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Action Plan of Security Service against a Fire case in a Tall Building Event (경호행사시 초고층건물 화재 대응방안)

  • Son, Kyung-Hwan
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.39
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    • pp.37-61
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    • 2014
  • Nowadays the world is threatened because of terrors that take aim at Soft-Targets available and easy to access to the people rather than more secured Hard-Targets. The inspection department of the Presidential Security Service develops and acts a perfect safety plan wherever the President stays so that it is possible to get immediate actions for various contingencies. Some events, in which the President take part, could be held in a lower or higher store in a tall building. Additional to the routine work at this case it is to emphasize on a plan of fire precaution to check the spot and respond to a real fire situation, so that the damage could be minimized. First, the agents of the President Security Service should possess basic knowledge concerning to the fire accidents and be trained on their manuals, even in a busy events plan. An organization, whatever it is, could be improved in that it tries to develop not only the personal abilities, but also education programs of the organization continually. And enhanced abilities of the members lead to the driving force for the advance. The knowledge of fire accident should be able to adapt to the real situation. Second, related to the event, it should be cooperated with the relevant departments, so that it is possible to conduct and control the system. It is urgently required to know that the security event could not be done perfectly with only one part or department. Third, from the time of recognizing of the event it is necessary for the fire department to get an action plan with fire fighting measures, evacuation measures based of the instructions given by the Security Service. Fourth, on the knowledge of the action plan of the fire department the Security Service should inspect the safety activities of the spot and establish the practical operation plan through the fire fighting and evacuation plan. Fifth, the Security Service should share final informations and plan of fire fighting in a high-rise building with the other relevant departments. If not, it could cause a great confusion that could lead to a great damage.

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A Study on Signal Improvement of Integrated fire fighting Prevention System (통합방재시스템의 신호처리에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Hye-Jin;Baek, Dong-Hyun;Son, Jong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.146-147
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    • 2013
  • 최근 건축물이 대형화, 복잡화, 초고층화가 되어감에 따라 건축물의 변화에 대해 발생하고 있는 재난 재해는 더욱 다양해지고 대형화되어 가고 있다. 이러한 건축물의 변화에 대해 소방시설은 통합네트워크시스템을 구축하고 있으나, 우리나라와 미국은 시스템은 개별업체가 하고 있지만 수신기의 상호 시스템통합은 협의하지 않고 독립적이며 일본은 공업회에서 전용프로토콜을 사용하고 있었다. 수신기와의 상호 신호 전송방식은 Polling Addressing/RS-485과 P-MAST Polling Addressing이었다. 타 시스템과의 신호 상호연동은 3개사 모두 Ethernet 연결하고 있었으나 2개사는 광변환장치를 사용하였고 1개사는 Ethernet를 사용하였다.

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A Study on the Improvement of Disaster and Safety Management for Local Cultural Heritages (지방문화재 재난안전관리 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Twe-Hwan;Kim, Jung-Gon;Been, Ju-Hee
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.358-366
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: This paper aims to clarify the problems and to examine the improvement methods by investigating the management condition of local-designated cultural property of which management is relatively poor in comparison with state-designated cultural heritage. Method: In order to grasp the management situation of the local-designated cultural heritage, a research on cultural heritage management situation and problems will be carried out with 35 cultual heritages in Goryeong-gun. Also, the improvement methods about the property type vulnerability on the basis of interview with cultual property managers, fire-fighting officers and civil servants, etc. Results: Local cultural heritages were investigated to be very vulnerable to the fire of wooden buildings, the theft of movable cultural heritages, and the effects of wind and water damage. It is because cultural heritages are scattered over wide areas fundamentally. As the result, it has difficulty in the patrols of police officers and fire fighters, and in the situation that it lacks disaster monitoring and CCTV for countermeasures to replace them, electronic security including fire hydrant, sensors, etc and fire extinguishing facilities and so on. It is difficult for local governments managing local-designated cultural heritages to enhance their management systems directly due to their lack of budget and manpower. Conclusion: In order to strengthen disaster and safety management system for the cultural heritages designated by local governments, they have to clarify disaster countermeasure task of fire fighting, police, and cultural heritage managers prepare their manuals, and systematize them through disaster drill mainly in local autonomous governments. Also, so as to establish a surveillance system every day, they have to enhance the community for local cultural heritage manage consisting of local volunteer fire departments, local voluntary disaster prevention organizations, volunteers, etc.

Analysis of the Relationship between Landform and Forest Fire Severity (지형과 산불피해도와의 관계 분석)

  • Lee, Byung-Doo;Won, Myoung-Soo;Jang, Kwang-Min;Lee, Myung-Bo
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.58-67
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    • 2008
  • Topography factors, as homeostasis variables at forest fire, affect the formation of fuel load patterns, atmospheric phenomena and forest fire behavior. Examination of the correlation between landforms and fire severity is important to decision making for fire hazard analysis and fighting strategies. In this study, fire severity was analyzed using Normalized Burn Ratio(NBR) derived from pre- and post-fire Landsat TM/+ETM images and landform were classified based on Topographic Position Index(TPI) in Samcheok(2000), Cheongyang(2002), and Yangyang(2005) forest fire regions. F-tests and Duncan's multi-range test between landform and fire severity showed that fire severities of headwater, high ridges, and upper slopes is higher than ones of local ridges, midslope ridges, and plains. Fire severity were more sensitive in coniferous forest than broadleaf forests.

