PPV Articles and Reports

Articles
The History of Positive Pressure Attack (pdf, Balloon Life, 2001)
Positive Reinforcement (Fire Chief Magazine, 2006)
The Power of Positive Pressure (Fire Chief Magazine, 2005)
Pressure Precepts (Fire Chief Magazine, 2006)
Positive Pressure Attack: Questions and Answers (fireengineering.com, 2007)
NIST Test Fans the Flames for High-Rise Fire Safety (NIST Tech Beat, 2006)
NIST Tests PPV in High Rise (Fire Chief Magazine, 2006)
Fans Clear High-Rise Stairwells of Smoke (NIST Tech Beat, 2007)
Positive-pressure ventilation in a test setting (Summary of Fire Engineering article, 1989)
Positive Pressure for a Positive Advantage, Part 1 (Firenuggets.com)
Positive Pressure for a Positive Advantage, Part 2 (Firenuggets.com)
Positive Pressure for a Positive Advantage, Part 3 (Firenuggets.com)
Large Scale Fire Tests in the Runehamar Tunnel Completed (SP Technical Research Institute, Sweden)
Fire Attack: Flue Season (Fire Rescue Magazine, 2005)
Fire Officials Tackle Challenges of High-Rise Blazes (N.Y. Times, 2008)
Fanning the Flame of Success (Fresno Bee, California, 2008)
Positive Pressure Ventilation (Fire.gov, 2008)

Reports
The Wind of Change, A Study Investigating The Implementation Strategies And Usage of Positive Pressure Ventilation In United Kingdom Fire Services (pdf, 2002)
Characterizing Positive Pressure Ventilation using Computational Fluid Dynamics
(abstract, NIST, 2003)
Evaluation of the Ability of Fire Dynamic Simulator to Simulate Positive Pressure Ventilation in the Laboratory and Practical Scenarios (abstract, NIST, 2006)
Evaluating Positive Pressure Ventilation In Large Structures: High-Rise Pressure Experiments (abstract, NIST, 2007)
Full-Scale Evaluation of Positive Pressure Ventilation In a Fire Fighter Training Building (abstract, NIST, 2006)
Effect of Positive Pressure Ventilation on a Room Fire (abstract, NIST, 2005)
Advances in positive pressure ventilation: Live fire tests and laboratory simulation (abstract, Fire Technology, 1994)
Positive Pressure Ventilation for High-Rise Buildings (abstract, National Research Council Canada, 2004)
Positive Pressure Ventilation in Single Medium-Sized Premises (abstract, Fire Technology, 2004)
Smoke ventilation in operational firefighting (abstract, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1997)
Smoke ventilation in operational firefighting Part 2. Multi-story buildings (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2000)
Evaluation of Fire Scene Contamination by Using PPV Fans (Forensic Science Communications, 2002)
Characterization of Firefighter Exposures During Fire Overhaul (Firescenesafety.com, pdf, 2000)
Use of PPV Fans to Reduce the Hazards of Entering Chemically Contaminated Buildings (Chem-bio.com, 1999)
Fire Cause & Fire Debris Analysis, A Review: 1998 to 2001 (Interpol.int, pdf, 2001)
The Operational Problem of Fire Control (Lund University, Sweden, pdf, 2002)
The Use of PPV in Firefighting Operations (summary, Communities and Local Government site, UK, 2000)

Miscellaneous Links
Chicago Fire Department Mobile Ventilation Unit in Action (You Tube video, 2007)
Tempest MVU at Chicago High Rise Burn Test (You Tube video)
Positive Pressure Ventilation(PPV), Tactical Firefighting Research (Firetactics.com)

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