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Hee-haw!!! Imagine my surprise when I saw my name as a forum topic! Thank you so much!

I know that my place in the code-world is smaller than most of yours, since I'm strictly focused on doors and hardware, but I'm trying to learn more about how doors fit into the bigger picture too. I have been learning and teaching about door-related requirements for most of my career, and I feel very blessed to have a new job which will allow me more time to focus on that. My blog has made me available to anyone who can Google so I'm getting more questions than ever, and I really appreciate having all of you to ask for help. Once I transition out of my previous position, I am hoping to become more active in trying to address the little issues in the codes and standards that create grey areas related to doors and hardware. There have been quite a few times that I've tried to find a solid answer to something by checking the codes, then by talking to the ICC/NFPA, and the answer just isn't there. That makes me crazy! I like black and white - not grey!

Thank you all for the kudos and insight. If there's anything I can help you with, you know where to find me.

- Lori
 
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Congratulations Lori! Whoo hoo! :cheers



With your new position comes another title... By the [ self annointed ] powers

in me, I do hearby officially present you with the title of "The Door Guru" ! :mrgreen:

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LGreene said:
but I'm trying to learn more about how doors fit into the bigger picture too.
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In addition to fire rated separation walls, penetration/opening protection, dampers and smoke tight assemblies..........doors rank right up there with the most important. That's why we try to teach soooooo many people to sleep with their bedroom doors closed (in residential) and remove the chalks in commercial or industrial. People just don't realize how fire behavior acts and reacts when ventilation is introduced or supported by one's actions or ommissions.

Regarding the "Gray" the codes will never address all potentials regardless how hard we try....... all the more reason for understanding the intentions the code making body has for what they finally agree upon to enter the documents and those tasked with enforcing and using it have to explain to our customers so they get it.

EDIT....Wow sorry for that runing on empty long and incomplete sentence :0
 
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FM William Burns said:
That's why we try to teach soooooo many people to sleep with their bedroom doors closed...
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We need to step up this effort somehow. Someone just sent me a tweet saying that they were never taught to sleep with their bedroom door closed, and neither was I. My kids were not taught that in school. Today I had lunch with 3 students from MIT studying fire doors, and we were talking about the Chicago apartment fire with the door propped open for the cat, and none of them had ever thought about what happens when you prop open a fire door. I asked them, what do you do if your clothes catch on fire? Immediately, all 3 of them said, "Stop, drop, and roll!" Closing the door has to be incorporated into the school curriculum. My daughter's kindergarten class just did a unit on fire safety and they incorporated one I didn't remember from school - "Let the firefighter see you."

Who's in charge of these fire safety materials, and how do I convince them to teach kids to sleep with their door closed???
 
Who's in charge of these fire safety materials, and how do I convince them to teach kids to sleep with their door closed???
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Lori,

It depends on the fire department and how proactive they are about fire prevention. Some are great and well some are not. Many in NE are volunteer but you can find someone in every department who has a gift and who can teach.

I did the hero stuff and just decided I would make a greater difference in prevention and enforcement (not meant to be pretensious).

I've been teaching it for over 25 years just like:

Feel (the or a) closed door or knob with the back of your hand. If hot...don't open, the fire is on the other side, crawl to you next exit...the window.

Learn how to open your windows.

Stay Low & Go and Crawl like G.I. Joe

Kitchen Safety Zone

Don't hide get outside

Make a Fire Plan

Check to see if you can hear the alarm when your asleep

(Plus More)

Feel free to pass along it's a 30 minute presentation I also modify for HS kids and those heading off to College. It's all in the delivery ;)

Made a video many years ago with the National Fire Safety Council...don't know if it's still available but would be willing to hit the road again :)
 
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