• Title/Summary/Keyword: fire-fighting

Search Result 488, Processing Time 0.023 seconds

A Study on the Current State and Improvement of Operation of Fire Investigation Teams (화재조사 실태 분석과 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Tae-Geun;Chae, Jong-Min
    • Journal of forensic and investigative science
    • /
    • v.1 no.1
    • /
    • pp.45-53
    • /
    • 2006
  • The purposes of fire investigation are to identify and analyze the causes of fire and, using the results in promoting fire fighting policies, ultimately to prevent fires caused by similar causes and to protect people's life and properties from fire. However, although the patterns of fire are getting more diverse and complicated with the rapid development of industry, complicated with the rapid development of industry, fire fighting organizations are continuing traditional superficial fire investigation without operating a fire investigation department for the reason of insufficient manpower, equipment and budget, losing public confidence. Thus, the present study purposed to propose plans to improve the technicality of fire investigation and win public confidence in fire investigation. First, the technicality of fire investigation should be improved by operating a department and personnel exclusively for fire investigation. Second, fire investigation should be more scientific and precise using high tech fire investigation equipment. Lastly, responsible fire fighting administration should be realized through statistical analysis of the causes of fire and computerization. The results of this study are expected to contribute to the safety and security of our society.

  • PDF

A Study on the Water Spray Distribution in Underground Culvert (공동구내 분무분포에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yeob-Rae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
    • /
    • v.4 no.3 s.14
    • /
    • pp.83-87
    • /
    • 2004
  • In underground culvert are established main and basic facilities for electric power, communication, gas and heating pipe etc. In the future the use of underground culvert will be enlarged and the peril of fire will be increased. Thus it is necessary to make a general plan to prevent fire. The skills to prevent fire in underground culvert will be accumulated by the spray distribution of the nozzle and domestic skills in fire fighting will be upgraded. It will also contribute to the construction of common small fire fighting system suitable to the domestic surrounding and the growth of domestic skills for fire fighting and disaster prevention.

Developing the Mobile GIS System Using CDMA Networking - Case Study of Forest Fire Ground Fighting Team - (CDMA 데이터망을 이용한 Mobile GIS 시스템 개발 - 산불발생시 지상진화대원 업무를 사례로 -)

  • Jo, Myung-Hee;Lee, Myung-Bo;Jo, Yun-Won;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Shin, Dong-Ho
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.21 no.1 s.65
    • /
    • pp.60-68
    • /
    • 2007
  • In order to guide the safe extinguishment duty of forest fire ground fighting team and acquire its exact location information in case of a large scale of forest fire, it is very important to monitor the real time coordination data the forest fire ground fighting team. In this study the guidance for safe extinguishment duty of forest fire ground fighting team could be provided by monitoring the current location information and moving route information, which are received form GPS through CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access).

A Study on the Development of AI-Based Fire Fighting Facility Design Technology through Image Recognition (이미지 인식을 통한 AI 기반 소방 시설 설계 기술 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Gi-Tae Nam;Seo-Ki Jun;Doo-Chan Choi
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
    • /
    • v.18 no.4
    • /
    • pp.883-890
    • /
    • 2022
  • Purpose: Currently, in the case of domestic fire fighting facility design, it is difficult to secure highquality manpower due to low design costs and overheated competition between companies, so there is a limit to improving the fire safety performance of buildings. Accordingly, AI-based firefighting design solutions were studied to solve these problems and secure leading fire engineering technologies. Method: Through AutoCAD, which is widely used in existing fire fighting design, the procedures required for basic design and implementation design were processed, and AI technology was utilized through the YOLO v4 object recognition deep learning model. Result: Through the design process for fire fighting facilities, the facility was determined and the drawing design automation was carried out. In addition, by learning images of doors and pillars, artificial intelligence recognized the part and implemented the function of selecting boundary areas and installing piping and fire fighting facilities. Conclusion: Based on artificial intelligence technology, it was confirmed that human and material resources could be reduced when creating basic and implementation design drawings for building fire protection facilities, and technology was secured in artificial intelligence-based fire fighting design through prior technology development.

ICT Medical Service Provider's Knowledge and level of recognizing how to cope with fire fighting safety (ICT 의료시설 기반에서 종사자의 소방안전 지식과 대처방법 인식수준)

  • Kim, Ja-Sook;Kim, Ja-Ok;Ahn, Young-Joon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
    • /
    • v.9 no.1
    • /
    • pp.51-60
    • /
    • 2014
  • In this study, ICT medical service provider's level of knowledge fire fighting safety and methods on coping with fires in the regions of Gwangju and Jeonam Province of Korea were investigated to determine the elements affecting such levels and provide basic information on the manuals for educating how to cope with the fire fighting safety in medical facilities. The data were analyzed using SPSS Win 14.0. The scores of level of knowledge fire fighting safety of ICT medical service provider's were 7.06(10 point scale), and the scores of level of recognizing how to cope with fire fighting safety were 6.61(11 point scale). level of recognizing how to cope with fire fighting safety were significantly different according to gender(t=4.12, p<.001), age(${\chi}^2$=17.24, p<.001), length of career(${\chi}^2$=22.76, p<.001), experience with fire fighting safety education(t=6.10, p<.001), level of subjective knowledge on fire fighting safety(${\chi}^2$=53.83, p<.001). In order to enhance the level of understanding of fire fighting safety and methods of coping by the ICT medical service providers it is found that: self-directed learning through avoiding the education just conveying knowledge by lecture tailored learning for individuals fire fighting education focused on experiencing actual work by developing various contents emphasizing cooperative learning deploying patients by classification systems using simulations and a study on the implementation of digital anti-fire monitoring system with multipoint communication protocol, a design and development of the smoke detection system using infra-red laser for fire detection in the wide space, video based fire detection algorithm using gaussian mixture mode developing an education manual for coping with fire fighting safety through multi learning approach at the medical facilities are required.

