First Due Friday; Grillin’ Season

Arriving with an Engine company of 3 firefighters…I would lay in, give a size up, and do a 360.

We do not get a view of the back side, but with the description it sounds like a grill got to close to the house caught fire and extended from the exterior into the attic. Judging by the smoke this is clearly an attic fire that is intense but not yet reaching flashover.

Depending on what I saw on my 360 I would probably deploy a line to the rear and extinguish the grill and exterior fire and can also make an exterior attac on the attic from the outside via the soffit.

Then once that is knocked down we can take the line inside and find the attic access or have our first arriving special service company begin hooking aggressivley so that we can extinguish the exterior fire.

Im fine with the company going to the roof but with minimal personel getting access to the fire and searching the occupancy is more the priority especially when you can see the fir self venting before they even begin to cut the hole. If possibly the truck driver (3 man truck company truck driver doubles as OVM) can put a hole in the roof, but I would rather have the officer and fireman from the truck inside with me ensureing we put the fire out rapidly.

Overall they did a fine job, just different resources operating differently.