NIST cherry road CD incorporated into Command School curriculum - News Briefs - National Institutes of Standards and Technology - Brief Article

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Jan, 2002

Command School is a 3 day training symposium sponsored by the International Association of Fire Chiefs 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 produced CD-ROM, Simulation of the Dynamics of the fire at 3146 Cherry Road NE, Washington, DC, May 30, 1999, NISTIR 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.

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