Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we’ll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
THE SCENARIO: Check out this “soupy” commercial job in PG County, MD. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Ready…Go!
- What is your initial report?
- Rescue considerations?
- Exposures?
- Confinement issues?
- Extinguishment strategies and tactics?
- Overhaul, what areas will you focus initial searches for extension?
- Rig placement?
NOTE: Thanks to JT for citing the source of this pic as being from the Berwyn Height VFD site @ http://www.bhvfd14.org/zarc1004.php via the Firehouse Guy.
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This is in Beltsville, Md. I cant remember the exact address but it is on Old Baltimore Pike. It was a motorcycle shop.
The picture in question is from Co. 14′s website, used with credit to FirehouseGuy. Both the RS and Truck responded. Here is a link to the story: http://www.bhvfd14.org/zarc1004.php
I actually was on the initial alarm on this fire! I remember that there was ammo cooking off under us when we made an attempt at venting the roof. Needless to say the initial address was a total loss and we went to defensive ops and protected the exposures (which was only a shoulders distance away on the charlie side of this building).
Thanks for the comments and the correct credits for the pics.
Be safe
Matt