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Download or read book Developing a Quantitative Rapid Damage Assessment Procedure for the City of Durham (NC) Fire Department written by Danial C. Cremeans and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem is that the current damage assessment utilized by the City of Durham Fire Department is a subjective assessment that does not provide quantitative damage assessment data. The purpose of this applied research project was to develop a quantitative damage assessment procedure for the City of Durham Fire Department. The author used the descriptive research method to answer the following research questions: 1. What are the quantitative damage assessment procedures that are being used by other departments? 2. What are the required components of a quantitative damage assessment procedure? 3. What additional technologies exist to expedite the quantitative damage assessment process? A review of current literature was conducted.