Vacant mid-rise and high-rise buildings must be examined by firefighters regularly for changes that occurred. Open or removed fire doors, damaged or missing walls, holes in the floors, removed or ...

High-rise buildings present unique challenges, with more than 1,110 skyscrapers exceeding 490 feet across the United States[1]. In any structure of five stories or more, first responders often face ...

Critical insights on high-rise firefighting, standpipe operations, super-block complexes, commercial tactics, big box with limited staffing, and air safety. This conference will focus on the critical ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor’s skyline has two notable additions with new high-rises completed in August, including the tallest building the city has seen in over half a century. And several more big ...

In a sense, the shipboard blaze that killed two firefighters at Port Newark last month was a high-rise fire, burning on the upper decks of a cargo vessel on the water. “You could call it a floating ...