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1. Please read the Case Study below and answer the following questions:

Case Study: One night, Engine 265 gets dispatched to a residential fire alarm. Most of the time these calls do not turn out to be much, but you are surprised to see white smoke from the front door and the family standing outside when you arrive. The family tells your lieutenant that they were awakened by the fire alarm and that they could see smoke in the kitchen and hear water spraying in the basement as they escaped. When you make it to the basement, you find a sprinkler head tripped over an office desk and computer. It looks as though a fire originated in or near the computer, spreading to a bulletin board before it was quickly extinguished. You place a couple of wedges in the sprinkler head and check the rest of the basement for fire extension. It never dawned on you that homes in this area had this type of active protection. A. How effective is a sprinkler head at stopping the progress of a residential fire? B. Is it likely that other homes in the neighborhood are also protected by residential fire sprinklers?

C. Who made the decision to install it, and why did they decide to do it?

Initiative 16 - Apparatus Design & Safety Safety is an evolution. Equipment seems to continue to become safer with each version. New technologies and innovations are available that can significantly reduce the potential for injuries and deaths related to fire service apparatus and equipment failures or shortcomings. It is important to understand and explore the technologies and innovations available today. The 16th initiative ratifies the belief that no firefighter should die in the line-of-duty due to apparatus or equipment related issues. After reading the required weekly readings, and reviewing the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives section regarding Apparatus Design & Safety on the website Everyone Goes Home, write a post that achieves the following: