- Author
- Levine, R. S.
- Title
- Navy Fire Fightrer Trainers. BFRL Video Seminar.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Video, July 16, 1991,
- Keywords
- fire fighters | fire fighting training
- Abstract
- Effective firefighting on Navy ships is of obvious importance. However, because of the large numbers of personnel to train, and because of the close supervision necessary to do so safely, most enlistees have had only one "hot training" session in a three year hitch. The Navy is developing a series of trainers, fired with propane gas, designed to furnish realistic, safe, hot training on the average of once per year per seaman. The Navy technology is being employed commercially for civilian Fire Fighter Trainers. BFRL is playing two roles. The first concerns measurement of environmental parameters in the trainers with special attention to those that affect safety. These include temperatures, radiant fluxes from the fires, air composition (O2, CO2, CO, and the minor constituents), and flow rates. The second role is to utilize the capabilities resident in BFRL and in other parts of NIST to help the Navy solve development problems as they arise. This expertise has been of significant value in solving these problems. The seminar will be "introduced" by a few words from Mr. Francis Brannigan, who set up the first U.S. Navy fire fighter program, during WW II.