Robots Against Firefighters

Many fire service personnel that have fifteen or twenty years of service have seem many things change over time. One radical change is the way fires consume structures today when compared structures years ago, these fires have be classified as modern and legacy fires. When responding to a modern construction fire versus a legacy fire, does it change how we fight these fires? Well the answer to that is simply yes! Modern construction physiognomies have greatly changed to accommodate the comfort of the homeowner, which is not firefighter friendly. In modern construction home the floor plans are larger in size to give more living space. As the living spaces grow the footprint of the residence increases as well. As the word modern leads to occupants thinking comfort, when truthfully causes disadvantageous consequences for the fire service with open geometrics, new construction materials, and also include an increased fire load. All these construction advantages only lead to faster propagation of the fire, as well decreases the amount of time for a flashover to occur. Modern construction has led to hasty changes in fire dynamics, which at the same time decreases the amount of time to escape to safety. The structural collapse time is greater since the amount of time as been lessened

Disasters like earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes happen almost everyday. It takes help from first responders to get those in the disaster area to safety. But this puts the lives of who perform rescue missions at risk as well. In the November 2014 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, Davey Alba’s article, “A Robot for Any Disaster,” is unsuccessful in convincing the readers of this idea through the limited use of pathos and redundant use of logos.

This paper explores the different aspects in living a firefighter’s life. The topics that will be covered are the various types of technology when being a fireman, the different tactics you see on a day to day basis, the physical abilities one must be capable of, and the types of equipment used. The technology used today to help fight fires is extremely progressed and different than it was even just ten years ago. If it were not for these new inventions, communication would not be as easy and complex for any fire station. Firemen face different obstacles every day and have to be ready to jump right in with whatever the circumstance may be. Tactics such as

Safety should one of the main concerns of the United States people. Dallas law enforcement has found just that for us. By using the robot back in June, the Dallas force has opened up a window of opportunity to make our nation safer. According to Fox news, Chief David Brown stated, “We had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect. We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device

Did you know that the earliest form of firefighting took place in Rome in 24 B.C? After almost being destroyed by unruly conflagrations, Rome created a fire department consisting of about 7,000 paid firefighters. Their fire crews responded to and fought fires, and also patrolled the streets with the authority to fine anyone who disobeyed the fire prevention codes (Hashgan). The major piece of firefighting equipment the Roman's used was the bucket, which was passed from hand to hand to deliver water to the fire. Additionally, they used an ax, which was utilized to remove the fuel and prevent the spread of fire, as well as to make openings that would allow heat and smoke to escape a burning building.

The change to engineered lumber also means less wood to burn resulting structure collapse much sooner, risking the lives of unaware firefighters. In addition to building techniques, improved technologies have also given rise to many engineered materials that replace traditional materials found in home furnishings such as cotton and wool. Today, homes are constructed and filled with furnishings that have a petroleum base such as plastics and polycarbonates. These engineered materials burn many times hotter and faster than traditional building materials or what is considered legacy furnishings. In an experiment conducted at the NIST laboratory, two same size rooms, filled with matching furnishings. One room was filled with modern home furnishings while the second room was filled with furnishings made of cotton, wool, and solid lumber. Both rooms were ignited simultaneously, the modern room burned rapidly and flashed over in approximately eight minutes whereas the legacy room took twenty minutes to reach flashover. When we consider the length of time to call 911, take the call, dispatch units, drive to the scene, tag a hydrant and pull a line most likely takes longer than eight minutes, the timing until flashover is critical for victims and firefighters. Additionally, there is a significant difference in temperatures generated between the modern and legacy rooms. The legacy room high temperature reached approximately four hundred degrees before

