Posts Tagged: Vent
The Daily Drill 2: VES
Notice how the roof ladder projects into the window slightly. However, the ladder is already at a very low angle that could result in the butt kicking out. Should the ladder tip be removed from the window to allow for easier emergency exit/victim removal or does the angle of the ladder preclude this? What are possible solutions?
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Basics for Understaffed Truck Work: Search
By searching for victims and fire, we can increase the speed of fire attack and extinguishment which creates a safer fireground for everyone. This post will detail how to get the most out of your search despite various staffing levels.
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Release the Ladder Rack!
As apparatus drivers when we pull up to the scene of a working fire we are thinking about charging the appropriate line, getting the right gallons per minute to your interior crews and finding a water supply source before the tank water is exhausted. That is a lot to do and you normally do it all on your own. Well, there is one more thing I would like you to add to your list.
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VES Video
Here is a pretty good, basic video on VES (vent, enter and search). It has good demonstration points from the beginning of the operation to the complete search of one room. The thing I like about this video is the use of two persons for the VES.
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Be Careful Using PPV–Good Video
This video is from the Salt Lake City area and shows what can happen when you have hidden fire and use a positive pressure fan with crews inside the building.
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Company Discussions: Redeployment?
Time is running out for keeping this in check and an interior attack. We've all been here and we know how this can go.
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Ladder Bail Out Plus…..
Take a look at this video and watch and listen to the communications. There is a lot to learn here and these guys were under a lot of pressure. You can just feel it how they are talking and acting on the fire ground.
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Working Off Ladders
Don't forget the basics. Let's keep ourselves safe on ladders. Use your leg locks and/or lodder belts.
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Vent, Enter and Search
Would you use VES on this fire? What tactics would you use instead or in addition too to search for occupants?
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Venting the Roof
Take a look at this video and let me know what you see. I posted the still frame from this video and had some great responses. Now, here is the whole thing.
What do you see and what would you do different if anything?
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The Plain Clothes Vent Man
Don't allow this on your scene. There is no room for the Plain Clothes Vent Man at your calls.
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Roof Ops the Right Way
This is a good look at how to vent a roof the safe way!
Okay, I found it. The last two roof ops posts have shown the way "not" to vent a roof. (see Roof Ops and More Roof Ops)
Now, I have found a picture of how to vent the roof. I have to adm…
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More Roof Ops
Is there anything we are forgetting here?
First, let me make it clear, I was looking for a picture I have of a crew working on the roof the correct way when I came across this one.
I know, we have beat the first Roof Ops post to death and if y…
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Green Roofs and Fire Operations
Let's try to determine how we would need to change our tactics, if at all, on a green building. This is a house fire like all the others with the exception the roof is a grassy meadow.
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Safety, Safety, Safety!
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This should be obvious to most who look at this picture. We have a fully charged house fire and we are venting. There is no doubt …
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Venting the Roof
Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? Using a roof ladder is a good thing. Working in teams is a good thing. What are some hazards we see here? What is the main problem with this operation? Post your responses and I will post mine later…
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Roosevelt Hotel Fire 1963
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The ballroom held many events and this night hosted a paThe fire started in the ballroom and was said to have started from a discarded cigarrette but it …
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More PIV’s
These PIVs are on the same property. There is only one system in the building but there are two PIVS and two hydrants.
The owner cannot tell us if the building had different systems. My suspicion is that one building is older, which we know,…
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Fire Discussion 3
Okay, here is your kitchen table Company Discussion for the day. Let’s take a look at what we have going on here. The two pictures say a great deal about this fire.
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Remember the PIV?
Remember when doing inspections to check out the fire department connection. We all do that pretty well for the most part, making sure that nothing is blocking it and noting where it is for tactical reasons. However, I have seen crews miss checking t…
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Company Training Discussion 2: Residential Fire with Exposure
This is the response from the posting from the other day. Our fried Fred commented with the following details:
Assuming wood frame construction of main structure. Challenges: fire already past egress point at patio doors of main structure. Exposure …
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Woe the Shopping Carts
With the holidays over, so to speak, the big sales days are upon us now. You might want to check on your big stores to make sure things are in order.
As we can see here, the shopping carts have taken precedent over the people inside for access to th…
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Company Discussion 1: Responses
Here are some of the things that I see from this picture and that should be discussed with your company in resoponse to the questions posed.The general condition of the outside likely is the same on the inside which could make entry and advancement of an…
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Keokuk, Iowa: Ten Years Ago Remembered
keokuk Photos By Cindy IutziIt was ten years ago today that Keokuk, Iowa lost three of it's own in a two-family residential fire. In addition to the LODD there were also three children that perished in the fire as well. There is a great deal of inf…
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Tis the Season for Candles
I know I have just about beat this to death, but I attended two Christmas plays and a wedding in the past week and was glad to see that there were no candles in the aisles at any of them. This time of year we see an increased use in candles in plac…
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