Firefighter Portable Radio Carrying Methods: Pocket or Strap?

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dc.contributor.advisorMilke, James Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorBrondum, Nicholas Josephen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFire Protection Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-27T05:50:32Z
dc.date.available2022-09-27T05:50:32Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractFirefighters rely on their portable radios daily for communication. This project examines firefighter portable radios and their carrying methods. Carrying methods such as radio pockets sewn into turnout gear and radio straps are examined with respect to carrying utility, thermal protection, and decontamination ability. Information was gleaned from several firefighter line of duty death and “near miss” reports, personal interviews, empirical testing, computational fire modeling, and previous studies. Tests were conducted with radios carried in radio straps both above and below the turnout coat, as well as in the radio pocket. Radios were exposed to a radiant heat flux determined from computational fire modeling via a radiant panel until the test radio was either unable to transmit or receive messages from another radio. From this analysis, it is determined that wearing a portable radio in a radio strap under a turnout coat is the most efficient and safest way to carry a radio.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/3we3-oojp
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29421
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFire Service Radioen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFirefighter Radioen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPortable Radioen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRadio Pocketen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRadio Strapen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTurnout Gearen_US
dc.titleFirefighter Portable Radio Carrying Methods: Pocket or Strap?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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