf is here: http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1191 The document is nearly 250 pages long, so I haven't read it but skimming...

There were two nearly simultaneous explosions outside the train station, believed to be a terrorist attack. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/10/us-turkey-explosion-idUSKCN0S407020151010

The Plan is here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/ofc/FDNY_strategic_plan_2015_2017.pdf Some interesting things: Objective 1.4: All that monstrosities along the 57th street (One57, Park Ave 432, Nordstrom, etc.) have to be protected... somehow. That truly is a challenge. Objective 2.3...

Nearly all NYC firehouses had been built before seismic provisions were included in the Building Code in the 1996. Are the firehouses being upgraded to the Code? Is the seismic retrofitting done during renovations? According to NYC Hazard Mitigation Plan critical facilities are supposed to...

San Francisco firefighter talking about his struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Injury and how he overcame it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXxpZ0Eb6xc

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/10/us-usa-nuclearplant-incident-idUSKBN0NU0RN20150510 Transformer fire extinguished by sprinklers and personnel at the scene, no damage to the reactors.

And that's some BS. So if the firefighters are not responding to a crash they're just wasting time? Training is just "not a whole lot to do"? How about equipment checks? Inspection of the airport infrastructure? Calls that are not crashes or other serious incidents -- oh, they're not "real"...

Hi, I recently learned that FDNY equipment includes robot. Apparently, it's made for search and HazMat duties. Does anyone know if that robot has been already deployed to any incident? http://www.superdroidrobots.com/shop/custom.aspx/fdny-custom-built-lt-f-robot/71/...