Station Nighclub Fire Report

Today’s building construction also lends itself into the deaths of firefighters. We see everyday about building collapsing in on our guys while they are fighting fire. The builders and engineers are always coming up with lighter materials and cheaper ways to make things to save them money on construction to boost their bottom lines with out due regard for safety to others especially firefighters. A light weight wood frame truss will fail under fire conditions in a little as five to eight minutes. Given the time that the fire is discovered and called into dispatch, the time they have to turn the call around and dispatch units, one minute to get enroute, and if they can get on scene within five minutes, another couple of minutes to pull hose lines and enter the building, your are on the threshold of a roof collapse. Then we also put guys on the roof to ventilate thus weakening the roof even more. All this for a house that the insurance company is going to tear down anyway and

Nowadays, it is almost impossible to find a building that does not have exit signs or fire extinguishers in America. Whether in a university or at the work place, exit signs and fire safety instructions can easily be found by anybody. Fire drills are regularly practiced to ensure the least amount of casualty will occur if something goes wrong. However, a hundred years ago safety issues were barely taken into considerations and safety regulations were most of the time inexistent, as illustrates the terrible fire that happened a hundred years ago at the Triangle

This commission helped usher in much needed changes on the labor side, which after a few years developed into the New York State Department of Labor (aflcio.org, 2017). The fire also helped fire departments not only in New York City, but all over the Nation at that time, make changes to how they operate. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), which was founded in eighteen ninety-six, declared at its annual meeting right after the fire, to all departments nation-wide, how important fire-drills were to life safety (Teague & Farr, 2009). A few years later the NFPA formed the Committee on Safety to Life to help with fire codes, regulations and departments. Several years after its development, they adopted revised specifications to fire escapes, and worked on specific regulations to exits to buildings and the Building Exit Codes (Teague & Farr, 2009). All of their work helped bring items like fire drills, egress from buildings, sprinklers, fire escapes, and other building code changes. Fire Departments all over the Nation were also helped and their eagerness to improve and update their equipment to meet the needs of a changing, and more industrialized and upward-bound Nation took full effect. Improved safety nets, ladders and equipment to reach taller buildings, more water access points and better personal safety equipment were all a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the efforts of the

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 was one of the most lethal workplace tragedies in American history. 141 young women died that day, because of their unsafe work conditions. If they had fire extinguishers and a sprinkler system, or even just a better fire escape, no one would’ve had to die. The girls did not have access to these things however, because they were not required by law.

March 25, 1911 about 145 people were killed due to a tragic fire. The fire was called the Triangle Factory, it was one of the largest disaster in New York before 9/11. Before the fire there weren’t many rules that aided in the prevention of massive fires, and a lot of people died because of that. Since the fire new labor laws and fire safety laws.

| |contractors/builders carrying out work on the premises. This is the main legislative framework that|

Three stories of a ten-floor building a the corner of Greens Street and Washington Place were burned yesterday, and while the fire was going on 141 young men and women at least 125 of them mere girls were burned to death or killed by jumping to the pavement below. The building was fireproof. The fire except the furniture and 141 of the 600 men and girls that were employed in its upper three stories. The victims were suffocated or burned to death within the building, but some who found their way to the windows and leaped met death as surely, but perhaps more quickly, on the pavements below.

After events such as Chicago Fire 1871, San Francisco Earthquake and fire of 1906, and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911 which had many deaths at each one, there was a change in codes that became more rigorous in preventing deaths and injuries in fire emergencies. Then Johnson states that John H. Lienhard the University of Houston’s College of Engineering says that mid nineteenth century buildings were not originally built for fire safety. It wasn’t until after tragic events happened that led to fire escape, fire escapes and fire safety in general. Then in 1968, New York banned all exterior fire escapes for new building projects because interior stairwells were considered safer. Then Johnson brings up Vincent J. Dunn who is a retired deputy chief with New York’s fire department. Dunn notes that there are only 200,000 fire escapes that remain in the city. Because of age and poor maintence, fire escapes susceptible to rust, corrosion and collapse. Even with fire escapes being banned or no longer mandated in new construction, they still exist as secondary emergency exits in historic

Newman, Michael E. "Final NIST Rhode Island Nightclub Fire Report Urges Strict Adherence to and Strengthening of Current Model Safety Codes." NIST. 29 June 2005. Web. 4 Nov. 2014.

In mans history we have seen many great fires from the 1860 Elm Street Tenement in New York City that killed 200 that resulted in a requirement for fire escapes in buildings over 6 stories and multiple exits in new building to the 2003 Station Nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island that killed 100, making NFPA later adopted a new standard for nightclubs to be sprinkled with 50 or more occupants.

On 05/05/2018 at approximately 2121 hours the Merced City fire department responded to a residential structure fire at 456 Brimmer Road, Merced, CA 95341. Fire department personnel arrived on scene and discovered the rear side of the residence was engulfed flames. In the course of attempting to control the fire, firefighters were able to see grow lights and marijuana in the rooms of the residence. The fire department contacted the Merced Police Department to investigate. Merced Police Officers contacted the Merced Area Gang and Narcotic Enforcement Team (M.A.G.N.E.T.) Sergeant Rodney Court.

On the afternoon of May 31, 2013, units from the Houston Fire Department responded to a commercial structure fire located at the restaurant attached to the Southwest Inn at 6855 South West Freeway. While en-route to the location, HF E51 notified the alarm center that a large column of smoke was visible. The responding district chief requested a higher alarm at this point based on E51’s pre-arrival report. E51 arrived on the scene approximately 3 ½ minutes and reported that they had a single story restaurant with heavy smoke showing from the attic to the OEC (Office of Emergency Communications). E51 proceeded with an offensive attack, including the use of a 2 ½ inch hand line on the Alpha side/division of the structure.

If one of the people from the design team fails to follow a building code local officials can suspend the construction or charge the company for not following the required minimum for the building. It's the best interest of the architect, engineer or general contractor to stay up today with building codes and don't interpret the codes in a wrong

New Technology: Fire safety codes are designed with current fire alarms and fire suppression technologies

In order to evaluate common fire hazards within a building and the risks presented by these, it is essential to have an understanding of where fires start, and what causes them in varying occupancy types. The best process to fulfil this aim is to review existing statistical data. Existing data is a vital tool in analysing areas or functions of a building which have the greatest risk to occupants. In particular, those functions or areas of a building having higher fatality rates historically in buildings of a similar type should be treated with special consideration (i.e. Class 2, Kitchen). It is important to be familiar with these statistics as they play a key role in predicting outcomes of future fires. Using this knowledge, fire safety engineers can identify patterns and high risk factors; and apply appropriate building fire safety systems in an attempt to reduce fire