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Davis, Simon. "Fire Fighting Water: A Review of Fire Fighting Water Requirements A New Zealand Perspective." University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8346.
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This paper seeks to identify a linkage between the requirements for fire fighting water and building design. This paper reviews existing methods to calculate fire fighting water requirements and comments on their applicability in the context of fire service tactics.
Defining what constitutes an adequate supply of water for fire fighting is also central to planning fire service operations.
The provision of water for fire fighting operations is a significant infrastructure cost borne by the community as the fire fighting requirements dominates the sizing of the network elements.
This paper reviews work undertaken to date and seeks to offer a methodology that supports the fire engineering approach being adopted in performance based building codes.
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Ask, Anna Vikström. "Reasons for fire fighting in projects." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik och datavetenskap, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-6055.
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This work is a study examining the causes of fire fighting in software projects. Fire fighting is the practice of reactive management, i.e. focus being put at solving the problem of the moment. The study in the thesis is performed in two parts, one part is a literature study examining what academia considers as the reasons of fire fighting and how to minimise the problem. The other part of the thesis is an interview series performed in the industry with the purpose of finding what they consider the causes of the fire fighting phenomena. What is indicated by the interview series, as being the main causes of the problems are problems that are related to requirements, and problems caused by persons with key knowledge leaving the project.Detta arbete undersöker orsakerna bakom "fire fighting" i mjukvaru projekt. "Fire fighting", eller brandsläckning, är utövandet av reaktivt management, dvs. att gruppen lägger fokus på att lösa de problem som för tillfället finns i projektet. Arbete är uppbyggt i två delar, den ena delen är en literaturstudie och den andra en studie av vad industrin anser orsaka "fire fighting" beteendet.
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Bourgeois, Amy Laura Liu. "Biodegradability of Fluorination Fire Fighting Foams." Digital WPI, 2014. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/502.
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Fluorinated fire fighting foams provide superior performance for extinguishing Class B flammable liquid fires when compared to other types of fire fighting foams. Perfluorocarboxylates and perfluorosulfonates have historically been surfactants used in these foams with a recent shift to fluorotelomer-based foams due to environmental and health concerns surrounding perfluorinated compounds such as PFOA and PFOS. Releases of aqueous film forming foams from training, accidental spills, or fire events where wastewater is not captured have, among other sources, led to detectable concentrations of fluorinated compounds in groundwater, surface water, and drinking water supplies globally. Persistence, toxicity, and bioaccumulation potential of these substances are areas of ongoing research. Biodegradability data for these AFFFs in published studies and manufacturers’ material safety data sheets may be based on a comparison of BOD and COD measures. The present study concludes that COD is an inappropriate measure of organic content for fluorinated compounds due to the carbon-fluorine bond strength, and thus published biodegradability data must be critically evaluated for validity. TOC measured an average of 91% of carbon content for four fluorinated test substances, recommending it for use as an analytical parameter in biodegradability tests when specific compounds’ identities are not required, e.g. in the absence of an LC/MS. Biodegradability of three fluorinated foams (AFFF, AR-AFFF, and FP) purchased from a major U.S. manufacturer measured in the range of 77-96% based on DOC die-away during a 28-day test using activated sludge inoculum. This meets OECD criteria for “ready biodegradability� and NFPA biodegradability recommendations in Standards 18, 18A, and 1150. Defluorination of two foams was measured using ion chromatography and, based on an estimate for total fluorine content developed in part from manufacturer MSDSs, was found to liberate a detectable level of fluorine that was 1 to 2 orders of magnitude less than the estimated value. In this 28-day test, foams underwent significant biodegradation but fluorinated compounds’ biodegradation was likely incomplete.
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Setser, Katherine. "Fighting Fire with Fire: Redefining the Interior Design Value Proposition." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377873629.
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Powner, Jonathan R. "Provincial fire-fighting in England 1666-1941." Thesis, Keele University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314584.
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The thesis examines and explains the history of provincial fire-fighting in England. A literature survey demonstrates the academic neglect of the subject, and discusses the written work that exists. This is supplemented by an extensive bibliography. An outline of early fire history then indicates that nothing happened in the fight against fire until the Great Fire of London, in 1666. This event directly inspired the formation of the first fire brigades in Britain by the insurance companies. Financing their own fire brigades, the insurance companies set a precedent that was to hinder the establishment of a national system of fire-fighting for over two hundred years. Two constant themes emerge: the first is that it takes a disaster to prompt action, and the second is that there was no overall organisation in English firefighting until World War Two. A study of fire appliances reveals that their slow development hindered the growth of fire brigades, but once multiple manufacturers emerged and became competitive, then interest was stimulated, directly resulting in the establishment of many local brigades. An examination of equipment follows this. By studying the types and sizes of brigades it is revealed that fire-fighting was a local expedient, and that self-help was essential since successive governments failed to provide any national fire acts until 1938. The different forms, membership, and financial circumstances of individual brigades show the totally dangerous shambles out of which the efficient British Fire Services of today have arisen. Aspects of the life of the fireman (remuneration, pensions, hours, unions, fire stations, etc.) are then highlighted before it is shown why he became a hero of Victorian society, and the epitome of the ideal of manliness
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Cincotta, Salvatore. "Resilience-based optimal fire fighting in process plants." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.
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In the recent years, fire domino effects have been involved in some extremely severe accidents in the chemical and process industries. In the need of a better understanding of the prevention of fire escalation scenarios, the present study focuses on emergency firefighting which compared to passive and active fire protection measures has received less attention. In the present study, a resilience-based firefighting methodology has been introduced to increase the absorptive capacity of process plants in withstanding the expanding disruptions of fire escalation scenarios. The proposed resilience metric allows to measure the resilience and performance deficiencies and facilitates the identification of optimal intervention actions that lead to the lowest loss of resilience.
The modeling of fire escalation scenarios has been conducted using a Bayesian network approach while the modeling and investigating the effect of different firefighting strategies has been performed by extending the Bayesian network to an influence diagram. The area above the resilience curve, which is equal to the loss of resiliency, has been considered as a metric and discriminating factor to identify the optimal firefighting strategy. The results of this innovative investigation allow to better understand the effectiveness and reliability of the emergency protection interventions in a chemical plant and to study how the domino effect risk assessment can be enriched by new concepts optimizing the distribution of human and material resources in fire fighting operations.
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Rogers, Lucy Elizabeth. "Foam formation in low expansion fire fighting equipment." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250575.
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Gagnon, Brian D. "Evaluation of New Test Methods for Fire Fighting Clothing." Digital WPI, 2000. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/218.
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Despite advancements in the development of synthetic fibers and materials that provide better insulation, fire ground burn injuries remain a significant issue. The current test methods for fire fighting clothing were investigated to determine their adequacy in evaluating the actual performance of clothing materials. This investigation uncovered several potential problems with the current test methods. A series of new, small scale, tests were used to evaluate the shortcomings of the current test methods and develop possible improvements. A small test apparatus, designed and donated by Ktech Corporation, was used to measure the thermal properties (thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity) of a series of fire fighting clothing materials. The thermal properties were estimated for single fabric layers, as well as ensembles, with various levels of moisture added to simulate actual end use conditions. In addition, a skin simulant sensor was used to assess the time to 2nd degree burn for exposures similar to those required in current standards for fire fighting clothing. A one dimensional heat conduction model was developed to predict the time to 2nd degree burn for the skin simulant sensor protected with outer shell materials that may be used as wildland fire fighting clothing, using the thermal property data obtained from earlier tests. An alternative method was developed to calculate the time to 2nd degree burn for ensembles evaluated with the new skin simulant sensor. The predictions for the time to 2nd degree burn obtained from the new skin simulant sensor were compared against results obtained using the sensor specified in the current test methods. The predictions for the skin simulant sensor were consistently shorter than those from the current test sensor. The current test sensor predictions for the time to 2nd degree burn were nominally 40% to 50% higher than the predictions from the skin simulant sensor during the evaluations of outer shell materials.
