High-Rise Fires and Emergencies
2 Hour Program
This course goes beyond just highrise fires, with less time devoted to the obvious building construction and incident command, the course will focus on the following:
- wind-driven fires
- elevator operations
- size up
- residential vs commercial strategy and tactics
- ventilation
- search and evacuation
- roof operations
- attached occupanices
- adjacent properties
- underground parking areas
- utility penthouses
- air handlers
- storage areas
- methane
- propane and CO releases
- stack effect
- fires in the subdivision
This course prepares the new firefighter and company officer to mitigate various incidents involving a highrise building. Additional UL studies, NIST and LODD case studies will be reviewed and discussed.
Instructor
Captain Brian Butler
Brian Butler is a fire Captain and 22 year veteran of the fire service currently assigned to Engine Co 10 in downtown Trenton (NJ). He is also a member of the King of Prussia PA Fire Rescue in suburban Philadelphia. Butler serves as a rescue technician and hazmat technician with the Southeastern PA (Montgomery County) Technical Rescue Task Force and Hazmat Response Team and is a level 2 fire instructor. He is the owner of HERCULES fire training, and a contributor author at Firehouse, Fire Engineering, and UrbanFireTraining.com.