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A Measure on the Use of Metal Fire Extinguisher for Effective Early Extinguishment of Magnesium Fire (마그네슘 화재의 효과적인 초기소화를 위한 금속화재용 소화기 활용방안에 관한 연구)

  • Nam, Ki-Hun;Lee, Jun-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.24 no.6_2
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    • pp.795-800
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    • 2021
  • Magnesium fires require early fire extinguishment due to impulsive and rapid-fire expansion that makes difficult fire fighting. For this reason, efficient early fire fighting and appropriate prevention of fire spread are considered mainly as significant fire extinction measures. However, there is a limit to developing tools for metal fire fighting, such as devices, facilities, and fire extinguishing agents, due to a lack of regulatory instruments in South Korea. It often generates challenges to early fire fighting implementation by fire responders. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate a measure for securing the efficiency of early fire fighting in magnesium. This study identified the applicability of the metal fire extinguisher used in the United States for magnesium fire through a performance test of a fire extinguishing agent for metal fire. Moreover, we implemented a free burning experiment using magnesium powder to compare varying combustion and extinction process that could occur during applying metal fire extinguishers. Finally, this study suggests measures of the use and application of metal fire extinguishers for magnesium.

Field working and Fire extinguishing performance of an Indoor Fire-fighting Robot (실내화재진압로봇의 현장운용 및 소화성능평가)

  • Kwark, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Jong-Kwon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.163-167
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    • 2008
  • Fire-fighters are struggling against heat and dense smoke by fire when it occurs at the basement or the inner place of a building. An indoor fire-fighting robot with well heat-resistance, great searching cameras and good extinguishing ability has been developed. It never suffocate, coming into the fire district and extinguishes fire directly. In this study, several experiment was conducted to evaluate field working ability of the fire-fighting robot. As a result, a series of passing obstacles, finding fire place and fire suppression by the remote controlling with image information appeared satisfactory.

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Discussion on Formulation Process and Configuration of Fire-Fighting Vulnerable Zone Model (소방취약지 모델의 구성과 정립프로세스 논의)

  • Kim, Seong Gon;Chang, Eun Mi;Choi, Gap Yong;Kim, Hi Tae
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.71-77
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    • 2014
  • There are numbers of unpredictable risk factors in the disaster scenes such as fire, explosion and fail to early life-saving or holding the flames which can lead to massive damage. In particular, fire-fighters who arrive on the scene within 5 minutes after dispatching, have a limitation to get aware to the situation of scene fully, because of immediate deploy to disaster scene with limited information. This situation may lead to disturbance that fire-fighters perform effective fire-fighting activities, to put fire-fighter's life at risk by misjudge the situation. Previous domestic and International studies focused vulnerability for spatial area or features which can damage to life and property in the event of anticipated. In this study, we have been developed fire-fighting vulnerable zone model that can analyze comprehensively hindrance factors for fire-fighting activities targeting whole life cycle of fire-fighting activities from dispatch to fire suppression or life-saving. In addition, we have been given shape to finality and applicability for our model by defining the new concept of fire-fighting vulnerable zone which can be distinguished from the concept of fire vulnerable area in previous studies. The results of this study can be used to analysis fire-fighting vulnerable zone type analysis, establish fire-fighting policies and improve the performance of decision-making process.

A Study on Evaluation System Development for Unexpected Scenarios Fire-Fighting Drill (무각본소방훈련 평가시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Seung-Il;Lim, Jeong-Won;Kim, Jae-Kyeong;Kim, Jun-Woo
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.110-117
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to overcome the problems of existing fire fighting drills and build a practical and effective fire fighting drill system to enhance emergency response capabilities. The unexpected scenarios fire fighting drill is to conduct drills with no scenarios and draw conclusions with quantified outcomes in real time, which provides the object evaluation system. The unexpected scenarios fire fighting drill is based on the IoT sensor-based drill evaluation system to suit individual requirement of drilling spots. This study also includes drill field test conducted to examine the applicability of the evaluation system for quantified outcomes. It is considered that the evaluation system of this paper will contribute to systematization and quantification of fire fighting drill, raise trainees' safety consciousness, and ultimately increase the actual fire fighting response capabilities.

Evaluation of Field working Improvement for an Indoor Fire-fighting Robot (실내화재진압로봇의 현장운용성 향상을 위한 실용성 평가)

  • Kwark, Ji-Hyun;Lee, Woo-Jun;Kim, Jong-Kwon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.126-131
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    • 2008
  • Fire-fighters have been struggling against heat and dense smoke caused by fire when it occurs especially at the basement or the inner place of a building. An indoor fire-fighting robot with well heat-resistance, great searching cameras and good extinguishing ability has been recently developed. It never suffocate, coming into the fire district and extinguishes fire directly. In this study, several experiment was conducted to promote field working ability of the fire-fighting robot. As a result, heat resistance, water discharge and field working appeared satisfactory.

