Trade Articles

Included on this page are several articles of interest to emergency responders, written by the staff of Fire Planning Associates and our friends for your education and use.

If you would like to submit an article for distribution on this page, please contact us. We're especially interested in personal experiences as they relate to preplanning.

Smaller pieces may end up in our newsletter as well.

Unfamiliar Territory

By Greg Jakubowski (Fire Rescue, Feb 2006)

Hazards and Tactics for Industrial Fires

Blazemark Review

from Fire Rescue magazine, Sep 2007

"...After testing Blazemark myself, I can report that the company's claims about the software aren't just hype. I took a predetermined data set and created a preplan using the software's easy plug-ins. Blazemark really works and it's definitely user-friendly."

Fire Service Features of Buildings and Fire Protection Systems

Free publication for distribution to architects, engineers, and municipal officials

A new publication offered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that will help increase the safety of building occupants and emergency responders by streamlining fire service interaction with building features and fire protection systems. This is an excellent document for fire marshals and building officials to share with architects and engineers. FPA Principal and Chief Engineer Greg Jakubowski was one of the technical reviewers of this document.

Jekyll & Hyde Fires

from FireRescue Magazine, November 2006. Author - Greg Jakubowski

Hazards and tactics of fighting laboratory fires.

How to Conduct Live Fire Training Article

from Fire Engineering, June 2005 co-author Bart Krauss

Find out how to do "Acquired Structure Burns' safely in this article. Upper Makefield Fire Co. has done a great job of getting three homes "donated" to the fire company. This is the smallest of the homes, the two others were 7000 sq ft and 14,000 sq ft.