FIREFIGHTER TRAINING DRILL: VERTICAL FIRE TRAVEL

01/02/2015

By Douglas Mitchell Jr. Vertical fire spread can quickly make a "one-room job" escalate to a multiple alarm fire. Knowing various building construction techniques indigenous to your response area will be an enormous asset to you. Vertical fire spread can be contained in short order...if you know where to look for it. One type of building construction used dumbwaiter shafts for occupants to move smaller items such as groceries up from the ground level to their apartments. It was a simple pulley and rope that brought your packages either to your floor or directly into your apartment. From a firefighting standpoint, we know that this shaft is a combustible chimney! The presence of ...

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