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Mark Cummins's Blog – December 2013 Archive (1)

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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Added by Mark Cummins on December 15, 2013 at 2:42pm — No Comments

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