Chief Derek Alkonis: ‘Everything you do is focused on life safety’
“There's so much we don't know about fires. We're still killing firefighters. We're still killing people in fires. There's still so much to know and to do differently.” Chief Derek Alkonis, who serves as a research program manager for UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute, shares his passion for learning about fire dynamics and how best to translate fire behavior research into actionable lessons – and updated tactics – for firefighters. Plus, we dig into all of this:
The Mike Singletary analogy for “aggressive” firefighting
Why the Lahaina fire moved so fast and Alkonis’ current work on the…
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