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The Fireman’s Guide to Main Street: The Bowling Alley
The various construction styles, bowstring roofs, exposure buildings, wooden floors covered in wax and oil, and endless hidden voids make bowling alley fires a recipe for incendiary disaster. These fires are notoriously difficult battle spaces for even the most skilled fireman.
The Fireman’s Guide to Main Street: The Old Mill
The old mill: What would a town be without the mill? Nonexistent, that’s what. Unless you’re in a planned bedroom community platted in the 21st century then it’s highly likely your town grew around industry during the American Industrial Revolution…
The Fireman’s Guide to Main Street: The Taxpayer
The Type 3 Taxpayer: AKA “Main-street USA”. These are the quintessential multi-story brick buildings that exist in some version in every North American town, big or small. Ordinary Type 3 construction is by far the most common…
The Fireman’s Guide to Main Street: The Old House
The older single family homes in historic districts and around Main streets come in a countless styles and forms. From large ornate Victorians that line avenues from early prominent landowners to small shotgun bungalows within…
The Fireman’s Guide to Main Street: 5 Buildings to Know
Simply put, we all see buildings, but few understand what they’re actually looking at. That’s a problem, a really big problem for two important reasons: a building is the one thing that directly…
The Half-Story
There will always be debatable hot topics in the fire service, fog vs smooth, interior vs exterior, wood ladders, metal ladders, this helmet vs that one