Heat Stress During Firefighters Training for Intervention in Tunnels and Other Enclosed Spaces

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27200%2F23%3A10254787" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27200/23:10254787 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146523005914" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146523005914</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.294" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.294</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Heat Stress During Firefighters Training for Intervention in Tunnels and Other Enclosed Spaces

Original language description

Fires in tunnels represent a special case of an enclosed space fires. Tunnel fires reach a wide range of heat release rate values with maximums of up to hundreds of megawatts. Tunnel fires are usually fast growing, supported by the geometry of the tunnel, reaching fast high temperatures and in general conditions difficult for firefighting. Training to operate in such extreme conditions is crucial to ensure both the safety of firefighters and effective firefighting. The flashover container is a facility that is used for firefighting training in an enclosed space and to increase the psychological resilience of firefighters. This article presents partial results of a long-term study conducted between 2011 and 2018 in the flashover container facility Zbiroh in the Czech Republic. The main goal of the project was to describe and quantify conditions that are reached in the flashover container during training sessions in terms of the heat exposure and compare them with conditions that occur during the tunnel fire. Results of the study were used to propose new training scenario for firefighting training in enclosed space at extreme conditions corresponding to tunnel fires. The paper compares the use of propane and wood as a fuel in a flashover container. Based on data from the training of 142 firefighters, it presents the relationships between skin temperature, heart rate, and subjective feelings of firefighters.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30305 - Occupational health

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Transportation Research Procedia. Volume 74

ISBN

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ISSN

2352-1457

e-ISSN

2352-1465

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1444-1451

Publisher name

Elsevier

Place of publication

Amsterdam

Event location

MIkulov

Event date

May 29, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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