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Post by admin1 on Feb 22, 2009 12:41:14 GMT -5
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Post by Billy Lewis on Feb 23, 2009 22:36:15 GMT -5
Come on. I know there are a lot of good brains that look at this....teach me teach me teach me. Dont make me be the first to make a goatscrew out of these.
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Post by Guida on Mar 4, 2009 16:12:02 GMT -5
Alright, alright, stop begging. the first on is simple. I appears to be a single story, single family dwelling that is boarded up. Heavy fire from the roof. First line goes to the front door, putting water on the roof while the truck guys,(or back engine ff) forces entry. Once open, the line goes inside with a truck guy there pulling ceiling. Go in, take a beating and put the fire out, that's what they pays us to do. There is no room in this fire service for defense attacks because it's a board up. The fire started somehow and it could be by the homeless guy who is laying down in the front room passed out.
Second line needs to go next door (Bravo side) and check and extinguish any extension. This line can flow some water on the exterior of the exposure building before going inside.
Go in, put the fire out, take up, go home.
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Post by Guida on Mar 4, 2009 16:14:31 GMT -5
sorry for all of the typos.
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Post by admin1 on Mar 14, 2009 20:09:24 GMT -5
There's a reason I picked these two photos.
The first photo shows an abandoned house. We've already seen an increase in the number of foreclosed homes, and a resulting increase in "vacant" dwelling fires. These are often the result one of two causes: arson (the desperate homeowner hoping to get some insurance money) and squatters (the homeless guy staying in the vacant house starting a fire).
It's been my experience that these houses often have no furniture inside (which could mean fewer "landmarks" in low-visibility conditions), and occasionally have broken bottles/dirty needles on the floors. I was once told to sweep the floor with the nozzle before entering these kind of houses, so that any sharp objects would be pushed out of my path.
As Captain Guida (Justin Timberlake's number 1 fan; ask him sometime) mentioned, just because the house is "vacant" doesn't mean that no one's inside. I've heard of plenty of grabs occurring during fire operations at so-called vacant fires.
The second picture depicts a fire at a house where an addition is in progress. Again, with the economy on hold, many home additions are sitting still. My concerns here (please feel free to add) are that walls and ceilings may not yet be completed, resulting in large openings for fire to travel through the rest of the house and into the structural parts of the roof. Construction materials inside may cause entanglement hazards, and there may or may not be access into the rest of the house.
OK, someone with more time on than me needs to step up and add their 2 cents.
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