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Identifying Safety Hazards on a Preplan
One of the things that is often lacking in preplans is identifying safety hazards. There are ways to show hazards to both firefighters and civilians on the preplan diagram. A proposal for showing safety hazards is to use a consistent … Continue reading
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Standpipe Identification
One challenges that firefighter sometimes face is identifying which fire department connection is available. In many cases fire department connections may be buried in bushes, mislabeled, or in disrepair. Another challenge may also telling apart which FDC is a standpipe … Continue reading
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Mapping Fire Department Data
One of the common concerns that fire departments have when it comes to mapping is “I collect all of this data in RMS, how do I map it?” This is a common concern with many fire departments, especially those that … Continue reading
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3 D Mapping using Google Earth and Sketchup
There are a few scripts that can be downloaded from the ArcScripts website that create KML files that can be read in Google Earth and eventually ArcExplorer-ArcGIS. SketchUp is a 3d graphics program that can import building footprint information and … Continue reading
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