Fire Fighter Venting A Roof

There are two types of ventilation we deal with all the time at fires.

Fire fighter venting a roof.

Heat and smoke rise into the attic where the fire can move quickly. That said how much time do we have how much reach do you have and how much help do you have all dictate size. However there are many other critical steps that we need to master in order to make roof ventilation an efficient process. Another reason for venting the roof is to see how far the fire has progressed.

This will likely be the responsibility of crews on the ground. The guys on the roof kept stepping on the part of the roof he was cutting he coulda fallen in and he one fire fighter was sitting on the top of the roof where it was strucutally ompromised and there was a fire fighter inside the building wen the. One of the fastest avenues through which fires spread is the attic. But if resources are such the vent team may need to place both sets of ladders prior to making the roof.

Firefighters may go ahead of the fire on a roof cut holes to access the attic and stop the fire from spreading through the attic. 2 my experience taught me that the larger the hole the better. Venting the roof like they did seemed like a lot of extra work that didn t pay off too much. Ventilation is an important tactic at structural firefighting operations.

When we talk about roof ventilation we often focus on the cut itself.