TRAINING SEMINARS
The staff at Fire and Life Safety Consulting, Inc. is dedicated to presenting informative courses in all aspects of fire safety. Lessons learned from 30 plus years of fire fighting, fire investigation and code enforcement provide practical and useful seminars to building and fire officials, architects and place of assembly professionals, (including information regarding crowd management) and others in need of training. Training in crowd management and the development of effective evacuation plans is particularly important for staff at night clubs and other locations where the potential for panic or inappropriate actions on the part of untrained staff, can lead to disasters. Lessons learned from previous night club fires, e.g. the Station Night Club Fire, will be covered in detail. These courses could be presented on-site or off-site:
Smoke Alarm Information
Night Clubs
Crowd Management
SMOKE DETECTOR NEWSPRINT/TV STORIES INVOLVING CHIEF JAY FLEMING
Could Flame Retardants in Furniture be Increasing the Fire Risk?
/could-flame-retardants-in-furniture-be-increasing-the-fire-risk
Investigative Bias Involving Smoke Alarms in Fatal Fires
/investigative-bias-involving-smoke-alarms-in-fatal-fires
RSET/ASET, a Flawed Concept for Fire Safety Assessment
/rsetaset-a-flawed-concept-for-fire-safety-assessment
How Many Lives Do Smoke Alarms Save?
/how-many-lives-do-smoke-alarms-save
Fire Expert Says Smoke Detectors a Factor in Fatal Barnum Fire
CT Post, Bridgeport CT, (01/02/2010).
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Fire-expert-says-smoke-detectors-a-factor-in-307157.php
Firefighters, Experts Debate Merits of Ionization vs. Photoelectric
Consumer Man, MSNBC. (11/18/2010)
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40240039/ns/business-consumer_news/t/what-you-need-know-about-smoke-alarms...
How Many Lives Do Smoke Alarms Really Save?
Freakonomics (02/06/2012)
http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/06/how-many-lives-do-smoke-alarms-really-save/
Push to Address Possible Danger in Smoke Detectors
City Limits Magazine, NY, NY (03/27/2013).
http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/4770/push-to-address-possible-danger-in-smoke-detectors
New Technology Bolsters Smoke Detectors
http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/12/21/new_technology_bolsters_smoke_dete...
Alarming – Most Smoke detectors Don’t detect deadly Smoke
The Hook, Charlottesville, VA 07/10/2008
The Hook - COVER- Alarming: Most smoke detectors don't detect deadly smoke (readthehook.net)
Fire Chief Sounds alarm on Smoke Detectors
David Gram, AP, San Francisco Chronicle, CA. 03/02/2008
Fire chiefs sound alarm on smoke detectors (sfgate.com)
Smoke Detectors Don’t All Work Alike
Eric Weslander, Lawrence Journal-World – KS. (10/08/2006)
Smoke detectors don’t all work alike | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas (ljworld.com)
More details about the Reserve Square fire that killed
Brett McDavid, Cleveland
Plain Dealer, 11/04/2008
Flawed' detectors pass the test
Sydney Morning Herald, AU (06/13/2013)
http://www.smh.com.au/national/flawed-detectors-pass-the-test-20130615-2oapv.html
Firefighters Say Ionization and Photoelectric Smoke Detectors are Safer Together
Claims Journal
March 3, 2008
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2008/03/03/87862.htm
Smoke detectors' alarming limits
Frank D. Roylance, Baltimore Sun March 4, 2008
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2008-03-04-0803040149-story.html
Alarms may fall short in flagging blazes
Toronto Globe and Mail (Canada) 03/06/2008
HTTPS://WWW.THEGLOBEANDMAIL.COM/LIFE/ALARMS-MAY-FALL-SHORT-IN-FLAGGING-BLAZES/ARTICLE17981396/
Firefighters push for safer smoke detectors
Portsmouth Herald (Maine)
HTTPS://WWW.SEACOASTONLINE.COM/STORY/NEWS/LOCAL/PORTSMOUTH-HERALD/2008/03/01/FIREFIGHTERS-PUSH-FOR-S...
Australians could die unnecessarily in house fires due to smoke alarm policies, claims senior US firefighter
ABC News Australia (07/27/2018)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-27/australians-could-die-in-house-fires-due-to-smoke-alarm-polic...
MINIMUM MANNING /UNION ARBITRATION STORIES
Arbitrator awards three person minimum staffing provision for Woburn fire fighters – One of the first awards in decades (07/16/13)
http://www.pylerome.com/recent/2013-07-16/arbitrator-awards-three-person-minimum-staffing-provision-...
State Labor Board Affirms Town of Scituate Had Obligation to Bargain Before Reducing Engine Staffing to One Fire Fighter
https://pylerome.com/node/404
IAFF Local 1839, PFFM DVP Reddy and Attorney Barrault Persuade Arbitrator To Increase Safe Staffing in Chelmsford (03/28/18)
https://pylerome.com/recent/2018-03-29/iaff-local-1839-pffm-dvp-reddy-and-attorney-barrault-persuade...
VIDEOS
An Alarming Failure Smoke Alarm Investigation Parts
News Channel 5 Investigates | Nashville, Tennessee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzenX7WXcgA
Boston Fire Department May Day Training Video
(McElroy Films) (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCvkRLtk-_w
An Alarming Failure Smoke Alarm Investigation Parts 1& 2,
News Channel 5 Investigates | Nashville, Tennessee, USA with Consumer Investigative Journalist, Jennifer Krause Published November 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzenX7WXcgA&t=466s
Silent Alarms
(W-5, CBC News, CTV- Canada)
Investigation to compare the response of ionization vs. photoelectric smoke detectors. (2000)
http://www.smokealarmwarning.org/tat1.html
