Link to downloadable slides with full notes…
https://deviating.net/lockpicking/slides/NFPA_fire_safety_and_inspection.pdf
Lori Greene’s incredible blog, iDigHardware…
https://idighardware.com
To learn more about Fire Door Inspection and Related NFPA Certifications…
https://www.locksmithledger.com/door-hardware/article/53071072/become-a-fire-door-inspector
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In addition to being certified as a Forensic Locksmith and a Safe and Vault Technician, it sometimes surprises people to learn that I am a Life Safety NFPA & ADA Consultant and Fire Door Inspector. “Deviant, do you make a lot of money doing safety inspections like that?” I get asked. The answer is a resounding no. I didn’t take this training for the money, however. I learned about fire doors and fire suppression systems so that I can speak knowledgeably about them if I’m using this field as a cover identity during a break-in job.
This presentation is a comprehensive crash course in the field of National Fire Prevention Association knowledge and building codes. The rundown offered will afford you a lot of useful tips, terminology, and insider knowledge that you can rattle off at an unsuspecting employee or guard who is curious as to what you’re doing inside of their building.
NOTE: You will not be a certified NFPA or ADA consultant after attending this talk. You are not legally allowed to charge money for inspections and certification of buildings… but you’ll certainly sound like you could do that if you pay attention!
I have to thank CackalackyCon so very much for hosting this talk. I cannot imagine a better possible venue for a presentation of this nature. The crowd was SO engaged and enthusiastic and asked so many fascinating questions. Squeek, Mouse, Bace, and all of the other organizers and staff at the con knew what to expect and put me in the final schedule slot on Friday so that we would be able to run as long as we wanted and BOY did that work out well. If you are crazy enough to watch this video, you might just get a lot out of it that you weren’t expecting. Enjoy! 👍😁👍
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5-over-1's are actually specifically a weird edge case in the fire code – the ground floor is ordinary or noncombustible, and then the upper 5 stories are a combination of engineered wood beam (similar fire performance to timber framed) and normal wood stick construction. Essentially a 5-story apartment building made out of wood, sitting on the roof of a strip mall. They're basically firetraps compared to what you'd expect a 6 floor mixed-use building to be, and exploit the edge cases in the fire and building codes to enable cheaper construction. And they look pretty dang fireproof at ground level.
Loved the vid. Great info as always!
Questions are not bad but I would almost prefer them to be at the end or at least end of sections. The random all over the place tends to make them a bit less informed or useful. Also cuts into the talk.
If I slipped into a janitor closet and used a mop handle to break a sprinkler, would't people notice that I was doused in sludge water?
I get that it's a word with a technical meaning, but I'm guessing that "dogging" doesn't have the same slang meaning in left-pondia.
Deviant is the best presenter of nerdly knowledge. Every single presentation he does is a treat.
Hell yeah, fire sprinklers!
This was great, I always love these and how you present the information with the humor to keep everyone engaged. I love the part about boring a guard enough that he wanders off, "get back here and let me tell you about this door" lmao
I hope some day I get to see one of your talks in person because you just somehow make what should be the most boring crap so incredibly interesting. I loved your elevator talks and this was just as incredible.
Just FYI, Halon was almost entirely replaced with Halotron (at least in motorsports environment), which is less shitty for the environment.
You know what, this is completely tangential to the talk, who did you pay to get the foam insert for that case cut? That looks way too clean to not have been done professionally.
That was fucking spectacular. Great work Dev!
This was fantastic.
This talk was fantastic in person and nearly as good via video. Well done and thank you!
Regarding tripping carbon monoxide detectors, formic acid + sulfuric acid produces water and carbon monoxide. Not sure how much you'd need to trip one and don't have an appropriate space to do testing, but there you go. Could probably rig up some sort of 'glow stick' type contraption with a glass ampule of one reactant inside a plastic container of the other, and a little nozzle on the end to vent the gas where you want it. The proper way is to get a tank of air with CO added at 50ppm as a calibration standard, but those are big and heavy…
AHJ
Authority Having Jurisdiction
Sounds like Sovereign Citizen Talk.
Oh man, I love getting new routes to annoy people in public!
It’s 1 AM and saw this video pop up on my feed. Looks like I’m going to be late to work this morning!
Many of us could easily watch another 2 hours!
Literally minutes after hearing you talk about the Iroquois Theatre I see it listed in my Fire Officer text book while studying.
The most irresponsible talk you've ever given. Shame on you dude 😢
57:49 Best crowd ever.
This might just replace your adult industry talk as my favorite Dev' talk.
Adult industry was so great because it was clearly designed for a specific audience. Those were always my favorite essays to write in school, thinking about what to include for the target audience, what wording to use, etc. That talk was a masterclass of the genre.
Turns out with this speech that you also have a target audience: nerds. We all get super excited about connecting dots between disparate fields, like security and safety. You rocked the room.
1:00:15 When I was in college, my dorm was set up so that at the bottom of the stairs, your turned left into the lobby and then went out the main doors. To the right of the stairs was a set of fire doors with the typical alarmed push bars. It was astounding how many people would turn left when the fire alarms were going off cause instead of taking the shortest path out. One RA actually tried writing up the smart ones who used that door for setting off the door alarms.