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Comment by randall puckett on March 30, 2008 at 10:36pm

true my brother we do have the habit to set back and say we'd do this and that til we all get in that situation then it all chages.i do agree with you it did seem like a lack of command..and the most important thing iiisss that everybody went home.but dont you think that most of it was true though,that interier or attack team should have been sent through the front door or if a side or a back door if possible to contain the fire as safe as possible?and tue the more you train the more you learn but in some situations no matter how much you train sometimes you dont think before you do you just in a hurry to react to the situation.thats what causes firefighters to get hurt or killed.dont you think?

Comment by Scott Runkel on March 28, 2008 at 12:19pm

It's easy for us to "Monday Morning Quarterback" on this fire. The important thing for this fire department is to review this tape and have a debrief on what they thought they did well and what they think that they could have done better. It looks as though command may have been lacking-or that the instructions from command may not have been clear enough for all the fire-fighters. Communication between Attack team, ventilation team and command was definitely the root of the "problem". Again the important thing is that it appears no-one got hurt and everyone went home. The next thing is to learn from this and practice it, and then apply it in real situations. TRAINING, TRAINING, TRAINING!!!!!

Scott G. Runkel
Alplaus Fire Department
Fire-Fighter & Paramedic

Comment by randall puckett on March 28, 2008 at 10:19am

why did they not do interior attack through the front door till they got to the source of ignition?send two teams in the fornt door or the side knock down the fire and ventilated over the fire as close as they could that is jst let the fire breathe the positive pressure fans would have done the job of keepin it contained in the effected area and then extinguish the remaining fire?the frie was in the back of the house so why are they in the front?