Comments - Response to ISFSI Firefighter Safety Call to Action, Scott Corrigan - Fire Engineering Training Community2024-03-29T15:57:44Zhttps://community.fireengineering.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1219672%3ABlogPost%3A592560&xn_auth=noThanks for sharing. I concur…tag:community.fireengineering.com,2014-02-21:1219672:Comment:5925662014-02-21T01:10:00.570ZDavid Rhodeshttps://community.fireengineering.com/profile/DavidRhodes200
Thanks for sharing. I concur with your approach and assesment. I think you have pinned the definition of what I would call "smart courage"
Thanks for sharing. I concur with your approach and assesment. I think you have pinned the definition of what I would call "smart courage" Good work Scott, your commen…tag:community.fireengineering.com,2014-02-21:1219672:Comment:5925642014-02-21T00:43:33.935ZMark Cumminshttps://community.fireengineering.com/profile/MarkCummins
<p>Good work Scott, your comments need to be herd and understood. I, for one, have pushed for change most of my 40 years of fighting fires and teaching the use of a product that has been praised by many and criticized by others. I have seen how training can miss the most important basic information needed to do the best job possible. An example; nozzle handling, it is not enough to teach the student to open the nozzle and squirt the water at the fire. The student needs to learn what and why…</p>
<p>Good work Scott, your comments need to be herd and understood. I, for one, have pushed for change most of my 40 years of fighting fires and teaching the use of a product that has been praised by many and criticized by others. I have seen how training can miss the most important basic information needed to do the best job possible. An example; nozzle handling, it is not enough to teach the student to open the nozzle and squirt the water at the fire. The student needs to learn what and why the fire is doing what it is doing in order to know how to kill it the best way possible. Simply flowing water into a window or into a room may not work well if the water or foam is not applied in the best way to absorb the heat, create the most steam to create positive pressure (to keep the oxygen out), sweep the smoke (if you have foam) to clear the air of toxic gases with foam, and hit the base of the fire to cool the material that is pyrolizing into the flammable gases. I have even seen the brush fire fighters spraying water on the black (already burned) areas and wasting limited water. I have seen fire fighters pass up fire to reach more fire and then have to back up or be burned up. The UL and NIST information is the best thing I have seen in many years to understand fire and why "you can't push fire with water" and get water or foam on the fire as soon as possible to stop it from making more heat while we are making plans and trying to remember and follow acronyms. </p>