Acquired structure burns and their challenges! In less than 2 weeks, thanks to my friend Bartosz Klich, I will take part in a workshop on fire behaviour and tactics with the use of an acquired structure. Very typical structure for our country, be it urban or town or even sometimes countryside locations. 3 staircases for 3 different scenarios on each of the 2 days (6 altogether) preceded by 1 day of fire investigation workshop. Rotations of groups during a given day so that everyone does everything. I already asked 2 people here about their experience and insights about this kind of training but I thought that this will be a good topic for a broader discussion. What are your experiences with such burns? Conclusions, dos and donts (spelling?)? Any good advice? The plan is to do different aspects of structural firefighting over these 2 days. I will do size up based on conditions upon arrival, fire phenomena and ways of interrupting them, decision making in different situations (window missing, underventilated fire, signs and symptoms of backdraft & flashover), dolls houses on top (or to begin with). Then on the other day the onfluence of ventilation on fire development and PPV vs PPA. Other groups will work on organization of fireground, division of tasks, command, BA control, door entry, hose laying, nozzle techniques, ladder work, flow path control, tactics. Ok, lets hear it :) thanks
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:33:59 +0000