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Permalink Reply by Ringold15 on February 28, 2011 at 6:17pm

First you have to verticly vent the roof and from there you can attack it as you normaly would.

Permalink Reply by SMOKEnPipesJim on June 26, 2011 at 8:58pm

any Backdraft situation ventilate vertically at the Highest point and BIG The Problem with this senerio is Construction, if the Portion of the house (is "new enough) they The Charred affect through any trusses is going to be a problem..Because the residence was Occupied, You might be able to learn that X number of hours ago, is when he went to bed.... other times of the day It might not be as apparent. Going back about 1982(ish) we took in a fire reported to be out it was in a typical 60's split level 3 bedroom Ranch, doing a quick walkabout noticed some Darkened Glass, walked around back and the basement slider was stained and the smoke/heat was hot enough to condense on the glass.. WE called to establish a water supply we didnt have Hydrants in the area though this house was furthest in this small 2 street development from a 10,000 Pond... The Chief arrived and began yapping about opening up, not know the full story... we knew these houses were Joist Construction 2 of us went to the roof with a roof ladder , hoods and a pair of pickheads we popped a sheet of plywood and vented as the attack line move in Via the rear slider. Total text book the superheated Gasses ignited 6-12 inches Above the actual roof opening and Blow torched about 30' in the air (haha)the gasses inside had burned off all the oxygenand the fire actually burned itself 99.9989 burned itself out the heat was unbeleiveable. its amazing it didn't get just a little more oxygen,,lol