Tactical Consideration: Follow the Rules of Live-Fire Training

UL FSRI Advisory Board member Sean DeCrane presents a Tactical Consideration Derived from FSRI research: Follow the Rules of Live-Fire Training.

For more information check out our FEMA/DHS project, Study of the Fire Service Training Environment: Safety, Fidelity, and Exposure, where we conducted research to quantify the fire dynamics associated with live-fire training.

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This series of videos will bring you tactical considerations from firefighter research and will feature members of the UL FSRI team and Advisory Board.

A Tactical Consideration is an evidence based concept for the fire service to consider implementing into their department to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and increase knowledge to accomplish their mission. With all of the measurements made during UL FSRI experiments as well as the vast experience of our project technical panels, several consistent themes have emerged that may be helpful to the fire service. Each of these themes is packaged as a tactical consideration with supporting text and visuals.

The application of tactical considerations depends upon many factors such as:

building structure and geometry
capabilities and resources available to the first responding fire department
availability of mutual aid
There is no silver bullet tactic for structure fires and these considerations are meant to increase the knowledge of the fire service and to be incorporated into training and procedures, if deemed applicable.