Post by papacheese on May 28, 2008 15:05:46 GMT -5
While reading through the Charleston report, I couldn't help but get a feeling of deja vu (an affliction suffered by old hippies)...the circumstances just seemed too damn familiar to me. After giving the matter a lot of thought, I went back through my stuff and came up with the following 2003 NIOSH report used as reference material for an SCBA refresher class:
www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/face200318.html
If you take a minute to skim through the report, you'll find the circumstances and situations eerily similar....strip store, smokey fire, disoriented firefighters running out of air, large void space overhead filling with smoke, and misapplied ventilation.
What makes all this such a damn shame is the fact that anyone with an ounce of curiosity and a working Internet connection could have summoned up that report and gave it a five-minute think session. Do we have anything like this in our response local or it unique and out of the ordinary? Could something like this happen here...are there situations and targets where a situation like this has the potential for occurring? Are things different now than then? Are they better or worse?
Granted, not everyone has the time or inclination to go surfing for hours, but if the NIOSH website has one thing to offer, it's graphically dramatic proof of what doesn't work.
www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/face200318.html
If you take a minute to skim through the report, you'll find the circumstances and situations eerily similar....strip store, smokey fire, disoriented firefighters running out of air, large void space overhead filling with smoke, and misapplied ventilation.
What makes all this such a damn shame is the fact that anyone with an ounce of curiosity and a working Internet connection could have summoned up that report and gave it a five-minute think session. Do we have anything like this in our response local or it unique and out of the ordinary? Could something like this happen here...are there situations and targets where a situation like this has the potential for occurring? Are things different now than then? Are they better or worse?
Granted, not everyone has the time or inclination to go surfing for hours, but if the NIOSH website has one thing to offer, it's graphically dramatic proof of what doesn't work.