Building Construction Question

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Permalink Reply by Marques Bush on June 11, 2009 at 9:22pm

Wow guys thanks a lot. This is absolutely why I love this site. Keep it coming brothers I'm trying to take it all in. Thanks again Brothers.

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Permalink Reply by Marques Bush on June 11, 2009 at 9:23pm

Frank I'm trying. People are leaving in things now that should be condemned.

Frank Ricci said:

Get a vacant, and tear it apart, besides being educational its fun! As Brent said go out an preplan.

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Permalink Reply by Art Zern on June 12, 2009 at 5:49pm

I'm with Frank. I would take it a step further, just to slow things down a bit and force the members to get down to the small features. Make or have someone make a steel ring about 12" in diameter. When the members tear the building apart, tell them that everything taken from the building has to go through the ring. This really slows the process down and forces them to examine how it comes apart and therefore, how it went together. The ring is a multi-purpose tool, use it for extrication training as well. Have the members pass everything from the car through the ring.....same idea, it forces a closer examination of the construction. It becomes a challenge to see how small of a pile is left that won't go through the ring.

Keep The Faith,

Art

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Permalink Reply by Marty Mayes on June 12, 2009 at 9:22pm

Marques,

One of the ideas I put in place for guys is, Habitat for Humanity. We take on a house once or twice a year and build it. It serves to satisfy several training objectives I am looking for, including building construction. Granted it really only covers the most basic of construction types but that is my stations bread and butter call anyway.But couple that with the normal training on BC it really seems to help it click,as you put it. Another thing I do when I teach BC is I show how fire will act and move within each type of construction. So I dive heavy into tactics as we move along, it seems to keep their attention.

Marty

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Permalink Reply by John Caran on June 13, 2009 at 6:28am

Travel along with one of your fire inspectors as they inspect old existing buildings. I worked in inspections for 6 years and had the pleasure of working in our old downtown area with mostly Type III buildings. It was a challenge to bring the older buildings up to code as the occupancy classification changed. Also, read Brannigans book.

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Permalink Reply by Marques Bush on June 15, 2009 at 6:11pm

Thanks guys. The information is much appreciated.

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