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Trump Stopped Hazard Mitigation Methodology During His Term
Joint Fire Science Program, NIST, US Forest Service
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Outsmarts Trump Replaced canceled US Forest Service partnership with New California Partnership Timeline to Stand Alone 2022. See what Trump was Trying to Hide Hers's PROOF 2017 to 2022 NIST.TN.2205 Wildfire Science Belongs to the People paid by their taxes
OCTOBER 2007 NIST.TN. 1018-5
AUGUST 2008 NIST.TN 1600
DECEMBER 2012 NIST. and Forest Service Create World's First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires
DECEMBER 2012 NIST. Forest Service Propose System to Help Communities Review Address Resist Wildfires.
JANUARY 2013 NIST.TN 1748
NOVEMBER 2015 NIST.TN. 1910
JANUARY 2017 TO JANUARY 2021 Joint Fire Science Program, NIST, US Foerst Service partnership science exchange with managers Federal Network was canceled. See NIST NOTES current citations.
MAY 2021 NIST.TN. 2161
MARCH 2022 NIST.TN. 2205 Replaced Joint Fire Science Program and US Forest Service Partnership with the 2021 paertership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), and the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) in 2022 completed Phase 1 testing of Hazard Mitigation Methodology (HMM) now law in the State of California. The HMM was conceived because fire departments can’t be everywhere at once, structures in the WUI must be made to “stand alone” and survive fire and ember exposures without contributions from first responders.
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JULY 2023 NIST.TN. 2252
AUGUST 2023 NIST.TN. 2262
NIST.TN. 2205 March 2022 Mitigation Methodology 40 identified structure ignition vulnerabilities
The agglomeration of structures seen in high-density communities (frequently resulting in small SSD) has significant impact on fire behavior. First, structures represent a significant density of fuels that impact fire spread and, in many cases, directly contribute to the ignition of additional structures, propagating fire throughout the community.
The structures destroyed by WUI fires have devastated entire communities and have cost billions of dollars. As structure losses continue to increase, there is a growing need for a comprehensive hazard assessment and mitigation methodology to harden appropriate structures and parcels effectively and efficiently against ember and fire exposures. To address this need, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), and the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) embarked on a sixteen-month collaborative effort, culminating in this Hazard Mitigation Methodology (HMM).
This HMM has outlined a detailed structure hardening strategy to resist ignitions from ember exposures. The 40 identified structure ignition vulnerabilities illustrate how detailed structure hardening must be for a structure to stand alone.
NIST and IBHS are non-regulatory entities, while CAL FIRE has regulatory authority in the state of California. Regulatory agencies and homeowners will choose where to implement any or all of the components presented in the HMM.
NIST Technical Note 2161 May 2021 Structure Separation Experiments Phase 1 Preliminary Test Plan.
NIST Technical Note 2161 May 2021 Structure Separation Experiments Phase 1 Preliminary Test Plan.
The primary objective of this project is to assess structure-to-structure fire spread for structures located in the Wildland-Urban Interface Full-scale fire experiments will be conducted in which various types of structures The spacing between the source and target structures will be varied to identify safe structure separation distance (SSD).
Experiments will be conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL), and the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
NIST.TN. 1748 JANUARY 14, 2013
The destruction of homes at the interface is the very limited coupling between building codes and standards and potential fire and ember exposure. The limited exposure information currently available does not address the full range of realistic WUI exposures and offers little context for the design of ignition resistant landscapes and buildings. While the principles of ignition and fire spread at the WUI have been known, actual exposure quantification has been very limited. The resulting gap between exposure and structure ignition has therefore resulted in a lack of tested and implementable hazard mitigation solutions. As an example, there is currently little quantifiable information that links the ember generation from wildland fuels to building assemblies testing. The proposed WUI-scale can be used to explicitly identify WUI areas that have a fire problem, as opposed to areas that meet housing density or wildland vegetation requirements as is frequently done.
December 5, 2012 NIST and US Forest Service Create World's First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires
December 05, 2012 NIST and Forest Service Create World's First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Two federal agencies have teamed to create the first-ever system for linking accurate assessments of risk from wildland fires to improved building codes, standards and practices that will help communities better resist the threat. The proposed Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Hazard Scale addresses fires that occur where developed and undeveloped areas meet, and is described in a report released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
NIST Technical Note 1600 August 2008 Residential Structure Separation Fire Experiments
NIST Technical Note 1600 August 2008 Residential Structure Separation Fire Experiments In a recent full-scale laboratory experiment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), it took less than 80 s for flames from a simulated house with combustible exterior walls to ignite a similar “house” 1.8 m (6 ft) away. In another experiment, involving the same type of structures, the flames from one simulated house again reached the second, but this time a gypsum barrier protected the simulated home from sustained ignition.
