Stephen Olenick

Fire Protection Engineer, runner, sports fan

[ABC News @ABC]

Banksy confirmed on social media that a statue that appeared in central London of a man striding off a plinth, with his face blinded by a billowing flag, is one of their works. https://t.co/oheHkqdrVQ

[Stephen Olenick @StephenOlenick]

Thank you to my coauthors Mike Klassen and Nasir Hussain, as well as the NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation, the Project Technical Panel, and Project Sponsors for their support of this project.

[Stephen Olenick @StephenOlenick]

CSE's FPRF report discussing the fire hazards of modern vehicles in parking structures including knowledge gaps in published experimentation and a proposed testing approach to fill those gaps has been released. You can download the report here:
https://t.co/geWXbqlMQn

[Stephen Olenick @StephenOlenick]

It also includes a review of relevant fire codes and standards requirements, a discussion of a few relevant fire incidents, and information about the relevant characteristics of parking structures.

[Stephen Olenick @StephenOlenick]

@GuillermoRein We're looking at some of these issues including sprinkler protection in our NFPA FPRF phase 2 project right now. Report should be published soon on the FPRF website.

[FRISSBE @FRISSBEproject]

📢 The #FRISSBE team at the #firelab in Logatec, Slovenia is #hiring!
We're looking for:
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INFO: https://t.co/LTgy6tvoU7

[Fire Safety Research Institute @FSRI_org]

Join us LIVE at 10am ET as we officially launch our Take C.H.A.R.G.E. of Battery Safety public education campaign with an all new PSA and tips to educate people about the safer use of lithium-ion battery-powered devices. #BatteryFireSafety
https://t.co/4YJaEwrUJF

[Fire Technology journal 🔥📕 - NFPA SFPE @FireTechnology]

🔥Hot off the press!
@FireTechnology: Volume 59, issue 5, September 2023.
➡ https://t.co/hJi2EzbXwN
@GuillermoRein @SFPE_Inc @NFPA

[Erica Kuligowski @ericakul]

Interested in wildfires? Check out the *freely available* video lectures (and PPT slides) from experts who presented at the UMD Summer School on Fire Safety Science - Wildland/WUI fire behavior! My presentation on human behaviour in WUI fires is included. https://t.co/4l2Iu7Q7W1

[Fire Technology journal 🔥📕 - NFPA SFPE @FireTechnology]

Experimental Determination of #FlashPoints and #FirePoints of Alcoholic Beverages by Eric J. Sudbrook, Nasir Hussain, Douglas J. Carpenter & @StephenOlenick
➡ https://t.co/omdOVHmTR5

[Stephen Olenick @StephenOlenick]

Internally funded research at CSE studied the Open and Closed Cup Flash and Fire Points of several types of alcoholic beverages with varying alcohol content. The findings of the research were recently published in the journal Fire Technology:
https://t.co/fOAB7TFvCs

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@FSRI_org @CFSIUpdate @MotoSolutions Congrats!

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@gollnerfire @IAWF Congrats!

[Fire Safety Research Institute @FSRI_org]

FSRI has been awarded a contract to develop a new platform to replace #NFIRS with the new National Emergency Response Information System #NERIS in collaboration with @usfire @DHSgov. Transition of fire and emergency services aimed to begin in 2025! https://t.co/CkSOcTyl5m

[MontgomeryCo(MD)Fire @mcfrs]

Let's play: "Guess the year"

2000? No way!
1990? Get serious!!
1980? Whaat?

This Montgomery Ward Smoke Alarm was manufactured in 1974. It doesn’t even have a test button. That would make it: 49 years old!

@Maryland Law requires ALL smoke alarms to be LESS than 10 yrs @mcfrs

[Fire Technology journal 🔥📕 - NFPA SFPE @FireTechnology]

These are the most abundant words in the research papers published by the journal since 2017.

[Fire Technology journal 🔥📕 - NFPA SFPE @FireTechnology]

📢Call for Papers for the Special Issue "12th International Conference on the Structures in Fire (@SiF_2022)" edited by @Liming_Jiang, @Xinyan_Huang, Anwar Orabi & Chao Zhang @HongKongPolyU @UQ_News @WuHanUniv
Submit by 31 March 2023.
➡ https://t.co/uCY9nBFnKq
@HongKongPolyU

[Stephen Olenick @StephenOlenick]

@WojciechITB Of course, we also note that in a potentially unconditioned environment, with car exhaust and all kinds of other environmental issues (dust etc.), nuisance/false alarms could be an issue. So many challenges in parking garages...

[Stephen Olenick @StephenOlenick]

@WojciechITB This was one of the conclusions from our parking garage fires report for the NFPA Research Foundation. Detection could be an option to discover car fires faster and get the FD on scene as quickly as possible. Looks like that worked in your case.