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Joe Berchtold, an instructor at the Bergen County (NJ) Fire Academy, discusses considerations for advancing the hoseline into a burning structure.
Teamwork is essential to hoseline advancement . It's needed not only between ventilation crews and the hose team, and the search and rescue crew and the hose team, but it …
This week's drill involves the following knowledge/skills: hose lead out evolutions, advancing hoselines up staircases, types of streams and capabilities, methods of fire attack, fire behavior, use of nozzles and streams, and fire stream operations.
Ray McCormack gives important tips on proper movement and technique by the backup firefighter during hoseline advancement .
… once a month; we practice our firefighting skills more often, which usually are hands-on skills, whether hoseline advancement , ladder placement, or extrication. All these skills are practical and are definitely skills that should be …
… officer during each evolution. The past competencies have involved individual skills tests in SCBA donning, hoseline advancement , hydrant hook up, ventilation, and roof ladder deployment. The goal was to build on individual skills and …
… firefighters from entering through a door so they were forced to enter via a window. This debris also slowed hoseline advancement through the structure, forcing firefighters to find their way around obstacle after obstacle. The occupant …
… it always go well? No. In typical single-family homes, we can encounter various obstructions that hamper hoseline advancement or void spaces which allow the fire to extend vertically and horizontally into inaccessible areas, thus allowing …
… occupancy; numerous locked doors that deny areas of refuge to firefighters; huge fire loads resulting from delayed hoseline advancement , slower search operations, a greater number of occupants with their furniture/belongings, and a lack of …
… occupancy; numerous locked doors that deny areas of refuge to firefighters; huge fire loads resulting from delayed hoseline advancement , slower search operations, a greater number of occupants with their furniture/belongings, and a lack of proper …
