Training Minutes: Air Entrainment and Hose Streams

In this new Training Minutes video, Cobb County (GA) Fire Captain Sean Gray and Los Angeles County (CA) Fire Captain Chad Christenson demonstrate a variety of streams and discuss the potential for air entrainment and its effect on ventilation and fire behavior.

Watch in the player above.

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