November 2017
FireNuggets, Inc
Date: 2/1/14, Incident #876 (3 rd Platoon)
Address: 6812 Palisade Avenue Time: 1728 hours
Construction: 3 Story Wood-Frame (Peaked Roof)
Alarms: 3 alarms
• Personnel must be proficient in opening up
peaked roofs to accomplish vertical ventilation.
Assign additional Companies to complete this
task when needed.
• Despite the sub-freezing temperature and the
pitch of the roof, failure to get vertical ventilation
would preclude an interior attack.
• Cellar fire extended horizontally and vertically
through a framed out space adjacent to the
chimney running from the 1 st floor to attic in the
center of the building.
Siamese. It wasn’t illuminated nor placarded and
was in an obscure location.
• Have the Safety Officer look for FDC connections
during recon of the building.
• Remind Members to carry plenty of door chocks
and use them.
These are just few mechanisms in place to assist
a department in looking at themselves in a
productive manner and working together to
assess, evaluate, take corrective action, and
share. What does your Department have in
place? Mistakes and critical information not
turned into lessons are doomed to be repeated.
Stay safe out there.
Quote of the day:
• Once the main body of fire is knocked down, it is
a race to get ahead of the vertical extension. “Flawed orders guarantee flawed results. Orders
should not be sprayed around like cheap
perfume” Ed Flood Full Contact Leadership
• Wire lath can impede the opening up of the walls.
One solution is to use cutters edge saws instead
of axes, halligans and pike poles. This can allow
walls to be opened up rapidly. Questions, comments, column suggestions,
kudos, or criticism – email is
[email protected]
• Although the basement was sprinklered, the fire
was above the heads and the system did not
operate
• Watch for FDC’s in these types of buildings. This
FDC was a single threaded 2 ½ pipe, not a
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