Back to Basics: A Fundamental Understanding of Fire and Fire Dynamics (Part 2)

As a continuation to our study on Fire Dynamics, this week we share videos covering why water is awesome, and we dive deeper into flashover. Water is our best friend, and controlling ventilation is a strategy we must keep at the forefront of our minds!

6Reminder: Control one part of the fire tetrahedron and control the fire. Asking on scene units to close doors at building fires slows down fire growth and allows us to be ready prior to making an attack. This saves lives by slowing thermal spread throughout the space and giving firefighters time to lay and charge attack lines.

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Why water is awesome

An Introduction to Flashover

Flashover as described by Mike Pertz

Flashover Illustrations by NIST

Another great Illustration of a flashover

Ventilation Induced Flashover

FOR SOME IN DEPTH STUDY INTO MORE FIRE DYNAMICS, GO TO TRAINING.FSRI.ORG/EXPLORE

There are 38 video training sessions listed here after you create a free training account. We will post some information from FSRI.ORG in future posts, but you can jump ahead if you'd like.

BE ELITE.

End of Back to Basics: A Fundamental Understanding of Fire and Fire Dynamics (Part 2).