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A Study on The Improvement of the Leagal Study on Special Fire Safety Inspection System (법과 제도적 관점에서 본 소방특별조사의 개선방안)

  • Lee, Jae Wook;Jeong, Gi Sung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.545-552
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    • 2021
  • Under the Act amended on August 4, 2011, a special fire-fighting investigation was conducted by the relevant person (owner, manager, oil refineries), and the responsibility was also given to the relevant person. Instead of directly entering all existing fire-fighting targets and investigating the maintenance and management status of fire-fighting facilities, the fire-fighting agency selects and visits some targets every year, checks the maintenance and management status of fire-fighting facilities, corrects them, and imposes fines, etc. Reasons for the introduction of the system were the establishment of a private autonomous correction system by strengthening the responsibility of officials, lack of firefighting professionals, possible corruption due to frequent public contact, and responsibility of fire agencies. However, many problems arose even after the introduction of a special fire investigation system. A special fire investigation, one of the fire safety systems, checks whether related public officials and especially fire officials are properly installed, maintained and managed in accordance with relevant laws. Special firefighting investigations were introduced as firefighting inspections at the time the firefighting law was enacted in 1958, and have undergone a revised process more than 30 times until recently. Firefighting Facility Installation, Maintenance and Safety Management Act", the existing firefighting inspection was changed to a special firefighting investigation and accepted. At the time of enactment of the Fire Service Act in 1958, a special firefighting investigation was introduced as a firefighting inspection, and until recently, more than 30 revisions have been made. In 2003, as the existing fire fighting system was divided into four laws, it was approved by changing the existing fire fighting inspection to a special fire fighting investigation in the "Fire Fighting Facility Installation, Maintenance and Safety Management Act".

Utilization of the robot's field of fire prevention research (로봇의 소방방재분야 활용방안 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Il
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.471-484
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    • 2013
  • Large and complicated firefighting environment is accelerating in the early activities in the field of fire officials at the time limit situation leads to people's lives and property damage, as well as the loss of the Fire Service. Therefore, the state-of-the-art technology that can respond to rapidly changing fire environment urgently in the field of fire fighting have been introduced should be utilized. These intelligent firefighting robots build daegukmin firefighting safety net that can be used when. Other advanced technology industries, the most effective ways that can be introduced into the firefighting shall be provided in the current situation of the industry's initial firefighting robots.

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A Study on Improvement of Domestic Airport Service for Rescue and Fire Fighting (국내 공항 구조 및 소방 업무 개선방안 연구)

  • Han, Jae-Hyun;Chung, Ki-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.69-74
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    • 2008
  • Aircraft fires due to accident at an airport may be under a special situation. An outstanding characteristic of aircraft fires is their tendency to reach lethal intensity within a very short time. In domestic aviation act, there are regulations related to services coping with the aircraft accidents within an airport. To cope aircraft fires, it is necessary to define clearly the regulations and standards about the services and related activities of rescue and fire fighting, and to keep the regulations and standards. The study has been performed on the basis of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Airport Services Manual of rescue and fire fighting. The objective of study is to suggest improvement methods for standards applicable to actual service practices of rescue and fire fighting by analyzing through the comparison of domestic and international regulations and standards.

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A Study on the Multiple Disaster Administration's Problem and Improvement (대형 재해관리의 문제점과 개선방안)

  • Kim, Hak-Soo;Koh, Jae-Moon
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.179-198
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    • 2003
  • If see disaster administration system of our country, start in terms of is coping by countermeasure after four immediately after disaster occurrence many problems blessing with a sons by tribe and so on of link nature between formation, disaster administration complete charge utensil's absence, disaster charge manpower and budget be indicated and join. If examine improvement way accordingly, is as following ; Necessity of synthetic disaster administration system, Fire fighting formation's independence guarantee, Integration of fire fighting connection similarity business, Disaster administration's permanent establishment complete charge utensil's necessity, Disaster administration midautumn complete charge utensil at a metropolitan autonomous fire fighting system reorganization, Role division of labor between center and local government, Disaster administration professional human strength positivity, Disaster administration information system construction practical use, Equipment and improvement of budget state, Education public information for safety culture consciousness fixing, Internationalization of fire fighting business, globalization propulsion, Structure, member of rescue confrontation system and efficiency. Fire fighting environment is changing greatly, and fire fighting must become center to correspond to do confrontation that do one thing troble when produce disaster.

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A Service Platform Development on the GIS-based Analysis and Management of the Fire-fighting Vulnerable Areas (GIS기반 소방취약지 분석관리 서비스 플랫폼 개발)

  • Song, Wanyoung;Cho, Kwanghyun;Cho, Myeongheum;Kim, Seonggon;Kim, Sungjae
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.269-278
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    • 2015
  • Developed a service platform technology for automated that analyze the fire-fighting vulnerable area and equipped a map online. As a result, it is possible to provide the information necessary for the vulnerable area of the fire-fighting activity online. If progress on the study of the utilized service, it is possible to reduce the Golden Time of the fire fighting field. In this study, Confirmed the technical viability satisfactory to the management and service expansion improvements to fire-fighting vulnerable area.