Our blog post this week (see the next post below) covers why we cut holes in the roof of a burning building. In the post we showed you pictures of one of our crews training on how to do this properly and safely. The building they were using was not on fire, it was donated us before it is demolished to make room for a new city park. Buildings on fire bring with them a completely different set of variables that we can't easily simulate with our typical donated structures.
In May of 2008 we responded to this fire in the Quail Run neighborhood of Forest Grove. When our crews arrived they found the fire burning under the home, but it quickly spread inside a wall into the void space between the ceiling and the roof. Ironically, Firefighter Ted Penge is not only one of the firefighters in the training photos, but he is also one of the firefighters in this photo from 2008 that was taken immediately after his crew finished cutting a ventilation hole in the roof of the burning manufactured home. As you can tell, the conditions during the real thing are quite a bit different then those during last week's practice. We thought that we would share this to show what a ventilation operation on a real fire looks like. To read this week's blog post detailing why we do this, please continue to read the next post below.
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