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Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Fire Tactics I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 030-0509/01
Abbreviation TAK 1
Course title Fire Tactics I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Miloš Kvarčák

Subject syllabus

1st Introduction to teaching content, the rules for granting credits, requirements for test
and determining the focus of a semester of work. Terminology used.
2nd Conditions influencing the emergence of burning fire and its development, the fire load
zones in the classification of fires and fire. Parameters of fire: the burning and spread
fire area and perimeter of the fire, flame height, temperature, fire, gas exchange and
heat, density and composition of the smoke.
3rd Development of Fire: determining the extent of fire area and perimeter of the fire.
4th A fire in the open field: characteristics, changing the parameters, the method of dissemination and
influencing factors.
5th A fire in an enclosed building: characteristics, method of distribution, gas exchange and
Heat and influencing factors.
6th The exchange of gases during combustion in the open field and objects. Ventilation
smoky areas.
7th Principles and procedures for suspension burning.

Literature

BENGTSSON, Lars-Göran. Enclosure fires. Karlstad, Sweden: Swedish Rescue Services Agency, 2001. ISBN 91-725-3263-7 .
Dunn V., December Newsletter – Backdraft and flashover, what is the difference, dostupné na http://vincentdunn.com /dunn/newsletters.
Fleischmann C. M., Backdraft Phenomena, NIST-GCR-94-646, University of California, Berkley, USA, 1994.

Advised literature

Kolektiv autorů. Fire Protection Handbook. Seventeenth Edition. Quincy: NFPA, 1992, ISBN 0-87765-378-X .