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Heseltine, Elizabeth Nicola Jane. "The alkaline hydrolysates of keratins." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239835.
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Harris-Spence, Francesca. "Learning a lesson : the changing philosophy of fire fighting and fire prevention in South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh3163.pdf.
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Lai, Kam-biu Billy, and 黎錦彪. "Policy analysis and policy windows: fire fighting policy in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3196588X.
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Healy, Thomas F. "Fighting tomorrow's fire today: leveraging intelligence for scenario-based exercise design." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/41388.
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CHDS State/LocalThere is a great opportunity for collaborative learning when agencies conduct emergency preparedness exercises together. If different members of the community contribute to the development of these exercises, then this learning benefits the entire population. As it stands, preparedness exercises are being conducted with minimal regard to recommendations from previous exercises and real-world events. Along with the incorporation of intelligence into these exercises, the objectives should promote a more inclusive design process based on focused relevance, encouraging agencies to view themselves more as members of the greater community rather than individual entities. Terrorist organizations learn from past failures as well as successes, and emergency responders should strive to parallel this learning in order to develop tactical improvements. Emergency responders need to promote the idea of intelligence-driven exercise design in order to support community resilience through collaborative training. Municipalities should spearhead this effort, supported financially by the private sector. With this fusion of intelligence and collaborative exercise design, we can learn from the fires of yesterday and prepare for the emergencies of tomorrow.
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Lai, Kam-biu Billy. "Policy analysis and policy windows : fire fighting policy in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21037875.
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Cowlard, Adam. "Sensor and model integration for the rapid prediction of concurrent flow flame spread." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2753.
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Fire Safety Engineering is required at every stage in the life cycle of modern-day buildings. Fire safety design, detection and suppression, and emergency response are all vital components of Structural Fire Safety but are usually perceived as independent issues. Sensor deployment and exploitation is now common place in modern buildings for means such as temperature, air quality and security management. Despite the potential wealth of information these sensors could afford fire fighters, the design of sensor networks within buildings is entirely detached from procedures associated to emergency management. The experiences of Dalmarnock Fire Test Two showed that streams of raw data emerging from sensors lead to a rapid information overload and do little to improve the understanding of the complex phenomenon and likely future events during a real fire. Despite current sensor technology in other fields being far more advanced than that of fire, there is no justification for more complex and expensive sensors in this context. In isolation therefore, sensors are not sufficient to aid emergency response. Fire modelling follows a similar path. Two studies of Dalmarnock Fire Test One demonstrate clearly the current state of the art of fire modelling. A Priori studies by Rein et al. 2009 showed that blind prediction of the evolution of a compartment fire is currently beyond the state of the art of fire modelling practice. A Posteriori studies by Jahn et al. 2007 demonstrated that even with the provision of large quantities of sensor data, video footage, and prior knowledge of the fire; producing a CFD reconstruction was an incredibly difficult, laborious, intuitive and repetitive task. Fire fighting is therefore left as an isolated activity that does not benefit from sensor data or the potential of modelling the event. In isolation sensors and fire modelling are found lacking. Together though they appear to form the perfect compliment. Sensors provide a plethora of information which lacks interpretation. Models provide a method of interpretation but lack the necessary information to make this output robust. Thus a mechanism to achieve accurate, timely predictions by means of theoretical models steered by continuous calibration against sensor measurements is proposed. Issues of accuracy aside, these models demand heavy resources and computational time periods that are far greater than the time associated with the processes being simulated. To be of use to emergency responders, the output would need to be produced faster than the event itself with lead time to enable planning of an intervention strategy. Therefore in isolation, model output is not robust or fast enough to be implemented in an emergency response scenario. The concept of super-real time predictions steered by measurements is studied in the simple yet meaningful scenario of concurrent flow flame spread. Experiments have been conducted with PMMA slabs to feed sensor data into a simple analytical model. Numerous sensing techniques have been adapted to feed a simple algebraic expression from the literature linking flame spread, flame characteristics and pyrolysis evolution in order to model upward flame spread. The measurements are continuously fed to the computations so that projections of the flame spread velocity and flame characteristics can be established at each instant in time, ahead of the real flame. It was observed that as the input parameters in the analytical models were optimised to the scenario, rapid convergence between the evolving experiment and the predictions was attained.
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Myers, Alexandra. "A computational study of the effect of cross wind on the flow of fire fighting agent." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Jun%5FMyers.pdf.
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Pan, J. Y. "Fighting fire with fire – a Pre-emptive approach to restore control over IT assets from malware infection." Thesis, Pan, J.Y. (2012) Fighting fire with fire – a Pre-emptive approach to restore control over IT assets from malware infection. Professional Doctorate thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/13078/.
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Malware is a major threat as they induce multiple risks to infected organizations. Current Anti-Malware solutions meant to keep Malware away are challenged on how to keep the risks at bay effectively. When a Malware manages to penetrate an organization’s defences, there is a need to effectively contain the Malware and retain control over the organization’s IT assets before the risk escalates. In response, Malware Remediation is supposed to contain the effects of the Malware infiltration or outbreak. However Incident Responders face many challenges to contain the malice. One challenge is the logistics of how to coordinate a distributed and timely containment. Another is the need of an effective technique to defunct the Malware as they are able to overcome conventional countermeasures. The final challenge is how to maintain the level of effectiveness of the containment tools in the face of self-preservation attacks by the Malware. This research study evaluates the use of Malware techniques to address the three challenges as a part of Malware Remediation in order to restore control over the IT assets back to the organization.
In this thesis, the first proposition to the challenge of coordinating a distributed incident response plan is to use the distributed and coordinated characteristics of a command and control botnet. In order to validate this proposition, an agent based simulation model was developed to show that a good (non-malicious) botnet with its distributed and coordinated containment approach will result in faster Malware containment and reduce the effects of a Malware outbreak compared to conventional manual containment techniques. The proposed solution to the second challenge is to use the offensive techniques used by Malware to defunct the targeted Malware. The evaluation is done through three experiments using three different offensive techniques against live Malware. One of the three experiments involved a smartphone Malware as this form of Malware is becoming increasingly prevalent in recent times. All three experiments showed that offensive techniques could effectively defunct the targeted Malware in the infected devices. The proposition to the final challenge is to adopt Malware resilient designs. The latter is used by Malware to protect themselves against Anti-Malware solutions and attempts to defunct them. The proposal is evaluated by conducting three experiments where a custom developed application that incorporated Malware resilience designs was attacked using Malware offensive techniques. All three experiments demonstrated that Malware resilient designs could aid Malware Remediation tool developers or Anti-Malware solution developers to protect their products against self-preservation attacks of Malware.
In order to facilitate the adoption of the three research proposals by Incident Responders, the last proposition in this thesis is to package the knowledge of using Malware techniques for Malware Remediation into Malware Remediation patterns. The latter uses a pattern template derived from common security pedagogical patterns. Samples of the Malware like Malware Remediation patterns are included in the thesis. The thesis concludes with a consideration into future research directions with respect to all the research proposals mentioned in the study.
