Recent Articles
Posted By: Anthony Avillo, MS
Wed Oct 26th, 2022
In an attached building of any age, consider that there will be shafts between buildings. If you have an old, attached building, you must both expect and anticipate fire spread via shafts. Virtually all old, attached buildings will have light and air shafts somewhere. Your Roof Division should be gi
Posted By: Anthony Avillo, MS
Wed Sep 28th, 2022
Read part one here.
Let’s address attached exposures. These are more of a challenge to protect, but once again, if you forecast where the fire is going, request enough personnel to address your forecasted issues, and decentralize your command to keep your personnel safe and the fireground properly m
Posted By: Anthony Avillo, MS
Wed Apr 27th, 2022
Let’s discuss exposure issues and tactics over the next few installments. Where I worked in North Hudson (NJ) Regional Fire & Rescue, we almost never have a fire without an exposure concern. This concern must cause the Incident Commander to recognize that the stakes of the game have been raised and
Posted By: Eric Dreiman
Wed Oct 27th, 2021
Overview
Apartments, garden apartments and townhomes comprise a portion of the dwellings in nearly every fire jurisdiction. This article will point out the construction features of these buildings, the special problems they present under fire conditions, and will establish acceptable methods of fir
