Wind Driven Fires

This online course is based on a collaborative research project between CFD, FDNY, NFPA, NYU-Poly and NIST. This use of fire modeling and live burn tests are used and presented as part of the NIST report. This course is based on NIST and other publications on the subject and is applicable to all Fire Service professionals at every rank. Objectives:

• Describe significant past wind driven fires
• Describe the need for proper size-up and recognition of a wind driven fire
• To examine the effect of wind on a fire incident in a single-story residential structure using a computational fluid dynamics model, the Fire Dynamics Simulator
• To simulate the fire conditions in the structure with and without wind to provide visualizations of the fire behavior
• Describe the use of wind control devices
• Describe strategic and tactical options when operating at a wind driven fire
• To improve the safety of fire fighters

If you are renewing a Fire Code Administrator, Fire Safety Inspector 1, Instructor 1, 2 or 3 certification with the Florida State Fire College and need to have your successful completion of the course submitted into FC DICE, please forward your FC DICE Student ID # to Bain.Gabrielle@spcollege.edu once you have completed your registration.