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Barnett, David L. "EVALUATION OF FIRE-FIGHTING HELMET SURFACE TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH RADIANT HEAT APPLICATIONS." UKnowledge, 2003. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/305.
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Protective helmets used by fire-fighters must be designed to minimize the amount of heat transferred to the users head while providing durability, comfort, and affordable costs. This thesis highlights the evaluation of new helmet technology specifically tailored to high radiant heat environments to advance the state-of-the-art in head protection for this application. The research focused on the assessment of the outer shells of helmets and the properties of the surfaces. The development included the evaluation of radiation heat transfer, in a laboratory environment, to various helmet shell surface constructions. Industry standards were considered, and critiqued. Experiments were designed to isolate critical design variables for measurement and evaluation. Custom, purpose-built laboratory apparatus for testing helmets were designed, explained and utilized in the testing of specimens. Additionally, market demands for firefighting helmets were explored. Helmet durability was specifically addressed with abrasion criteria established and the reflectivity effects of the abraded surfaces evaluated. Resulting from this study, new surface technologies were identified for possible development in future helmet designs. Various surface materials, finishes, and coatings were compared and contrasted to current industry state-of-the-art equipment. The knowledge discovered further advanced modern head protection science in aim of increased safety and performance of fire-fighting personnel.
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Brewer, Elizabeth Ann. "Fighting Fire With Fire: The Use of A Multimedia WebQuest in Increasing Middle-School Students’ Understandings of Cyberbullying." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/266.
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Cyberbullying, the use of personal and information and communication technologies to harass or intimidate others, is an increasingly pervasive problem in schools. This mixed- methods study explored the effectiveness of a multimedia WebQuest in teaching 156 middle-school students about the dangers of cyberbullying and examined the role of gender in learning about cyber-harassment. Set within a constructivist framework, the study provides an innovative, technological intervention for cyberbullying education for use with adolescents and is instrumental in reshaping public policy surrounding cyberbullying education and prevention. The dissertation study occurred in two phases. Phase I, WebQuest Construction, was qualitative in nature and employed stakeholder focus groups to assess middle-school students’ knowledge and awareness surrounding cyberbullying. Data from the focus groups informed the construction of the WebQuest. The second phase, Data Collection from Students, was quantitative in nature and was composed of a pre-test, WebQuest treatment, and post-test. Data analyses for Phase II included paired-sample t tests, repeated-measures analyses of variance, and descriptive statistics that focused on three dependent variables, namely awareness, safety, and knowledge. Findings indicated statistically significant increases in awareness and knowledge from the pre-test to post-test among the middle-school aged participants, while the slight increase in safety from pre to post-test was not significant. The findings support the need for school communities to begin engaging in conversation surrounding the best ways to teach students about cyberbullying’s dangers through the use of technology and issue a call for a re-examination of constructivist learning theory.
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Petruška, Ondřej. "Úprava letounu EV-55 na požární verzi." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232105.
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Diplomová práce se zabývá přestavbou dvoumotorového letounu EV-55 vyvíjeného společností Evektor s.r.o. na požární verzi. Konstrukční úprava odpovídá předpisu CS-23 Amendment 3. Nejprve je provedena studie a porovnání se současnými konkurenčními požárními letouny. Na základě této studie je zhodnocena vhodnost letounu EV-55 pro přestavbu na požární verzi a stanoveny požadavky, které musí požární EV-55 splňovat z hlediska konkurenceschopnosti. Na základě těchto požadavků a certifikačních předpisů je provedena hlavní část práce - konstrukce hasicího zařízení a navrženy nutné konstrukční úpravy trupu letounu. Dle uvedeného předpisu je dále provedena pevnostní kontrola zařízení a trupu s úpravami. Na závěr je zhodnocen vliv hasicího zařízení na letové výkony a stabilitu letounu.
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Eklund, Eric Paul. ""Fire is Almost Certain to Follow:" The Development of Fire-Fighting Technology in the United States Navy, 1920-1942." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392969104.
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Chan, Yun-sang Elvis. "Understanding of Chinese buying behaviour : a network approach /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1357047X.
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Horwitz, Jay Robert. "Fighting Fires Together: Essays on Alliances among Fire Departments." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31782.
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Organizations enter into strategic alliances for economic value that cannot be achieved by working alone. Despite the potential benefits many alliances fail to meet their goals, destroy value, and end in termination. Success within alliances is neither automatic nor assured. The ways that organizations arrange their alliances to contend with impediments to success is of great practical and theoretical importance. This thesis studies how formal and informal arrangements arise over time and influence the performance of U.S. fire departments.
The first study empirically describes how formal contracting influences performance of the alliance and its members. I analyze a sample of responses by US fire departments to fires over 11 years, and I describe how contracting affects four dimensions of performance: arrival minutes, resolution minutes, property damage, and casualties. I find (i) the effect of contracts varies across qualitatively different outcomes, (ii) that contracts deliver separate costs and benefits at the level of the alliance and the organization, and (iii) that estimates are sensitive to matching on pre-contracting covariates including social context. The second study examines the role played by social context in contracting. Looking at the hazard of contracting between pairs of alliance partners I examine the effects of increased embeddedness in (i) focal relationships and in (ii) networks of outside relation- ships. I find that qualitative differences in prior interactions partly explain the decision to formally contract. I find that differences in arrangements with other partners affect formal contracting both directly and indirectly through interpretations of dyadic history. These findings suggest that models of relational mechanisms that accumulate within a relationship work both in parallel and interactively with broader social networks. The third study investigates how the design of alliances affects the performance of their members. I distinguish between (i) the extent to which departments rely on their own resources versus those of their alliance partners, (ii) the formality of arrangements, and (iii) performance in terms of property damage and casualties. I find that formal contracts are needed to improve some aspects of performance while informal arrangements are sufficient for others. This finding suggests a nuanced relationship among alliance structures and outcomes.
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Huang, Fang-Chu, and 黃鳳初. "Fire fighting capacity Study- For example Bade Fire Bureau." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45659667051535153510.
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碩士清雲科技大學
空間資訊與防災研究所
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Fire rescue is against the clock. How to arrive at the disaster scene as soon as possible and practice the various rescue measures is an important topic. The study will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyse the cases of fires occurred in Bade unit area from 2005 to 2010. It will investigate the spatial distribution and characteristics of the disaster, and provide disaster preparedness for future and firefighters training. The research conducted the following four major fields of studies；一、Use geographic information system (GIS) to analyse the spatial characteristics distribution on the history of the fire and travel time, then discuss the suitability of the fire jurisdictions and possible causes of fire breaking out. 二、 Analyse the moving speed of the fire engines and discuss the reasons on fast or slow in moving speed. 三、 Use path analysis as a basis (GIS Route analysis) to simulate the best path to the fire scene. Discuss the pros and cons of the shortest distance, time and human experience to judge the path. 四、Use the GIS services as a basis (service area) to discuss whether the fire fighting under the jurisdiction of units can completely protect their jurisdiction. The results have shown that northwest area (now the Jiadong fire unit Area) under Bade fire unit area needs to spend more time arriving at the scene. Therefore, Jiadong Fire Brigade was established in June 1998. Moreover, the study has also shown that the areas where most fire occurred are located in the northwest side, near Guo Cheng community, along the southwest side of Xingfeng Road, and near Bade City Hall. These two regions have buildings and high population density. At rush hours, slower moving speed on the road occurs. With the distance of the scenes increase, there are fewer vehicles when the fire engines enter the suburb. Hence, the speed of traveling will automatically be faster. Even though simulating the shortest time path is the best path, yet the simulation does not consider the real-time road conditions. The drivers should adjust both the attendance speed and the traffic conditions in order to bring the maximum effectiveness on the use of best path.
