With one of the leading causes of LODD fireground operations being firefighters caught in flashovers, one must ask what is the reasoning behind this? Are we just too aggressive? Are we searching in areas victim survivability profiling would say are non-tenable? I would venture to say that a refresher in reading smoke may prevent many of these situations..
Smoke can tell us so much about what sort of fire we have, what may be burning, is it structural or still room and contents, where it is, where its going, etc...
I'm not going to try and re-invent the wheel here, just encourage you to take some time to include reading smoke in your personal and company trainings. Start with this video, it's ten minutes and full of great information about reading smoke. It's a great start. Then from there, open some other fire videos, pause it in the beginning, read the smoke and ask yourself questions and answers about your opinions. Watch the video and see if your right....
The art of reading smoke
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