Posts Tagged: Attack
First Due Friday; Heavy Smoke from a Commercial
Check out this "soupy" commercial job in PG County, MD. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Ready...Go!
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First Due Friday; 2-Story Balloon Frame Rockin’ on the Peninsula
Watch the video of this heavily involved 2-story balloon frame house. Note the wind and the exposures. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Have fun!
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2012 Class and Event Planning In Progress
Make training, professionalism and pride part of your New Year's resolution! We're in the process of building our 2012 calendar with intense, realistic hands-on training, interactive classroom events and good old-fashioned brotherhood.
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First Due Friday; Truck Arrives First at a House Fire
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we'll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation. This week, you are the Officer on the 4 person TRUCK company who ARRIVES FIRST at this single-family house fire. Due to other call volume, the FIRST DUE ENGINE is 5 minutes away.
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First Due Friday: “Big Box” Search
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we'll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
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The Initial Attack Line
Please join Jeremy Mitchell he hosts The Initial Attack Line. He will discuss the selection and placement of the initial attack line based on fire size, construction type, staffing and apparatus configuration. Particular attention will be paid to the spe…
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The Next 100 Feet of the Attack Line
When discussing attack line tactics, one of the most important points to remember is for the Nozzle Firefighter to always show up at the door with, at least, 1 section of hose often referred to as the “working length”. What about the 100 feet or so behind the working length? Who manages that hose and how? There are certain objectives, or good practices, that all engine companies should try to accomplish that will aid in advancing the attack line into the structure.
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LAFD Fire Captain Knocked Unconscious Following Blast
Engine 1 of the Los Angeles Fire Department found a 2000 Chevy Impala fully involved on arrival and attacked with a 1-and-a-half-inch line but had problems containing it.
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Tips for Advancing the Attack Line
Nothing is more fundamental, or important, when extinguishing a fire than stretching an attack line and putting water on the fire. These are just a few tips to help keep the line moving and make your attack on the fire a little easier, quicker and safer.
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Food for Thought: Pump Pressures for Attack Lines
No matter how much training and/or experience you had as a firefighter, the pressure of being the Driver/Operator, the one responsible for the safety of an attack crew, causes some to question what they know is right.
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