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Wu, Chia-Hao, and 吳家豪. "3D spatial information for fire-fighting simulation of building fires." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96571736863197282085.
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博士國立中央大學
土木工程學系
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Fire departments already make use of geographic information systems (GIS) to reduce the response time in case of incidents. However, the complex internal structure of buildings on fire may make search and rescue efforts difficult in emergency situations. This study was motivated by the need for a micro GIS to represent and analyze 3D spatial data for fire-fighting simulations of building fires. A method was developed to generate a 3D geometric network model (GNM) from 2D building plans. This model performed network-based analysis within a building. In addition, the applicability of the building information model (BIM) in geospatial environments could provide a 3D visualization environment with sufficient geometric and semantic information about the buildings. Virtual ladder trucks were added in the 3D environment to simulate the positioning and operations of aerial ladders. Finally, the GNM model was implemented to perform fire-fighting simulations based on actual buildings. The proposed method can provide a tool to assist firefighters to find the optimal path within a building, minimize the search time for potential victims, and help firefighters quickly locate their ladder trucks, so as to reduce the response time after an incident.
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許嘉興. "Fire fighting of semiconductor''s factory." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2k6g7c.
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碩士中央警察大學
消防科學研究所
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The process of semiconductor manufacturing is very dangerous. If there is a fire, it will cause very large damage than any other building’s conflagration. To prevent such high-tech industry from fire, this paper based on space characteristic, fire case and manufacturing process try to investigate each fire scenario, provide the suggesions for the initial response & follow up fire-fighting strastegies. Therefore, the more security in fire rescue, less property and life loss, and minify fire effect can be expected.
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林聖凱. "A study of fire-fighting operations in long road tunnel fires." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d8mf96.
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Repenning, Nelson. "Understanding Fire Fighting in New Product Development." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3961.
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Despite documented benefits, the processes described in the new product development literature often prove difficult to follow in practice. A principal source of such difficulties is the phenomenon of fire fighting the unplanned allocation of resources to fix problems discovered late in a product's development cycle. While it has been widely criticized, fire fighting is a common occurrence in many product development organizations. To understand both its existence and persistence, in this article I develop a formal model of fire fighting in a multi-project development environment. The major contributions of this analysis are to suggest that: (1) fire fighting can be a self-reinforcing phenomenon; and (2) multi-project development systems are far more susceptible to this dynamic than is currently appreciated. These insights suggest that many of the current methods for aggregate resource and product portfolio planning, while necessary, are not sufficient to prevent fire fighting and the consequent low performance.MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development under NSF Cooperative Agreement Number EEC-9529140, the Harley-Davidson Motor Company and the Ford Motor Company
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Yu, Chin-Fang, and 游志芳. "The Study on Safety Risk Assessment of Fire-fighting Equipments----A Case Study on Fire-fighting Equipments in Residence." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qm642t.
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碩士中華科技大學
土木防災與管理碩士班
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According to the statistic data in fire disasters from the National Fire Agency of Taiwan, residential fire rates are the highest, and the functionality of the residential fire-fighting equipment is directly connected to people’s life and property safety. As result of that, it turns into a major issue when it comes to maintenance in the face of the diversity of increasing fire-fighting equipment. This study attempts to collect the reporting documents of fire maintenance in Taipei City from 2010 to 2012, and study the possible types and factors which may cause to the faulty fire-fighting equipment. Based on the risk assessment and risk management tools, it conducts the risk assessments and controls, to explore the risk control strategies and corresponding actions. The study is constrained to conduct research only in the areas of Wanhua District, Beitou District, Neihu District and Datong District in Taipei City. The results show that the corresponding risk levels of these four districts are H12, H15, H9 and M6, respectively, indicating that the equipment needed to be repaired and checked immediately. Through applying the analyze of risk-aware strategies, in Case 1, Wanhua District, it shows that the risk factors are identified as common functional faults in the fire-fighting equipment so that regular checks and repairs by profession personnel are recommended; in Case 2, Beitou District, the main factors were caused by the geographical features, it is thus recommended to enhance the duration of fire-fighting equipment; in terms of Case 3, Neihu District，it is generally caused by interior design planning, thus the verification system of the interior design planning should be implemented to reduce level of risk factor; in Case 4 ,Datong District, the factors belong to visible (appearance) faults, which can be improved by enhancing the equipment maintenance by the profession personnel, and based on the characteristic of different districts, thereby providing corresponding management strategies against fire-fighting equipment. In view of that, it result in an acceptable level (M4=verification needed and L2=acceptable) due to reducing the possibility of risk factors (below 50%). The future study will focus on process evaluation and management profession division. The contribution of this study is to provide guidelines for the corresponding authorities in the area of fire-fighting equipment management. It also aims to benefit commonwealth by reducing the possibility of faulty fire-fighting equipment, which may cause to the loss of people’s life and property.
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Öz, Volkan. "Fighting fire with fire?: an assessment of the potential threats of westerners fighting against ISIS in Syria and Iraq." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/24425.
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Since the Syrian Civil War started in 2011, over forty thousand foreign fighters from different parts of the world have made their way to Syria and Iraq to join various armed groups. There are three main groups of foreign fighters: firstly, pro-ISIS foreign fighters who are associated with jihadist groups like Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS); secondly, pro-regime Shiite foreign fighters who are affiliated with the Assad government; and finally, anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters, fighting with Kurdish and Christian groups against ISIS and other jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq.
Anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters’ level of radicalization and use of violence have significantly increased in Syrian-Iraqi battlefields. They have actively engaged in use of firearms, explosives, urban tactics and guerrilla warfare. They have built transnational extremist connections and networks to incite and recruit like-minded individuals. Some politically oriented extremist anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters have founded their own armed groups in Syria. Some have participated in preparation for terrorist actions after returning to their home countries. This study, thus, analyzed the profiles of anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters, assessed potential threats that they might pose and concluded that far-left extremist anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters and the armed groups that they are affiliated are a serious threat to their countries of origin and international security because they have the capability and intent to conduct terrorist acts.
The increasing number of recent terrorist attacks in the West has led international organizations and countries to develop policies to tackle the threat posed by foreign fighters. Many Western countries, however, have not treated anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters like their pro-ISIS counterparts. Therefore, a comprehensive policy against anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters is required. This dissertation, on this account, presented recommendations on how international organizations and Western governments should manage the issue of anti-ISIS Western foreign fighters.Desde o início da Guerra Civil Síria em 2011, mais de quarenta mil combatentes estrangeiros de diferentes partes do mundo fizeram seu caminho para a Síria e o Iraque para se juntar a vários grupos armados. Existem três grupos principais de combatentes estrangeiros: em primeiro lugar, combatentes estrangeiros pró-ISIS que estão associados a grupos jihadistas como o Estado Islâmico no Iraque e a Síria (ISIS); em segundo lugar, combatentes xiitas pró-regime que são filiados ao governo Assad; e, finalmente, combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS, lutando com grupos curdos e cristãos contra o ISIS e outros grupos jihadistas na Síria e no Iraque. O nível de radicalização e uso de violência dos combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS aumentou significativamente nos campos de batalha sírio-iraquianos. Eles se engajaram ativamente no uso de armas de fogo, explosivos, táticas urbanas e guerrilhas. Eles construíram conexões e redes extremistas transnacionais para incitar e recrutar indivíduos com ideias semelhantes. Alguns combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS de orientação política fundaram seus próprios grupos armados na Síria. Alguns participaram da preparação para ações terroristas após retornarem a seus países de origem. Este estudo, portanto, analisou os perfis de combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS, avaliou ameaças potenciais que eles podem representar e concluiu que os combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS extremistas de extrema esquerda e os grupos armados aos quais estão filiados são uma ameaça séria para seus países de origem e segurança internacional porque têm a capacidade e a intenção de realizar atos terroristas. O número crescente de ataques terroristas recentes no Ocidente levou organizações internacionais e países a desenvolver políticas para enfrentar a ameaça representada por combatentes estrangeiros. Muitos países ocidentais, entretanto, não trataram os combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS como seus homólogos pró-ISIS. Portanto, é necessária uma política abrangente contra os combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS. Nesta política, todas as medidas tomadas para a prevenção, acusação e reintegração de combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais pró-ISIS também devem ser aplicadas aos combatentes estrangeiros ocidentais anti-ISIS.
