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Fact Sheets

Fire Fighter Safety and Deployment of Resources Toolkit

High-Rise Field Experiments

Tasks

Getting the Fire Out

Crew Size

Search and Rescue on the Fire Floor

Tenability of the Fire Floor

Residential Field Experiments

Fire Size Faced by Different Crew Sizes at Time of Suppression

How Crew Size Affects Laddering and Ventilation Time For Low Hazard Residential Structure Fire

The NIST Report on Residential Structure Fire

How Firefighter Crew Size Relates to Occupant Exposure to Toxins

The Effect of Firefighter Crew Size on Time to Complete Essential Fire Fighting Tasks

Physiological Effects of Firefighter Crew Size

How Crew Size Affects Time to Apply Water to a Fire