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Lives in:: Joshua Texas

Department:: Steele Creek retired

Title/rank:: FF, President, Instructor, Hazmat Tech

Years of public service:: 40

Agency structure:: other

Top issues in your department:: CAFS

Professional Qualifications:: Invented CAFS

Topics you provide training for:: CAFS structural industrial and wildland

Areas of expertise:: Foam

Web site:: http://www.cafsco.com

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At 9:31pm on February 27, 2012, Tom Brown said…: Thanks mark

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Window shooting with CAFS

I appreciate you asking for my opinion about this video and the LA/C use of CAFS for outside initial attack. I have used this tactic for many years and it has never failed me to gain quick control of structure fires, even when I used to be working State and Federal forest fires that involved homes and buildings. We did not have proper PPE to inter the structures until the fire was out. I was very glad to see the window tactic in the video using a straight stream of water. It works best…

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