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LUO, JI-WEI, and 羅吉緯. "Internet of Things on Fire－Fighting Inspection System." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05496729380219274919.
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碩士大葉大學
管理學院碩士在職專班
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March 6, 2011, Taichung Aladdin pub fire killed nine people in the news once again aroused the importance of fire safety equipment checks. Safety inspection record at this stage of the fire fighting equipment is still paper-based, follow-up data and then input to the computer, if your feed equipment for more efficient inspection and recording, I believe that security will work more reliably and more convenient. Action dimensional bar code technology (QR Code) apply in all respects more and more, it has a certain impact on human power. Dimensional bar code technology is generated by scanning the message interpreted the role of induction and QR code reader between the characteristics of the two-dimensional bar code is the big data capacity, and can add a password when encoding and decoding, improve data security sex. In addition there is a two-dimensional bar code error correction capability, even with worn or folded, the reader can also read the information, and therefore good resistance to damage, can quickly scan and read big data storage capacity. In this study, QR Code features a combination of personal mobile devices to construct a fire equipment safety inspection system and the site inspection database, in order to assist fire inspection authority does enforcement of fire safety equipment safety checks, and create an automated information management, conduct fire equipment safety inspection record digitized. Really we hope that through fire safety inspection equipment, which can effectively reduce injury to persons and goods in case of fire, and then reached the performance and quality of public safety equipment fire safety inspection improved.
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TSAI, MENG-CHOU, and 蔡孟洲. "Effect of Safety Management Mechanism on Fire Fighting." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86129746182853120966.
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碩士東南科技大學
營建科技與防災研究所在職專班
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In recent years, there are numerous heroic firefighters who died in the course of performing their duties. It takes a great deal of money and time to train a competent firefighter; nevertheless, it only takes a moment to put a firefighter's life in imminent danger.In particular, there are a number of uncertain risk factors such as flashover, backdraft and the possibility of building collapse due to the change of its structure which caused by the high temperature. All of these pose a great threat to those firefighters who go deep into disaster scenes. In light of the above-mentioned potential risks, there's a necessity and urgency of promoting the safety management of firefighting. From Taiwan and other country's papers can know the basic way of safety management of firefighters firefighting and know the main reasons about firefighters' death by cases study. In the end, through interviews can know nowadays management way can reduce firefighters' mortality rate. It has great help for the first line rescuers and command system in the future.
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Huang, Ching-Yu, and 黃靖宇. "A Study On Aassignment Of Fire Fighting Services." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71173622196803572599.
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碩士國立臺灣海洋大學
商船學系所
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Duty scheduling of firefighting is the groundwork of service operation for fire unit as well as a basis for fireman's duty rotation. As firefighting involves disaster rescue, first-aid treatment and fire prevention, it is complicated and requires heavy responsibility and day and night the duty will never discontinue. Most firemen go on duty overtime in order to accomplish firefighting mission under the circumstances of domestic manpower shortage, therefore, the quality of scheduling and design of duty becomes important. Duty scheduling doesn't only impact on effectiveness of firefighting indirectly , but also directly impacts on rotating firemen's physical and mental health and work morale. For above reasons, the way of making duty scheduling of firefighting fair, effective and scientific is the goal that all fire duty units are positively searching after at the moment. Respecting the existing duty scheduling system of firefighting service does not have a comparatively exhaustive and reasonable model yet, entire firefighting units coordinate the duties by their characteristic, manpower, and related regulations for scheduling flexible. This kind of arrangement seems set up for organizing object more efficient, but unable to assess its feasibility. Therefore, this study use Rueifang fire unit, the 6th rescue and EMS Battalion of New Taipei City Government Fire Department, as a case to discuss the fairness issues of duty scheduling by its current provisions. Following, this study recruits the subject fire unit’s duty scheduling data for these 2 years and run a quantitative analysis. Finally, this study utilizes the subject fire unit’s duty scheduling data to exam the fairness of it. Research result indicates that the scheduling system of firefighting service should consider not only firefighter’s average service hour, but also the volume change of the duties. The findings of this study will be applied to the following duty scheduling of firefighting.
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Lin, Che-Yuan, and 林哲源. "Application of Wireless Technology on Fire-Fighting Inspection System." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07883179266309448193.
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碩士亞洲大學
光電與通訊學系碩士在職專班
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The event of Taichung Aladdin fire accident happing on March 6, 2011 to have 9 killed on site has aroused considerable emphasis on fire security inspection. However, the inspection documents for fire security right now are in process on paper, and those data are then recorded into computer. The work of security inspection would be more reliable and convenient if the inspection and record of fire security were proceeded with wireless information equipments. RFID has been applied broadly in all respects, which has bearing on comparative impacts to mankind. RFID system with function of data transmission was achieved by means of electromagnetic induction between tags and reader, which can carry out hundreds data acquisition in long distance at once. The purpose of this study is to construct a system to actually process security inspection for fire institutions. The proposed structure of the system is established by associating the RFID with personal digital assistance (PDA) and SQL data base to form a fire security inspection system, which was equipped with automatic information management and digital inspection record. The accomplished system could attain the objectives of reducing the injury of people and damages of articles as well as enhance the quality of public security.
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Chin-Lung, Chen, and 陳錦龍. "A Study of Fire Fighting Strategies for Metal Housing." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05044990117910712467.
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碩士吳鳳科技大學
消防研究所
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Because sheet metal buildings are easy to construct and are relatively low cost, they have been widely used in Taiwan. However, these types of buildings are severely lacking in durability and fire prevention ability. Thus, the occurrence of fires is often caused by the high fire loading of the building interior. These fires can burn especially hot and exceed the heat rating of steel structural support within a short period of time and cause buildings to rapidly collapse. This not only shortens the time for personnel to seek safety, but has also caused heavy casualties to firefighting personnel. Collection and analysis of relevant literature and fire examples were used in this study to establish a fire fighting and operation mechanism for sheet metal buildings. Metallurgical analysis equipment was used to conduct fire disaster experiment at six different fire temperatures. The metallurgical external microstructure and internal structural defects of metals that are naturally cooled and water cooled were also obtained in the experiment. Systematic compilation and analysis showed that the primary reason for sheet metal building collapse in a fire was major deformation of the “rod structure” in the metal structural support. This deformation shifts the entire structural center and cause uneven stress on the bolts of the structural joints. When these highly heated bolts are quenched by water (from a fire hose), their toughness can decrease drastically. Once the bolts’ toughness drops below the stress level, the bolts can snap off, causing increased stress on other bolts at the joints. A domino effect then occurs, which can result in the rupture of joints and roof collapse. We recommend that firefighters follow related SOP and safety principles when they encounter a sheet metal building fire and elaborate on recommendations for fighting a sheet metal building fire. Furthermore, firefighters should be careful where they aim their water jet, especially around structural joints. This can prevent rapid cooling (quenching) of bolts and adverse effects on structural stability.
