SmokeShowin
11-28-2005, 07:37 PM
Our department has been doing trainings at a house that was scheduled to be demolished the last 4 Sundays. Yesterday was live fire training. Previous weeks were rescuing victims and such using smoke machines.
Yesterdays training was over about noon (I missed it due to illness - damn!). They did several drills running it as if it were a real call. Trucks were staged around the corner, it was dispatched as a structure fire and proceeded from there.
The kicker is that at about 5:00 yesterday afternoon neighbors called and reported that the house was fully engulfed in flames!
Chief says it was most likely started intentionally as the crews had done a complete overhaul at noon when training ended.
Here's the story http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=4170705&nav=F2DO
There's a link to the news video at the beginning of the story. Some nice pics of E-2 (my truck).
Yesterdays training was over about noon (I missed it due to illness - damn!). They did several drills running it as if it were a real call. Trucks were staged around the corner, it was dispatched as a structure fire and proceeded from there.
The kicker is that at about 5:00 yesterday afternoon neighbors called and reported that the house was fully engulfed in flames!
Chief says it was most likely started intentionally as the crews had done a complete overhaul at noon when training ended.
Here's the story http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=4170705&nav=F2DO
There's a link to the news video at the beginning of the story. Some nice pics of E-2 (my truck).