Changing The Way Fires Are Fought, Forever
Although the twin towers had been designed with many of the current fire safety and protection measures in place the designers were not prepared for the days events.
Firefighters are tested to their limits when tackling a fire, entering a high rise building is the most challenging evacuation and prevention process they can encounter.
Numerous elements of tower blocks prevent fighters to act confidently in an emergency, within high rise buildings it is extremely difficult to predict the activity of a fire, often escape routes are not adequate for the volume of individuals within the building and the physical strain on the crews is extreme.
On 9/11 the main fire was more than 1000 feet above the ground where the firefighters assessed the activity and best method to extinguish and evacuate.
With such an unpredictable situation it is very difficult to determine the best action, on September 11 2001, 343 firefighters lost their lives.
The unpredictable occurrence of both towers tumbling to the ground caused great shock worldwide encouraging individuals to attempt to find methods to prevent such an event in future.
One of these individuals is Jose Torero the head of the new Edinburgh Centre in Fire Safety Engineering.
Born in Lima, Peru, and with vast qualifications in fire safety engineering Jose Torero now believes that he has designed a system that could change the way fires are fought forever.
Jose's system is called FIREGRID, a system which determines the emergency situation and potential progression of the fire.
Firegrid is said to prevent firefighters being put into such unpredictable dangerous situations and provides analysis of the emergency prior to entry to help keep our firefighters safer.
Firegrid immediately collects data from the source of the emergency with continuous relay to an 'emergency response system'.
Simulation tools then predict the progression of the fire and its impact on its surroundings including the building within which it is contained.
From this information Firegrid can predict the amount of time firefighters have before a building is considered unsafe and collapses.
Jose is presenting his system globally in the hope it may be put into use to prevent future fatalities of our fire crews.
For further information please visit www.firegrid.org
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