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Liao, Jung-Huang, and 廖榮皇. "Optical System Design for Fire Fighting and Emergency Evacuation." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67253493512866060361.
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博士國立清華大學
動力機械工程學系
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Light and water are typically-important needs in a fire safety and fire-fighting task. However, the traditional designs and studies of relative apparatuses are lack of elements which integrate the interactions of light and water. In this study, the smoke and the water particles which scatter the light are discussed to develop a better design of the illumination in dark fire scenes. In general thinking, battery and utility-wires are the primary options of powering the needed illumination in dark scenes. The old thinking hides the challenges of complexity, high cost, maintenance, insufficient functions, and ergonomics of products. We develop a device that harvests a portion of the hydropower in the water passing through a pipe to drive a micro-turbine alternator and generate electrical power. The water is used to extinguish a fire. The electricity thus generated powers LEDs and laser. Herein, this study provides a synergistic design which takes advantage of the ambient resources sufficiently to supply the demands of the field without extra inputs of energy and people’s efforts. A Nozzle Light provides firefighters with a synergistic function, enabling the user to simultaneously spray water and illuminate the fire scene without requiring additional effort to handle the lighting unit. The Nozzle Light improves both fire-extinguishing efficiency and firefighter safety. And the Sprinkler Light using the scattering effect of laser with particles is integrated with the automatic sprinkler; it is proposed to solve the problem of fire evacuation when there are inadequate or faulty emergency lights or indicators. It is believed that with the development of this study, the possibility of survival and the chance for rescue are increased.
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LIEN, CHIA-HUNG, and 連家宏. "Benefit of Fire-Fighting in Narrow Alleys Business Circle." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gtz4d3.
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碩士東南科技大學
營建與空間設計系營建科技與防災碩士班
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On September 14, 2014, Wenhua Road, Xiqiao District, Taichung City (Fengjia Night Market Walking Area), the octopus burning stalls caused the fire to leak out. The scene was located in the main section of Fengjia Night Market, and there were many people. At that time, the stall merchants did not follow the plan formulated by the Ministry of the Interior. The guidelines for the space-saving activities of fire-fighting vehicles were set up for self-defense grouping to evacuate the people and the initial fire-fighting, so that large-scale fire engines could not enter the scene smoothly, and the fire continued to burn quickly. This paper takes the fire incident in the narrow laneway business circle in recent years as an example, and then uses the merchants (including traders), the public, and the firefighters in the narrow roadway business circle as the research object, and issues interview questionnaires to discuss the current regulations for the narrow roadway business district. In the event of a fire, it is necessary to study whether it can effectively reduce the fire damage for the initial rescue and evacuation of the public. In addition to the current fire-fighting vehicle equipment and detachment business, it is feasible to collect the ideas of various basic units for vehicle equipment and the promotion of various businesses. Sexuality and summary. The conclusion of improving the efficiency of fire rescue in the narrow lanes is to draw a red line in the business circle and add a pedestrian walking area. During the business hours of the business circle, vehicles are prohibited from entering the business circle, so that the disaster relief line can be kept open. The guiding principles formulated by the Ministry of the Interior can only guide the vendors to conduct self-defense grouping without penalty, and the stores in the business circle are not in the norm, resulting in limited effectiveness. The management circle should be revised and the management committee must be established and managed. Fire-fighting locomotives and three-story ladders are not effective in the rescue of fires in narrow lanes. They should focus on the purchase of small tank cars and hose racks, and conduct regular drills and fire prevention. Keywords: Narrow Alleys、Fire-Fighting in Business Circle、Countermeasures.
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Jin-yuan, Lin, and 林錦源. "Study on the hydraulic testing for fire fighting hoses." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qu42gj.
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碩士吳鳳科技大學
消防研究所
107
According to Articles 8 and 11 of Standard for Installation of Fire Safety Equipment Based on Use and Occupancy, fire safety equipment includes indoor fire hydrants, outdoor fire hydrants, automatic sprinkler systems (auxiliary sprinkler systems), foam fire-extinguishing equipment (mobile foam fire-extinguishing equipment), and connected water supply pipes. They are critical for fire extinguishment. However, the hoses of the above equipment have a high damage rate, as high as 70%, which may cause firefighters to miss the critical period for fire extinguishment. In view of the high hose damage rates, the Ministry of the Interior has stipulated that each hose used for firefighting should pass hydraulic testing to ensure that the hose is not damaged and has no leakage. This study has designed components for fire hose hydraulic testing and they are not only easy to operate but also cost effective. Most importantly, these components allow fire technicians to assemble and operate the test equipment easily when performing the hose hydraulic testing according to the government’s stipulation.
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Fang, Tsai Shih, and 蔡石芳. "A study on fulfilling fire safety inspection system with the third-party fire fighting." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10310324453291114260.
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Hsieh, Yu-Min, and 謝玉敏. "A Study on the Assignment of Fire Fighting Services in Fire Bureau Taoyuan County." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46089474350750862623.
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碩士國立臺北大學
公共行政暨政策學系碩士在職專班
99
Due to global climate change and usualness and public safety problems caused by lifestyle changes, the fact that the promotion of fire fighting service is closely linked to people’s lives, bodies, property and wealth and daily lives has become significant. Moreover, with the continuous increase of fire fighting services, shortage of firefighters, and annual increase of female firefighters, the importance of dividing fire fighting services among fire companies. It is an issue worth exploring. The research methods adopted in this study are documentary analysis, in-depth interviews and questionnaire surveys. Firemen from Fire Bureau Taoyuan County are the research sample. A number of 448 effective questionnaires returned, with an effective response rate of 60%. Also, in-depth interviews with firemen were carried out. According to the statistical data of the questionnaire surveys and analysis of in-depth interview results, the finding was concluded as follow: 1. In the case of service division, the traditional division of labor for services of male firemen and female firemen were still executed. 2. In the case of the workload of fire fighting services, the amount of services have been increasing every year, while fire fighting services decreasing progressively. 3. Since the types of services are diversified and complex, there are not enough firefighters, and workload has become heavier, thereby causing fire control generalists to become un-proficient. Lastly, the following suggestions are proposed based on the research results: 1. Suggestions to examination organizations: design fitness tests and admission standards with service execution competences, and add psychological test and detailed job description. 2. Suggestions to training organizations: design training courses that improves practical rescuing abilities, and implement an elimination system. 3.Suggestions to recruitment organizations: labor divided according to individual advantageous abilities and fairness in general, grasp the changes of the environment and increase effective rescuing abilities, improve the environment where hardware are stored and use a friendly approach to managing services.
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Grant, Ankica. "Fighting Fire with Fire: Investigating Prescribed Burns for Fuel and Fire Management in Northeast Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3006.
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Uncontrolled wildfires occur in Ontario and across Canada each year, typically during the fire season from April 1 to September 30. Fire suppression in protected areas and property (private, Crown land) coupled with warmer and drier summers are causing increased hazardous conditions that add fuel to the fire and result in more intense and prolonged wildfires.