Singer describes Iraq operations as they were being performed in 2008 with the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. “The Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD, teams were tasked with defeating this threat, roving about the battlefield to find and defuse the IEDs before they could explode and kill.” 3 Robots such as Packbot and Talon were used to disarm IEDs which save lives of Soldiers and civilians. The proliferation of technology in the battlefield can be seen in today’s combat environment on the ground, sea and air and will continue to grow. He states that “man’s monopoly of warfare is being broken” because digital weapons such as Packbot, Talon, SWORDS, Predator, Global Hawk and many others are a “sign” that “we are entering the era of robots of war.” 4 He supports his theory of the proliferation of technology in weapons by looking at industry growth by providing quantifiable data of rapid growth in industry to meet demands. As he states “in 1999, there were nine companies with federal contracts in homeland security. By 2003, there were 3,512. In 2006, there were 33,890.” 5 Mr. Singer then provides a history of robots, trends, and what we can expect in the future. The book also provides a glimpse of what the author believes can be expected on future battlefields and changes that he thinks U.S. policy makers and military leaders need to address. Some of the changes that can be affected concern law of war, robots role in war, level of robot authority to fight wars and robot

The fire shelter is a personal protective device designed to be used by wildland firefighters in the United States. These shelters have been in use since the 1960’s , and since their first introduction into standard wildland firefighter equipment, they have saved over 300 lives and prevented serious injuries to countless others [IWFC-Anderson]. The shelters are easily carried and easily deployed by firefighters as a last resort to protect against heat injury if they find themselves in an emergency situation.

A fire truck also known as a fire apparatus, fire engine, or fire appliance, is a specific vehicle designed primarily for firefighting. Many organizations employ fire engines for various other uses including EMS, hazmat, auto extrication and technical rescue. Its main roles include transporting firefighters, along with a supply of water and a full complement of equipment. The fire truck the early times fires were put out by throwing buckets of water into the fire, but the dangers and the slow process made this method not last long before a new invention took over, the hand pump (Betts). However, just like he buckets this method didn’t last long before the first fire engine was invented in the early 1800’s. The first fire engines were usually

Firefighter equipment is constructed of some of the most high tech material that has been created in order to keep the firefighter as safe as possible. Constantly new items are made that are proven to be better than the last. Their equipment protects them from a lot. They are equipped with oxygen to breathe when in a smoky building; they have extremely large knee pads to crawl on the ground with because smoke rises so that is where the visibility is the best; they have coats and pants to protect them from the heat and also to help prevent them from getting cut on any sharp materials they may encounter; they have steel toed boots so if anything drops they won’t get hurt; and they have helmets to protect their heads. However, even though it seems like everything is perfect some equipment can use some tweaking.

Inability to dissipate the heat is detrimental to the fire-fighter’s health and can result in heat-related illnesses, including heat stroke and may contribute towards sudden cardiac events.

The fires that blazes through a house isn't going to put out itself. It's these train individuals that protect us from the flames. In a way Firefighters are our real hero's. They go into the face of danger that most people wouldn’t dare to go, they save so many lives by putting their lives at risk just to save a stranger. These are the actions of a heroes and without firefighters fires would be our end. Fires would spread and continued to spread killing everything in its path. Humans won't be the only ones effected with this animals would die too. To us humans forest fires is this unstable force of nature, for the animals in the forest fires are the most deadly weapon to fear. Forest fires are quick and fire spreading happens quickly most of

The reason why these people had invented these fire fighting robots was to help the people get to fires easier if they're really bad because some people can not get so close if the fire is too hot it will burn the people so the people invented the robots to get close and make it a lot easier to put out the fires. These robots can be worth up to millions just because of all the technology takes to build one of these robots some could be very difficult and some could be a lot more simple than others. There is this one robot that the navy seal us it is 5 feet tall and 10 inches it is a size of a normal human it is very high technology. This robot helps protect the sea from any fires and helps the Navy. this machine

The replacement extinguishant, Agent H3 was tested by SFP under controlled conditions which simulated a bulk load cargo fire inside a compartment with a volume of 58m3. The effectiveness of Agent H3 was constantly monitored through thermocouples and data loggers. It’s efficiency as a fire suppressant was based on two criterion set by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), the temperature acceptance criterion and the maximum time/temp criterion, with the outcome of a lower result being more effective. These results would then be compared with the known results of Halon 1301 being subjected to the same tests.

This robot will be a ground-based robot and feel could base design on robots used for explosive ordinance disposal. Something similar in design to the Micro Tactical