Please select one of the topics below and prepare a well-organized and thoughtful summary for your research paper. The
topic chosen should expand on what you are learning during this course. Show how you understand the issues with life
experiences from the fire service. A title page, table of contents, and reference page are required, but are not included in
the assignment’s required page count.
Topics from which you may choose include:
Smoke movement in buildings
Fire movement in buildings
The importance of measurement in understanding fire behavior
Chemical elements that are especially important in fires
Fuel-lean, stoichiometric, and fuel-rich combustion
The three states of matter
The components of fire
The physical and chemical properties of fire
The chemistry and dynamics of fire
Materials and their relationship to fires as fuel
The characteristics of water as a fire suppression agent
Suppression agent strategies, methods and techniques of fire extinguishment
NOTE: If you have a different topic you would like to research, submit your topic proposal to your instructor and have it
approved before writing your summary outline.
Your summary should be 200 to 300 words in length. Also, you must list at least one of the sources that you will be
utilizing for the research paper. You are required to use your textbook as one of the source materials for your final paper.
You should also use a minimum of three sources total. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced;
