Coordinated Fire Attack

In partnership with Firehouse Magazine, UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute (FSRI) publishes results of a multi-year project designed to increase the understanding of suppression and ventilation tactics to improve firefighter safety and effectiveness.

The UL FSRI team conducted 40 full-scale, live-fire experiments in residential and commercial acquired structures that included single-family homes, apartments within multi-family dwellings and units within a strip mall—all of which were slated for demolition. The goal of this supplement is to provide insight into the key findings from the experiments, which are detailed in the following three technical reports:

1. Analysis of the Coordination of Suppression and Ventilation in Single-Family Homes 
2. Analysis of the Coordination of Suppression and Ventilation in Multi-Family Dwellings 
3. Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Ventilation on Strip Mall Fires