The Fire Engineering Advisory Board is comprised of recognized leaders in the U. In this blog, our board members share their timely insights on issues, trends, and policies in the fire service. I was the Operations Deputy and responded to this early morning fire from home about three miles away. The fire had entered the exterior stairs and balcony and trapped a wheelchair bound man in the very corner apartment. At this fire I had a battalion chief (Gary Martin) take a crew into a second floor apartment in advance of the fire with a 2 1/2″ line. read more

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