How is your department handling new construction homes?

This was brought up to me in a disscusion with our Captian:

With the new materials construction is using now, how do they pose a threat to us on a scene? The floor supports that are being used now are made of press board and I think 1 by 2's. My question is, what kind of training are you doing to make your firefighters aware of the risk when entering a home made with these materials?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Everson on April 30, 2009 at 10:09pm

I had my crew select a type of building construction to present. They each put together really nice power point presentations on thier type. We watched them at dinner, then discussed the issues of each type.