Firefighting Technology Research at NIST

摘要

Several projects currently being conducted or recently completed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that provides the measurement science and performance metrics critical for developing and implementing the new technology needed to improve firefighter and other emergency responders' effectiveness and safety, is presented. Among others, earlier this year, researchers from NIST spent two months measuring the effects of crew size and apparatus arrival time on the fire conditions within a 4,000-square-foot, two-storey duplex specially built to survive the repeated fire exposure. The results from these fireground experiments will complement a fire incident survey of 400 fire departments across the US. Together these two parts of the study will provide an overview of the incident outcomes, along with a detailed understanding of fireground effectiveness.