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Fireground Strategies -- Test Prep -- Multiple Choice Scenarios
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Fireground Strategies and Other Stuff from the Street
Hey allI have a new blog on the blog page called Fireground Strategies and other stuff from the Street. Would love feedback and comments. Also launching a radio show of the same name with Jim Duffy of CT on 5/23. Hope u can tune in and call in. Thanks for the support. Be safe out thereAA
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scenario #4 -- fire on essex st
Scenario 4-3: Fire on Falco StreetConstruction and area345 Essex St. is a one-family, 2-1/2 story wood frame dwelling built in the early 1900’s. Wood clapboard covers the exterior at the rear while asphalt siding covers sides A, B, and D. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with asphalt…
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New scenario #8
2-story wood frame, residential with flat roofattached on B side – similarexp D wood frame 3 story seperated by 5’ alleyexp C -- too shed 15' behind structureon arrival, fire extending out rear 2nd flr approx 20’heavy smoke 2nd floorno wind72 degrees2200 hrsWhere do your lines go? what size are…
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Scenario #8 something really different
95% of our time as officers is spent dealing with non-fire issues. How we deal with those often dictate how well we do on the fireground. Consider this situation and tell how you would handle it?What solutions would you offer to address the issue and ensure it does not happen again? Look at the big…
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scenario #7 something different
The sit: fire building is two-story ordinary with store on ground floor and apartments on top floor. It is at the end of a five building attached row, all with common cockloft and shafts between them. D exposure is a three-stroy wood frame residential five feet away. Fire is on the second floor and…
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Scenario #6 MVA with complications
It is 1500 hours on a weekday. It is 72°. Winds are to the east at 5 MPH. You are dispatched to a multiple vehicle accident at the intersection of Jamison Drive and Wheatley Ave. One of the involved vehicles was reported to be a tanker truck. Engine 14 is first to arrive and report that a 5,000…
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scenario #5 -- high rise
Scenario #9The time is 1700 hours. A fire has been reported in a 28 story fire-resistive high rise. The building is of center core construction with the apartments on the perimeter and the utilities, stairwells, a compactor chute, and elevators in the center core. There are two elevators in this…
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Scenario #3 -- fire down the block
the artwork is attached -- sometimes the picture gives as much info as scenario.. ..or more1210 Victory Drive -- the fire down the blockConstruction and Area:Victory Drive is lined with 2- ½ story wood frame residential dwellings. There are some older established homes and some newer homes. The…
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Scenario #2: Multiple Dwelling Cellar Fire
You have been dispatched to 4527 Park Ave. on a reported fire. You arrive to find a serious fire in progress in the cellar of a four story multiple dwelling of ordinary construction. There are exposure buildings of similar type and construction on either side, fifteen feet away. It is 2330 hours…
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row frame fire scenario
A fire has been reported at 1604-17 St. It is Saturday and streets are congested. The wind is blowing at 15 MPH from the West, toward the D exposure. The temperature is 30º. The time is 2135 hours. There had been a recent snowstorm and the snow that was melting this afternoon as a result of warmer…
