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apartment building was involved with
heavy smoke and fire. Police at the
scene informed crews that residents
were evacuating through windows at
the rear of the structure.
Crews pulled a hose line and began
securing a water supply for incoming units. After a walk-around of the
structure by incident command, the
crew from the first-arriving engine was
informed that multiple rescues needed
to be performed at the rear, where
residents were jumping from first and
second floor windows. Incident command issued a request for additional
resources to report to the scene.
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up an elevated master stream for fire
institutions
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residential
attack at the front and began to sweep
control systems for commercial, industrial and residential properties in
with NFPA standards. The HASS family can save you time and money as it
the building to knock down theaccordance
main
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haswith
for thousands
of others in over 50 countries since 1976.
body of fire. Firefighters working
time and money as it has for thousands of others in over 50 countries
evacuated residents began moving
since 1976.
them away from the structure to a
parking lot, where paramedics estabThe leader in computer software for the design and analysis of sprinkler
lished a triage for injury victims.
leader
in computer
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systems.
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and JOB
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When conditions permitted entry, a
analysis of sprinkler systems. Now includes HASS HOUSE and JOB
Darcy Weisbach, Hammer, System Volume, Gradient and many other helpful utilities.
search team began a primary search
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of apartment units on the first Available
floor,
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working its way to the second floor
English (English and Metric units) and Spanish (Metric units) versions.
after finding no victims. The team
discovered a deceased victim in one of
Computer software for calculating two phase flow for high pressure and
the second floor units at the side of the
software
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flow units) in
low pressure
CO2 systems Computer
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and Metric
building. A second victim was found
on
for high pressure and low pressure CO2 systems with English or
accordance
with NFPA and SOLAS standards. Now includes JOB COST ESTIMATOR
a secondary search of the first floor
by
Spanish text (English and Metric units) in accordance with NFPA
a newly arriving search team. for quick CO2 system installation cost calculations.
and SOLAS standards. Now includes JOB COST ESTIMATOR for
All crews started extinguishing hot
quick CO2 system installation cost calculations.
spots and began overhaul of the strucFast accurate way to calculate residential sprinkler systems in
ture while medical personnel treated
injury victims and began transporting
accordance with NFPA 13, 13D Fast
and accurate
13R. way to calculate residential sprinkler
them to the hospital.
systems in accordance with NFPA 13, 13D and 13R.
Reports indicated that two residents
suffered fatal smoke inhalation injuQuickly develops sprinkler system cost estimates
ries and that a third died as a result
sprinkler system cost
entry or quickly generated Quickly
grid ordevelops
tree systems.
of trauma. It is not clear if the from
third direct data estimates
from direct data entry or quickly generated grid or tree systems.
victim died at the scene or at the hospital. Five other residents experienced
unspecified non-fatal injuries.
Investigators determined that the fire
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started in a first floor apartment in the
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center of the building, where a resident
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victim woke up after bed linens caught
fire. The fire then spread to the floor,
igniting other combustibles.

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