Transcription of Fire Behavior Indicators and Fire Development
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CFBT-US, LLC Page 1 fire Development and fire Behavior Indicators Battalion Chief Ed Hartin, MS, EFO, MIFireE, CFO Introduction Building Factors, Smoke, Air Track, Heat, and Flame (B-SAHF) are critical fire Behavior Indicators . Understanding the Indicators is important, but more important is the ability to integrate these factors in the process of reading the fire as part of size-up and dynamic risk assessment.
Compartment fire development can be described as being comprised of four stages: incipient, growth, fully developed and decay (see Figure 1). Flashover is not a stage of development, but simply a rapid transition between the growth and fully developed stages. Figure 1. Fire Development in a Compartment
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