NIST cherry road CD incorporated into Command School curriculum. (News Briefs).Command School is a 3 day training symposium sponsored by the International Association of Fire Chiefs The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) is a network of more than 12,000 chief fire and emergency officers.[1] The Association was established in 1873.[1] The Executive Director is Mark W. Light. for fire department officers. The objective of the course is to improve fire incident command strategies to reduce firefighter deaths. The Command School instructors developed a presentation utilizing the NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. produced CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , Simulation of the Dynamics of the fire at 3146 Cherry Road NE, Washington, DC, May 30, 1999, NISTIR NISTIR National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency Report NISTIR National Institute of Standards and Technology Internal Report 6510. Two NIST models, the Fire Dynamics Simulator and Smokeview, were used to simulate a townhouse fire that claimed the lives of two Washington D.C. firefighters. Approximately 2000 fire officers attend Command School each year. Through support from the U.S. Fire Administration, each student will receive a copy of NISTIR 6510 on CD-ROM. CONTACT: Dan Madrzykowski, (301) 975-6677; daniel.madrzykowski@nist.gov. |
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