Park managers realize that fire plays a significant role in maintaining the health of a boreal ecosystem and reducing flammable forest fuels. Prescribed burning is one practice that can regenerate fire-dependent ecosystems, reduce hazardous fuels, reduce wildfire spread, and protect values.
The objective of this research is to develop and test a methodology for modeling the potential of prescribed burns to serve as regional fire breaks. This method will be suitable for parks and protected areas, particularly those with flammable fuels close to their boundaries and ensure that fire does not spread beyond their jurisdiction. Park managers that implement fire as a tool in managing the landscape and permitting prescribed natural fires may find interest in the results of this proposed fire break method. The research study area is Quetico Wilderness Provincial Park, a park that successfully integrated the use of fire in their management strategies. However, it is anticipated that this method can be applied to other locations to regenerate fire-dependant ecosystems, reduce fuel and control wildfires.
Five fire break designs were simulated using Prometheus fire growth modeling software. There was statistically less fire outside the barrier, compared to having no barrier in place. Factors influencing the effectiveness of each break included fire break size, number of years required to create the break, proximity to the park boundary and barrier compactness (fragmentation or continuity). The potential escape in wildfires and area burned varied significantly between fire break designs.
In these simulations, a fire break is effective in reducing flammable fuels, regenerating boreal forest species and reducing the spread of and containing wildfires. It is evident that fire is an important factor in park management for maintaining ecosystem diversity. Regional fire breaks should be incorporated for fire and vegetation fuel management in parks. The use of software modeling should also be included with park operation.
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Wang, Chih-hui, and 王智輝. "Factors Affecting the Participation of Fire Fighting Volunteers--the Case of Tainan County Fire Bureau." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25582984890620714118.
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碩士南華大學
非營利事業管理研究所
98
In recent years disasters have occurred more frequently and relief works become more difficult in Taiwan.Due to insufficient fire fighting staff, the heavy burden of disaster relief and rescue has to be shared by fire fighting volunteers.This study aims to explore the major factors that affect the attendance rates of fire fighting volunteers in Tainan County.Major findings from questionnaire survey by convenience sampling are as following: 1. The stability of volunteer manpower is high, however, most of relief action are provided by a few volunteers, and some inexperienced volunteers have unsafe feeling. 2. Two major factors that may encourage attendance rates are immediate and open praise to those ardent participants, and establishing on duty schedules. 3. Among important factors that effect relief actions are intrinsic and external motives, attitude toward on duty arrangement and educational training, especially, the partnership between fire fighting volunteers and fire division managers. 4. In high attendance ares, most important factors are the attitude toward on duty arrangement and educational training, while in low attendance areas, establishing partnership, promoting higher participation motives and more training should be improved. 5. Three major concerns by volunteers are their devotion to help people, good welfare and insurance coverage and public applause. 6. Tree efficient strategies to raise attendance rates are improving welfare measures, information communication and encouragement system. Three major suggestions can be derived from this study: 1. Establishing good partnership and providing encouragement incentives, also allowing elimination of those lack of participation motives. 2. Improving relief equipments with wireless communication gears. 3. More relief education and trainings for new volunteers.
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Lin, Ming-Te, and 林明德. "A Study on Security Mechanisms of Fire Fighting- Cases of Fire Department in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72651713381548318479.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
土木工程與防災科技研究所
102
Abstract Due to everything on the fire ground are changing rapidly and full of dangerous and uncertainty, firefighters are usually harmed during the process of rescuing. For this reason, it is important to explore the issue that how to improve the system and the methods of security about rescuing works from firefighters. This study focused on rescuing works on the fire ground from the firefighters and reviewed relative literatures to develop the whole research architecture. Meanwhile, applying the method- Root Cause Analysis to identify important factors with real hurting cases of fire ground for questionnaire contents.To investigate the factors of security mechanisms of fire fighting in Kaohsiung city, a structured questionnaire model with self-administered was conducted and delivered to samples for six fire institutions in Kaohsiung city. For those who did in the test, over 400 random samples were chosen and be collected their data to analysis.After analyzing 366 effective samples of the questionnaire, the result shows the following three: (1) there are 137 firefighters (37.4%) once got hurt during the rescuing process in Kaohsiung city and 45 firefighters (32.8%) still got hurt again. It is obvious that dangerous causes on the fire ground still exist; (2) firefighters agree strongly that the individual equipment used on the fire ground should be examined and renewed regularly to protect them; (3) there are 63.9% participants that think the conductor is a key person who can know and control every firefighter’s security situation best on the fire ground and it shows that the conductor is the protector of the security during rescuing works. However, the conductor or commander couldn’t notice when firefighters are in danger during the rescuing work and it can be proved by many examples. Therefore, participants highly agreed with building Safety Officers System that can help to command and administer the firefighters’ security in rescuing works.
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Corriero, Mary Nicole. "Fire on ice a sociological perspective on fighting in hockey /." 2005. http://www.oregonpdf.org.
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Chen, Wei-Chun, and 陳瑋鈞. "Analysis of Rescue Capabilities of Fire-Fighting Units after Earthquake." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4k57u5.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
土木與防災研究所
98
Taiwan is located in the joint between the Eurasia plate and the Philippine Sea plate, which contains 42 active faults that cause frequent seismic activities. For example, the Chichi earthquake in 1999 caused severe losses in Taiwan. Once a major earthquake occurred in urban areas and post-earthquake fire, it will be possible beyond the ability of the rescue capabilities of fire-fighting units, and cause even greater losses. This study simulated an earthquake caused by the Shanjiao fault in northwestern Taipei, Taiwan, and applied the Monte Carlo simulation as an analytic method for reliability analysis. Using the simple earthquake seismic system (SESS), this study deduced the number of fire incidents after that earthquake, and analyzed the post-earthquake fire risk tolerance probability levels of the different districts of Taipei City. The results showed that the 8 administrative districts of Taipei City have a risk tolerance probability level below 60%, accounting for 66.7% of all administrative districts (8/12). In the support mode of regional mutual aid, 3 administrative districts of Taipei City have a risk tolerance probability level below 60%, accounting for 25.0% of all administrative districts (3/12). Therefore, the districts with a risk tolerance probability level above 60% can be increased by 41.7%, as based on regional mutual aid.
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邱泊旋. "A Study on Fire Protection and Fighting in Cultural Heritages." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gtxm4d.
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碩士中央警察大學
消防科學研究所
99
In recent years, many important domestic and international Heritage and historic building have taken place in building fire. There is not any code or regulation to regulate fire protection systems for historical buildings in Taiwan. In addition, some buildings are planned to be re-used for some occupancies with fire risk. Therefore, the response for the fires in historical buildings becomes an important issue. This study focuses on the domestic 11 heritage and historical buildings as objects of fire, and foreign disaster such as "Namdaemun Fire" in South Korea and "Windsor Castle fire" in British. To explore the heritage and historic buildings in the cases of fire and what are the main issues? Cases for domestic disaster site for historic buildings to the implementation of site investigation, firefighters on the implementation of heritage managers and Qualitative interviews. Discussion of risk assessment methods to improve fire safety management system can improve the fire performance of heritage and hestoric buildings. The results showed that managers and firefighters in historic pre-disaster prevention, early response, disaster preparedness and disaster when the property protection and restoration for both for improvement. By way of mutual assistance and cooperation to effectively enhance the heritage when the fire protection.