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Construction Plan of Ground Fire Fighter Conduct Manual on Forest Fire Occurrence Site -Case Study on Ground Fire Fighter Team of National Forest Office- (산불현장 지상진화 행동매뉴얼 구축 방안 -국유림관리소 지상진화대원 업무를 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Si-Young;Lee, Myung-Woog
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2007
  • The manual was proposed for individual role, according to the stages of forest fire suppression at forest fire occurrence site, for forest fire crew who has a responsibility of national forest office. The scopes of this manual are (1) apply to initial attack before arriving helicopter, (2) apply to ground fire fighting support with air attack, (3) apply to mop-up after withdraw air attack, (4) apply to night suppression when air attack is impossible. This manual is arranged for incident commander or ground fire fighter duties from the 1st stage of acceptance of forest fire to the 10th stage of withdraw of helicopter. This was developed for the purpose of every awareness of the crews and therefore of fire reduction of damage of lives, properties and forest through systematic and rapid response to forest fire.

An Empirical Study on the Standard Re-establishment of Water Discharge Performance for the Fire Engine Pump (소방차 펌프의 방수성능 기준 재정립을 위한 실증적 연구)

  • Min, Se-Hong;Kwon, Yong-Joon
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.85-91
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    • 2012
  • This paper analyzed firefighting officers' use situations such as the use time, maximum working pressure, hose diameter, etc. of fire pumps at fire sites and carried out various performance tests by pressures, hose diameters and quantities of fire pumps based on its results because the waterproof performance criterion for a fire pump installed in a fire engine is different from the operation situations at the site and is not clearly prescribed. As a result of site survey, the site uses a higher pressure than the standard water discharge pressure (0.85 MPa) or the high-pressure water discharge pressure (1.4 MPa) prescribed by the approval Standard of the fire pump performance on fire truck. In addition, as a result of pump performance test, the discharged water flow rate, water discharge pressure, etc. was measured to be very different from the currently prescribed the approval standard depending on the hose diameter and firefighting nozzle, so the result of this study proposes a new standard.

An Improvement of Fire Safety Code for Rack-Type Warehouse in Korea (국내 랙크식 창고의 방화관련 규정 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Woon-Hyung;Lee, Young-Jae
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2014
  • Recently Amore pacific rack-type warehouse fire broke out and argue an urgent improvement of fire protection design code including automatic sprinkler and detection design. Various type of commodities have their unique fire characteristics from fire spread rate and heat lease rate and fire hazard depends on storage height, rack arrangement, aisle width, fire load etc. With increasing ceiling height for more storage space prevent effective water spray of sprinkler head, also delays detection time causes failure of early suppression. To achieve fire protection code performance of this occupancy, Major code articles relating to a classification of commodity, sprinkler system installation, detection and fire fighting are reviewed and suggested based on fire case analysis, code review between country and field survey.

Study on the Comparative Consideration of the Operative System of the Overseas Volunteer Fire Department (해외 의용소방대 활동의 운영체계 비교 고찰에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeong-Do;Lee, Si-Young
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2017
  • This research investigated the improvement plan for Korean Volunteer Fire Department through comparative consideration of overall operation system of Japanese and U.S. Volunteer Fire Department. For this, the researcher utilized descriptive approach according to documentary survey method including relevant academic essay, advanced research report, national institution publication, fire fighting-related books, textbook for new comers of Japanese fire department, and overseas training report, etc., and suggested an improvement plan for efficient operation of Korean Volunteer Fire Department. Research results are, first, enhance the community spirit of local community and establish of the status of Volunteer Fire Department. second, enlarge the scope of the work of Volunteer Fire Department to rescue, emergency medical services. third, organize task force team which is in charge of professional field education and training for Volunteer Fire Department. fourth, improve individual reward system and establishment of Volunteer Fire Department's identity and reinforce financial support. The researcher expects the research results can be utilized as the basic materials for the development of Korean Volunteer Fire Department, henceforth.

A Study on Fire Hazard Analysis and Smoke Flowing for the Semiconductor Manufacturing Process (반도체 제조공정의 연기유동에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Soo-Jin;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.197-211
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    • 2007
  • The power of semiconductor, Korea is continuously constructing semiconductor production line for keeping a front-runner status. however, studies and data about potential risks in semiconductor factory are still short. If fire does not initially suppressed, the fire causes a great damage. To decrease fire risk factors, in addition to fire fighting safety equipment, more important thing is how to design and construct fire protection system. The current fire protection codes about semiconductor factory come under functional law, and this law is short of consideration about particularity of factory. The existing prescriptive fire codes depending on experience compose without evident engineering verifications, thus equipments which is created by the current prescriptive fire code may bring about a variety of problems. For example, the design under the current regulation can not cope with the excessive investments, low efficiencies, and the diversifying construction designs and be applied to the quick changes of new technologies. Ergo, an optimal design for fire protection is to equip fire protection arrangements with condition and environment of production field. Manufacturing factory of semiconductors is a windowless airtight space. And for cleanliness, there exists strong flow of cooperation. Therefore, there is a need for fire safety design that meets the characteristic of a clean room. Accordingly, we are to derive smoke flow according to cooperation process within a clean room and construction plan of an optimal sensor system. In this study, in order to confirm the performance of proposed smoke-exhaust equipment and suggest efficient smoke exhaust device when there is a fire of 1MW of methane in the clean room of company H, we have implemented fire simulation using fluid dynamics computation.