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What's your battle plan?
Inspired by Firefighter Naum's 10 Minutes in the Street series, though not nearly as in-depth. Excuse the crudeness, it's my first post, and I'm not very good at all with photoshop.
Plain and simple, I want to know what your plan of attack would be, and how you would go about it. Cover all the bases, size up, manpower, apparatus placement, type of attack, ventilation, search, etc., etc. More specifically though, if you choose to go interior, I want to know how you would tackle this on an interior crew. Because if you're not careful, as simple as this fire may look, there is one area in this home involved in fire where you can get yourself into a lot of trouble.
1 story ranch style, SFD, Type V Construction, no basement. The detached garage is approximately 15 feet off to the B side. There is a hydrant within one city block of the residence to the East, another is 2 blocks away to the West. Winds are out of the West to Southwest at 5mph. It's a nice Summer day, low 80s with minimal humidity.
Key: Grey/Black = smoke, the darker it is the more intense and harder pushing it is.
Red = Fire, the darker the more intense.
Plain and simple, I want to know what your plan of attack would be, and how you would go about it. Cover all the bases, size up, manpower, apparatus placement, type of attack, ventilation, search, etc., etc. More specifically though, if you choose to go interior, I want to know how you would tackle this on an interior crew. Because if you're not careful, as simple as this fire may look, there is one area in this home involved in fire where you can get yourself into a lot of trouble.
1 story ranch style, SFD, Type V Construction, no basement. The detached garage is approximately 15 feet off to the B side. There is a hydrant within one city block of the residence to the East, another is 2 blocks away to the West. Winds are out of the West to Southwest at 5mph. It's a nice Summer day, low 80s with minimal humidity.
Key: Grey/Black = smoke, the darker it is the more intense and harder pushing it is.
Red = Fire, the darker the more intense.
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Permalink Reply by FETC on
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I am with Larry, my company would most likely make the same attack with our short response time post 360 size-up.
BUT given a map and studying it, this may have started in the 1/2 bath (the one without a bathtub) now if this is new lightweight construction and especially built on a slab (oven) with reading the smoke with lots of fire venting from this little 1/2 bathroom window... I suspect the exposure closet is going to fail and we will see the first lines interior crew in the entrance to the MB knocking the crap out of the fire, scream "mayday" when they realize they have now pushed the fire behind them (from the exposure closet failure) and are now trapped due to the wrap around effect.
Just my two cents... as Ben mentions the importance of a rapidly deployed backup line can avert this tradgey.
TCSS
FETC
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Permalink Reply by R Griffin on
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Definitely a backup line. Looks like a straight line to the fire so a TIC would be your best friend here for a quick location and knockdown. Hopefully it's still a room and content but with the window failure in both rooms you might be looking at extension into the attic. Good training thought though and alot of knowledge on the replies... Keep up the good work brother and BE SAFE!!!
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Permalink Reply by Smoke Eater on
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Yeah. Our responses are varied because we have about 20 members on our dept. And the fact that none of us all work the same shift at the same time, well, let's just say this could possibly be a call for mutual aid. And if we pull a 2 1/2 then we are in defensive mode as well. My original response was a little screwy because I'm also trying to get ready to help teach a mandatory class comming up soon.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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I have no problem with taking 2-1/2 interior, but not on a SFD.
We generally have either 3 or 4 on our engines, but we do a lot of 2-1/2 work with leader lines due to long stretches for set-backs, apartments with obstructions on Side A, etc.
For SFDs, it's 1-3/4 everywhere it will reach and leader lines to 1-3/4 if not.
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