Live Burn Pictures

[Rescue2947]

Just thought I would share a few pictures of our last training. We were privlaged enough to recieve a house to practice a live burn with. The home owner purchased the property but didnt want the house and contacted us.

We have been working on this house for 3 training evalutions. First night we practiced search and rescue with dummies and smoke machine, no fire envolvment.

Second night we practiced some ventalation and Rit team practice, and forcable entry.

Third night we did some burns, we Started 3 small one room burns and walked our rookies through the basics. After that we wanted to practice trench cuts to cut the fire off. We let the fire consume half the house and then went to work with the Ladder and interior teams at the front door and back door. From here we wanted to cut the fire spread off and only allow one portion of the house to burn and protect the rest.

This training went well, all objectives were completed safley. We still have one more evalution with the rest of the house which will deal with more burns after we review the last training.

Here are some photos I selected out of the 200 or so that were taken, enjoy.

This is a picture of the house with partial involvment.
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/firegrounds4.gif


Here is a picture of exterior attack just keeping the flames in control during the burn.
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/Firegrounds1.gif

Picture of the back door where we were going into the kitchen to push back the fire into the burned section. We were using the ladder of fog stream up top also to help control the fire from spreading to the unburned portion.
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/Firegrounds2.gif

Action photo.
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/firegrounds3.gif

Picture of me taking a break and getting some refreshments.

http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/Me.gif

[Crisb1419]

Why is the mailbox 15ft in the air. What the hell do you have delivering your mail. A MONSTER TRUCK

[Res343cue]

Originally posted by Crisb1419
Why is the mailbox 15ft in the air. What the hell do you have delivering your mail. A MONSTER TRUCK

Must be for the bills ;)

[Rescue2947]

Originally posted by Crisb1419
Why is the mailbox 15ft in the air. What the hell do you have delivering your mail. A MONSTER TRUCK

lol i knew this would come up. The owner said it was for Airmail. I thought it was kinda funny, there must be somthing there that we dont know :D

[Crisb1419]

Must be an inside joke, cool pics though. But I am going to use that picture in some of my Power Point I use when I teach.

Stay Safe

[Spectre08]

Yay pictures! keep posting them, I'm living vicariously through all of you until October.

[hwoods]

Originally posted by Crisb1419
Why is the mailbox 15ft in the air. What the hell do you have delivering your mail. A MONSTER TRUCK

There are several of those around these parts. They're labeled "Air Mail" but are actually Birdhouses. I have NOT had to operate at an incident involving one. Yet. :eek:

BTW, 2947, Got a better photo of the vehicle behind you in the last shot?

[Berks2Montco84]

Originally posted by hwoods

BTW, 2947, Got a better photo of the vehicle behind you in the last shot?

Ewww, it's not ripe yet, put it back on the stem! Lol, joking, of course. Nice pictures though. What would the SOP's be for one of those birdhouses on fire? Would you ladder all four sides and two sticks to the roof? Do you think a high-rise kit would be needed? Probably a good size pump too, the elevation increase would definitely mean a good amount of pressure would have to be coming out of the pump to even get a trickle at the knob....okay, I'll stop now before I go completely insane....

[chrnea]

Originally posted by Berks2Montco84


Ewww, it's not ripe yet, put it back on the stem!
ROTFLMAO. That is too funny. I litterallfell off my chair when I figuresd out what you were talking about. (no it wasn't several minutes. just a second or two)
Obviously you prefer the BRT over the BYT. :D :D :D

[Berks2Montco84]

Originally posted by chrnea

ROTFLMAO. That is too funny. I litterallfell off my chair when I figuresd out what you were talking about. (no it wasn't several minutes. just a second or two)
Obviously you prefer the BRT over the BYT. :D :D :D

While I do have a preference towards red, what with both of my companies having that, I really don't have a problem with any of the other colors. In fact, there's a company around me who's truck are green and white (it's the township of Limerick, so they've got the whole Irish thing going), which I think look totally kick ass. That joke was more making fun of the lively discussions that go around these boards about truck colors. I'm glad you enjoyed it though...;)

[Rescuepimp]

But, REAL firetrucks are RED..... LOL

I said this to an Otis AFB Guy the otherday, and he got wicked pissed

[Berks2Montco84]

Originally posted by Rescuepimp
But, REAL firetrucks are RED..... LOL

I said this to an Otis AFB Guy the otherday, and he got wicked pissed

See what I mean chrnea? Also, Rescuepimp, is there a possibility you're from New England? I hear that's where the contemporary usage of the word "wicked" came from....(And don't say it says on your member info, I have no idea what the Berkshires are.....there's a Berkshire Mall where I live, but that's because it's Berks county....lol...

[Rescue2947]

Originally posted by hwoods

BTW, 2947, Got a better photo of the vehicle behind you in the last shot?

Yes woods I have a few more picts of the truck.

http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/ladder51.gif
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/ladder512.gif

Here is also a few more pictures from the fire.



http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/house1.gif
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/house2.gif
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/house3.gif
http://firetraining.stielstras.com/Fire%20Training/house4.gif

[WaffleHut]

The mailboxes are that high for all the snow we used to get up here ;)

[Spectre08]

In college station, where I went to school for a while, the fire department has white trucks with blue trim and graphics and such.

they're BEAUTIFUL

[britfan1]

Originally posted by Berks2Montco84


Ewww, it's not ripe yet, put it back on the stem! Lol, joking, of course. Nice pictures though. What would the SOP's be for one of those birdhouses on fire? Would you ladder all four sides and two sticks to the roof? Do you think a high-rise kit would be needed? Probably a good size pump too, the elevation increase would definitely mean a good amount of pressure would have to be coming out of the pump to even get a trickle at the knob....okay, I'll stop now before I go completely insane....

Full high rise assignment. lobby control set up in the newspaper box ;)

As for the BYT issue...Chesterfield, Va has had yellow rigs for 30+ years...now white over yellow with blue striping.

CFD Station 14 had an '83 ALF tractor drawn aerial with a 6 man cab. The nickname for this huge rig was (What else would you call something bright yellow and a bit over 60 feet long)'The Big Banana'

As for the pics...awesome job!

Rob