Remember one of the golden rules on a structure fire? Your dispatched to a structure fire in a rule part of town and your firs out as a volunteer engine company.There is only you and your engineer,you arive on scene single family dwelling fully involved pull your cross lay and your engineer is charging the line.

Funny story but true as we got close to the house this was about the time i tried to put my regulator on my mask it would not go on Hmmm well come to find out a piece of plastic broke off on the regulator rendering it useless.never the less we took care of that. but i digress the paid crew showed up after we had the fire put out he he he.During the mop up process a paid captain from our central point station needed to feel important so i gave him the nozzle he needed more hose so i was shagging some hose for him he yanked real hard on the hose and as a result i went out the side window lucky for me it wasn't a long fall down.Can you imagine when i walked up to the front of the house breathing air dark with ash and so forth the chief saw me with amazement ware did you come from? Funny story nobody was hurt.My point is 2 in 2 out Accountability Ware is your partner? always keep within an arms length or closer of your partner regardless of mop up or active fire at all times no matter what,your partner is your lifeline.