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The 94 % Urban 6.5 million very high-risk properties in non-FHSZ burn like FHSZ properties and do not receive the same access to mitigation and government recovery resources. To end discrimination FHSZ risk sould be based on fire frequency. FHSZ maps are not capturing homes and parts of the state actually burning.
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December 05, 2012, NIST and Forest Service created the World's First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires in 2012 by the Obama Administration and the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) scientists to further develop cutting-edge wildfire codes and standards to build communities that can stand alone without intervention of first responders. NIST. TN 2205
2018, President Trump and his administration had the responsibility to support tax paid wildfire science testing technologies to build stand-alone communities. Instead, Trump canceled the Joint Fire Science Program Federal Partnership with the National Institute of Technology and The US Forest Service creating 4-part WUI Hazard Scale first testing Vegetation then Structures, Vehicles and Ornamental Vegetation at a later date.
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Trump canceled the Joint Fire Science Program a Federal Partnership developing standalone building codes delayed four years of science exchange with managers. The JFSP mission is to exchange the results of peer reviewed science with the Fire Science Exchange Network which delivers practical science-based solutions to various stakeholders, and lawmakers. One year into The Biden/Harris Administration May 2021, NIST.TN 2161 and March 2022, NIST.TN 2205 culminating in this HMM HAZARD MITIGATION METHODOLOGY Now law in the state of California.
INFLATABLE PROTECTIVE HOME BARRIER PATENT 1-11-2011
I AM PATRICK HENRY BOGGS JR CHASING THE AMERICAN DREAM AND AN ADVOCATE FOR SAVING FAMILY'S HOMES
I BELIEVE ELIMINATING JFSP IS WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE TO GUARANTEE NO NEW EXPENSIVE BUILDING CODES
I BELIEVE ELIMINATING JFSP IS WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE TO GUARANTEE NO NEW EXPENSIVE BUILDING CODES
- I am Patrick H Boggs Jr a Black Inventor living in Baltimore Maryland. I received US Patent 7,866,101, for Inflatable Protective Home Barrier (IPHB), on 01-11-2011 to protect homes from wildfires. IPHB is a whole house waterless firefighting system the next progression to firefighting as solar, wind, and nuclear has been to electricity. When water in the future becomes a vital commodity and is in short supply for drinking for crops and animals water would become too expensive for putting out house fires to let run on the street at 1,200 gallons a minute.
I BELIEVE ELIMINATING JFSP IS WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE TO GUARANTEE NO NEW EXPENSIVE BUILDING CODES
I BELIEVE ELIMINATING JFSP IS WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE TO GUARANTEE NO NEW EXPENSIVE BUILDING CODES
I BELIEVE ELIMINATING JFSP IS WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE TO GUARANTEE NO NEW EXPENSIVE BUILDING CODES
- I have been writing letters since 2003 to the Senate, Congress, and Cabinet advocating fire departments needed an upgrade because the US Forest Service was still using 76-year-old Whole House Wildfire Fire Wrap techniques still using ladders to carry their 300,000sqft stock of Fire Proof Structure Wrapping Material in rolls to manually cover a roof by hand risking injury by falling off ladders or roofs
- Such an automated portable fire brake system can keep entire communities like MoMountainhadows Colorado Springs Colorado or Coffee Park Santa Rosa California from burning house to house the entire town down.
CAL FIRE FHSZ CLASSIFIES RISK FROM 1 TO 5. 2 OR MORE HOMES ON 1 ACRE ARE A 5 VERY HIGH RISK
I BELIEVE ELIMINATING JFSP IS WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE TO GUARANTEE NO NEW EXPENSIVE BUILDING CODES
CAL FIRE FHSZ CLASSIFIES RISK FROM 1 TO 5. 2 OR MORE HOMES ON 1 ACRE ARE A 5 VERY HIGH RISK
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- Certified Hardened Home 30 Ft Rule for High-Density Communities without defensive space with more than 1 home per acre having FHSZ very high risk of 5 have no Cal Fire plan. In contrast FHSZ risk 2 to 4 communities has the funded HIZ HOME IGNITION ZONE a vegitationl only Defensive Space Plan.
