It was a sunny but cold winter day. One of the many alarms for the Fire Department of New York fire brought a full assignment through the snow-banked streets of Brooklyn to a Queen Anne (balloon-frame construction, Victorian) private dwelling in which a fire was roaring to extension from the basement origin at the rear of the structure.
We have been discussing injuries on the fireground and their direct relationship to the performance or nonperformance of a vital tactic needed to support the interior firefight in a structure on fire.
Oh, no! Not another treatise on boring, old safety! Well, let's see just how boring it is. We start with a couple of points about the "job" as it relates to firefighting.
When do you cut a roof? and Where do you cut? We have reviewed this subject too many times. So why review it again? Because again it popped up and was very costly in terms of injuries to a brother.
This month, HERE are more simple thoughts about structure firefighting from which you can spin off all the regular, routine, standardized evolutions and tactical operations that have to bridge the gap from training on a blackboard to functioning successfully at the operation.