The purpose of this bulletin is to clarify some terminology and procedures   By Bill Gustin, Fire Engineering A high-rise assignment is dispatched for “smell of smoke” at 0400 hours at an old, non-sprinklered condominium building. Like many of these ...

Speeding up actions after Grenfell Tower tragedy     By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday vowed to speed up efforts to make sure the dangerous cladding used in the Grenfell Tower is ...

Fire in apartment 8B in a 15-story dwelling   THEMAJESTIRIUM1 – Here you will see the FDNY responding to and on the scene operating at a quickly knocked down 10-77 high-rise fire on Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side ...

Training completed after deadly Marco Polo high-rise fire     Gina Mangieri, KHON 2 HONOLULU (KHON2) — It’s been two years since the Marco Polo blaze killed four people, and the Honolulu Fire Department is just wrapping up new high-rise ...

London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton, manager of the tragic high-rise fire   Sky News – The final week of evidence continues from London Fire Brigade. This includes firefighters who undertook active firefighting, control room staff and commanders who were ...

London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton on the tragic high-rise fire     Channel 4 News – Dany Cotton, head of the London Fire Brigade, told the Grenfell Tower Inquiry today that as soon as she arrived at the fire ...

Building resilience in your communication systems     (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Thomas Terndrup, The Ohio State University and Nicholas Kman, The Ohio State University (THE CONVERSATION) “The ...

Fire commission questions incident command     HONOLULU (KHON) – Residents trapped. Instructions to stay on a balcony. Falling debris causing more fire. A firefighter mayday call. The panic, stress, and heroism on the day of Honolulu’s biggest fire in ...

In an unconfirmed high-rise incident, a minimum of three chief officers must be dispatched as part of the first-alarm assignment.

A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy took time to create a video walking you through the “Firefighter Mode” setting on elevators.  It is vital in any high-rise event that firefighters have control of elevators and keep control until the end of ...