- An automated portable fire brake system like the Inflatable Protective Home Barrier can protect communities with little defensive space and no plan. Shadows Colorado Springs Colorado or Coffee Park Santa Rosa California from burning house to house the entire town down.
- How many of the 85 people that died in the TUBBS Fire in 2018 would be alive today if they knew they had homes at FHSZ very high risk 5 and knew about and insisted that the automated portable fire brake system the Inflatable Protective Home Barrier was part of the local fire departments toolbox of wildfire protection equipment available to them.
- When placed between homes on fire as an automated portable fire brake system keeping the next home from burning like a fuse the entire community by house-to-house ignition.
per The JFSP defensible space definitions do not consider structure to structure fire spread
per The JFSP defensible space definitions do not consider structure to structure fire spread
CAL FIRE FHSZ CLASSIFIES RISK FROM 1 TO 5. 2 OR MORE HOMES ON 1 ACRE ARE A 5 VERY HIGH RISK
- I believe that Real Estate Developers and the Building Industry have knowingly built high-density separation distance structure communities without adequate defensible space. Firefighters need a safe space to do their work and provide safety for first responders. I believe someone in the Real Estate Developers and Building Industry did not want government-sponsored computer modeling and mapping scrutiny of communities for ember attack risk that also could identify other questionable risk practices unsafe for firefighters, first responders, and homeowners.
wui defensible space between structures and vehicles and structures
per The JFSP defensible space definitions do not consider structure to structure fire spread
Home Ignition Zone written by US Forest Service for homes on lots greater than 1/3 Acre
- Alexander Maranghides a NIST scientist explains, “If high-density low separation distance homes in the most susceptible zones of a community can be built or retrofitted to high-risk standards, they could potentially serve as a 'frontline defensive wall for the structures in the lower-risk zones they surround," "In effect, we may be able to mitigate the entire dynamic of a WUI fire event if the frontline private property structures don't ignite." The Inflatable Protective Home Barrier can be used to protect homes before the retrofit process is complete.
Home Ignition Zone written by US Forest Service for homes on lots greater than 1/3 Acre
per The JFSP defensible space definitions do not consider structure to structure fire spread
Home Ignition Zone written by US Forest Service for homes on lots greater than 1/3 Acre
- The JFSP NIST Technical Note 1910 November 2015 p.4-p.5 Structure spacing and density affected exposure between adjacent structures. Out of the 445 total ignited structures, there were 55 to 119 (12 % to 27 %) identified as burning within 60 min of the passage of the main wildland fire front contributing to 73% to 88% of the total 445 homes were destroyed by the fire burning from house to house. Structures were ignited within five and a half hours after the fire reached the community in the 2012 Waldo Canyon Colorado Springs Colorado fire. This fact debunks the long-standing US Forest Service Statement; Research around home destruction vs. home survival in wildfires point to embers and small flames as the main way that the majority of homes ignite in wildfires.
JFSP 2012 waldo canyon wildfire Colorado springs Colorado REVIEW
- 20. Out of the 445 total ignited structures, there were 55 to 119 (12 % to 27 %) identified as burning within 60 min of the passage of the main wildland firefront.
- My Observation of 20. If only 55 to 119 of the total 445 structures were set ablaze by the passage of the main wildland fire front the conclusions of the Joint Fire Science Program are 326 to 390 homes out of the total 445 were destroyed by structure-to-structure fire burn.
- 23. The effects of structure spacing, about burning of adjacent structures, are dependent on exposure and can vary considerably within a small spatiotemporal extent.
- 36. Structure spacing and density affected exposure between adjacent structures and made certain locations untenable for first responders, therefore, reducing their effectiveness and possibly their ability to respond quickly to stop early fire spread.
WHERE IS DEFENSIBLE SPACE
- A WUI fire and ember exposure scale (WUI-scale) needs to be created to help consistently quantify the expected severity of WUI fire events based on measures, or scales, of expected ember and fire exposure. Once established, these technically based ember and fire exposures for the WUI can form the technical foundation for a set of performance-based building codes aimed at providing a level of structure ignition protection commensurate with the expected fire and/or ember exposure.