Another Scenario

You are at a working house fire and have men inside. You being a assistant chief watching the "C" side of the house you notice the floor start to sag about 7". What do you do? Lets say the house is 3 stories but you only see 2 from the front and when you go around back you find you have the 3. The coal stove has already went through the floor from what you thought was the first floor and fire was out the roof on the "C" side when the first unit arrived and you know the fire is pretty much knocked down.

A) Blow the air horns and get everyone out and finish from the outside.

B) Let everyone continue and let the interior Officer know that the second story floor in the rear is weak.

C) Blow the air horns and bring everyone out do a roll call and asses the situation and when deemed safe enough for a crew to be inside hand pick a crew you know can get the job done and send them back in.

Which and Why?

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Permalink Reply by Derek J Sinesi on May 14, 2012 at 10:00pm

I did not make this call. But was able to go to this structure a couple of weeks ago and can say i most likely would have call off a interior attack has soon as i made it around to the back of the house. I was told that the whole back of the house was full of flames from the bottom floor out the roof by the time the first truck arrived. So therefore i would have to presume that the floors where already burnt threw. I am still unclear if the chief was on the scene first or not.