Study on Reality of Field Practice and Improvements by Students of Dep. of Emergency Medical Technology (응급구조과 학생 현장실습의 실제와 개선방안 연구)

  • Kwon, Hayrran
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
    • /
    • v.6 no.1
    • /
    • pp.15-26
    • /
    • 2002
  • As a result of analyzing problems in field practice and its effects, the following conclusions can be obtained. Man students were more satisfied with their choice of this department than woman students and woman students recognized the importance of hospital practice although they felt the need of fire fighting station practice and man students felt the necessity of hospital practice, but they answered the fire fighting station practice was important. Departments of field practice are emergency and nurse departments in hospitals and emergency aid section in fire fighting stations. And it is found that field practice was performed well in relation to major subject. Areas of practice included emergency room, operation room and extensive cure unit and the experience of ambulance was more in fire fighting station than in hospital. Clinical guidance of professor was preferred to once a week and the students answered they felt satisfaction with practice through conference. Answer that field practice was helpful in understanding class was very high as 96.8% and its connection with employment was low as 12.8%. It is found that a proper timing of field practice was winter vacation for hospital practice after completing the second semester of the first year and summer vacation for fire fighting station practice after the first semester of the second year. The most difficult department in field practice was nurse department in hospital because 'respondents were practice students' and administrative department in fire fighting stations because 'they lacked recognition of paramedic'. In making practice diary, 'describing measure results' was difficult most and the respondents wanted to keep the diary in their custody.

  • PDF

Survey of the Life Expectancy Management of Fire Products (소방용품 내용연수 관리실태 조사 분석)

  • Park, In-Seon;Baek, Chang Sun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.30 no.2
    • /
    • pp.133-140
    • /
    • 2016
  • Currently, the maintenance of fire products at the site of fire-fighting property are presumably carried out by a fireand/or self. On the other hand, of the special fire-fighting property, only 3.4% of them are the target for a comprehensive precision inspection, which is performed by fire protection management firms. Aging fire products for the rest of special fire-fighting property are absolutely beyond any inspection and reliability verification. This is also true with respect to general households. In this report, the current practice of fire products' useful life management at the site of fire-fighting property were studied. For this study, 32 items of fire products were identified. For the sample data, public institutions and 17 cities and provinces were classified into 18 groups, from which 30 sample targets for each group were determined. Of these targets 422 samples were recovered, based on which this study for establishing a useful 'Management Control System of the Fire Products and its Useful Life' was conducted.

Improvement and Analysis of Fire-Fighting Service in an Aging Society (고령화 사회(An Aging Society)에서의 소방서비스 문제점 및 개선방안)

  • Chung, Guh-Sung;Kim, Hyung-Doo
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.25 no.1
    • /
    • pp.27-33
    • /
    • 2011
  • Recently in Korea, the percentage of the population that is elderly has been increasing rapidly because of lower national birthrates, improvements of medical technologies and techniques, and improved diet. The trend toward an aging population has exceeded the capabilities of the existent Korean welfare system and has caused economic problems such as a lack of new jobs. The government's policies in welfare and infrastructure are insufficient. The fire-fighting administration provides special services for the elderly, including "silver ambulances." In addition, using modem technology, the administration is working on emergency contact devices for the elderly in case of accidents. The aim of this paper is to analyze the services provided for the elderly and to examine improved solutions for the fire-fighting administration.

A Thought on the Fire Fighting Official Selection Examination (소방공무원 채용시험에 관한 소고)

  • Hyun Seong-Ho;Song Yun-Suk;Lee Chang-Woo
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.19 no.4 s.60
    • /
    • pp.80-86
    • /
    • 2005
  • Fire fighting officials perform their works in the field and in most cases, undergo circular appointments for their service period. If they don't gain experience in field works, they have difficulty in performing faithful planning or administrative works. So they surely have to gain experiences in field works. Like this, fire fighting officials' works comprise a lot of fields, comparing with other job workers. So they need a strict body condition. The aim of this inquiry is to scrutinize body standards and important roles concretely which are necessary to fire fighting officials, to analyze written examination, physical test, physical strength test, and interview examination, and to establish the proposal which is necessary to improvement.

Scenarios for Effective Fire Fighting Operations during Tunnel Fires (도로터널 화재시 효과적인 소방활동전략 수립을 위한 시나리오 연구)

  • Kim, Hak kuen;Lee, Ji-hee
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.31 no.5
    • /
    • pp.107-116
    • /
    • 2017
  • Fires in tunnels are an international concern and fatal accidental fires in tunnels seem to occur on annual. They have the potential to become much worse int the future as more and longer tunnels are constructed and as traffic densities increase. This is a serious problem. The main purpose of this study is to develop operational procedures for fire brigades in road tunnel fires. This study discussed the past to see what can be learned from the incidents that have already done in tunnels. 73 cases of road tunnel fires domestic and outside of Korea were investigated and classified into 4 incident categories. Among them, 4 tunnel fires are highlighted, focusing on the activities of fire brigades and operation. Regarding the establishment of the strategies for fire fighting, 6 kinds of fire scenario curves have been deducted with regard to the relation between intervention time and heat release rate. It made the choice from the defensive or aggressive fire fighting activities depending on two criteria i.e. response limit and maximum response time. Road Tunnel Classification models can be useful when a fire brigade evaluates fire risk levels in the tunnels under its jurisdiction from the firefighting point of view and sets up preventive measures.