Question

How can the fire department take an active role in community based risk reduction programs in order to promote life safety?

Answer 1

Fire department are the ones which protects the building from fire . It is called a Situation of emergency .

To ensure safety of the community , certain risk reduction programs have been introduced . They are:

1. To increase the fire resilience of the communities.

2. Securing the safety of the ones who are fire fighters. They should be well protected , as they have close proximity to that of fire.

Talking about the structural constructions in United States , it is estimated to have 46 million structural buildings which are situated in 70,000 communities , which are either to be stated as located in wildland habitation .

The communities like Wildland - Urban Interface communities are the ones who are prone to the destruction from wildland fires.

This program is a combination of laboratory and experiments related to fields, involving the use of computer fire models ,in order to understand the Wildland urban Interface fire exposure . The computer fire models , helps in developing the scientific standards, codes and practices for the communities . This program's intention is to save the people who are at fire risk. It is working towards reducing the risk , by lessening the dangers of fire that people might suffer from.

It has been reported that due to fire , there have been property losses , injuries , death etc. But now the scenario is different. With the improvement in the field of science and technology , it has been seen that technologies like cyber-physical , sensors and controls in the building , required fire tools , etc will help in keeping the building and people protected from fire.