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Wang, Chih-Peng, and 王志鵬. "Preparedness of Water Supply Source for Fire Fighting Following Earthquakes." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8b2ajb.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
土木與防災研究所
101
When an earthquake occurs,the ground shake violently. Fire is the most serious second disaster after earthquake. An earthquake not only damages many underground pipelines but also causes fires in the first time. Firemen are in the trouble that water sources are not available. It makes rescue more and more difficult. Thus, the study collected several cases about rescue and associate legislation with water source the United States, Japan and 921 Earthquake in Taiwan for arrangement of fire water supply and analyzes the information. The study designed questionnaire to survey fireman’s opinion. Those analyses are using SPSS, reliability and validity, frequency distribution and intersection analysis. The results showed that: 1. Natural and artificial water sources should match each other and build multiple water sources. 2. Fire department should strengthen pumping protocols in rivers and lakes to prevent that water in hydrant from unavailable. 3. Firemen dislike arranging long fire hose but recognize water supply training about pump together with fire hose. 4. Plan rescue line after earthquake and survey refugee’s electric power use. 5. Various fire water sources information should digitized in GPS and could find water sources position as soon as possible when fire fires. 6. Fire department should organize the village and li as autonomy rescue organization and build the reservoir as the initial water sources after fire fires. The study could provide fire department a reference in multiple water sources and training.
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Wen-Hsiang, Tsai, and 蔡文祥. "STUDY ON CROSS-STRAIT FIRE FIGHTING AND DISASTER RELIEF SYSTEM." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ca9dt7.
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碩士國立中正大學
戰略暨國際事務研究所
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ABSTRACT Due to the “El Niño” phenomenon dramatically caused the abnormal global weather and incessant natural disasters worldwide. Moreover, the frequency, scale, and damage of such disaster have become more frequent and serious that we human beings live under agitate and fearful state. Those disasters such as: typhoon, earthquake, tsunami, torrential rain, cold wave, hail, foehn etc. are natural disasters. Taiwan is situated at the subtropics of Asia and is on Pacific Rim earthquake belt that it is often attacked by natural disasters like typhoon, torrential rain, drought, cold wave and earthquake. As a result, it caused serious damage whenever there was strong typhoon or earthquake. Those disasters are unavoidable and unpreventable so the only and best thing to do is to prepare for the worst before the disaster and the relief after the disaster. Being one of the residents on earth, though it is impossible to prevent the natural disaster from happening, the arrangement for prevention and guidance, exercise, and relief equipment before the disaster and the salvage, emergency planning and dispatch after the disaster are possible and we shall pay more attention to study how to prevent, prepare and rescue the disaster, in the hope to reduce the loss and damage to the minimum. When significant disaster such as: earthquake, flood, typhoon, etc, happened, the cause of loss of human lives and properties is tremendous and it covers a wide area. It is difficult and hard to collect all the manpower and relief equipments to rescue the damage at once, which is no different from an assignment of mission impossible. When it comes to us, we need the support and relief of commodity from our neighboring countries to reduce the casualties and financial loss. Among the neighboring countries of Taiwan, mainland China is the closest, plus people of China speaks the same language as we do that it is more efficient and convenient no matter it is on disaster relief or verbal communication. For such reasons, China and Taiwan shall lift the political barrier and reinforce the mutual cooperation and exchange on disaster relief. Besides, study the way of the existing fire fighting and disaster relief system and find a way for mutual assistance for cross-strait disaster relief. In this way, whenever there is significant disaster happened on either side of the strait, it is possible to reduce the loss and damage of the disaster to the minimum and to guarantee and protect the lives and property of the people of the two nations and assure the welfare for the people cross-strait. Keyword：Fire control Disaster rescue Cross-strait cooperation Relief a system
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Lian, He-Ji, and 連和吉. "A Study on Business Models of the Fire-Fighting Industry." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86538288301392006692.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
土木工程與防災科技研究所
95
In this study, after further interviews with some subjects, a questionnaire survey was conducted on company owners or high-rank managers of four types of organizations in the fire-fighting industry: fire-fighting engineering companies, professional institutions of fire-fighting inspection, fire-fighting equipment vendors, and fire protection engineer consultant companies.The questionnaire was designed based on the Balance Scorecard, covering four aspects: finance, customer, internal process, and learning/growth. Totally 586 questionnaires were sent and 68 valid samples were returned with a return rate of 11.6%. The questionnaire results were statistically analyzed using SPSS for ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation analysis. This study found that (1) nearly 40% of the responding samples are less than 40 years old, indicating a tendency of young managers/company owners in the fire-fighting industry; (2) the after-tax net profit rates of these organizations are mostly around 5% to 10%; (3) in ensuring customer loyalty, these organizations focus mostly on their “professional know-how” (89.3%) and “reasonable prices” (80.9%); (4) the major reason for their customer churn is “price cutting by competitors; (5) the scale developed in this study measuring the operating performance of organizations in the fire-fighting industry has a reliability of more than 80% in each aspect, and is therefore usable for future research; (6) among the four types of organizations, their operating performance is not significantly correlated with their business types but correlated with their company sizes. Further research is needed to find out the factors influencing their operating performance. According to the above-mentioned findings, a company in the fire-fighting industry should construct its internal assets to fulfill the goal of its operation policies, and also reinforce its technology R&D and innovation to meet the current market needs.
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Sun, Ching-Yung, and 孫清源. "A Research on Fire-fighting Monitoring and Control Information System." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40905368252771946051.
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碩士南華大學
資訊管理學系碩士班
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Abstract In order to protect the life and properties of people, the fire-fighting control and management becomes more and more important these days. At present, all kinds of places that have been set up the fire-fighting equipments in accordance with “The Set-up Standard of Fire-fighting Equipment of All kinds of Places” issued by the government only have independent intact functions. There are no combined control and intact data records. When there is fire, laymen can only respond by phone or through automatic pronunciation warning system. Fire brigade can only transfer and read the relevant data of a fire scene with artificial still when a fire is reported. Actions are usually delayed for putting off the fire. The purpose of this study is to construct a PC-based fire-fighting monitoring and control information system. When the fire is detected and the data is send to the control computer by RDACM（Remote Data Acquisition and Control Modules ）, the area and position picture where the fire alarm took place will be shown on the monitor, and the relevant fire-fighting equipments will be activated in the meantime. Also at the same time it can automatically report a fire through the internet. The control computer of the commanding center can search the position picture, the structure chart of fire-fighting equipments and basic data of this place from the database in receiving the fire message. And then it conveys the information to a portable computer of the fighting truck through wireless internet, thus supported the fire brigade reference of putting off the fire. This system is not only suitable for building control administrative staff of building for fire control but also can automatically offering the fire scene data to the commanding center immediately and thus reduces the loss of people''s lives and properties.
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LI, CHIA-YING, and 李佳穎. "The Location Problem of The Forest Fire Fighting by Helicopter." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74688356939969374134.
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碩士開南大學
空運管理學系碩士班
95
This study attempts to establish a mathematic model through which, the flying time between the helicopter bases and the platforms, where personnel and resources are delivered, and the quantities of the resources (including the number of helicopters) are calculated for the optimum distribution between the locations. P-median method was applied to the analysis of the cases of the forest-fire incidents affecting over 5 hectares in Taiwan between 1990 and 2006. All the calculations were accomplished through LINGO program. The results indicated that the most efficient scenario: nine heavy helicopters should be stationed respectively at RCFN, which renders the quickest delivery of services to the areas of fire incidents. This model is intended to contribute to the references for the forest-fire control departments and organizations in related decision-making.