multistory apt bld owned by boston housing authority - fire on floor 5 i think
411 am - request for 2nd alarm '42 pipe' requests water IC wants to know who the 2nd alarm ladders are - fire alarm gives him the 2nd due ladder - IC asks again for the 2nd alarm ladders - fire alarm says TL10 and L15 - IC wants both to report to the front - TL10 says they are already in the building - IC says TL10 can stay in the building - all the while, Ladder 4 calls about 5 times and finally gets thru to report that fire is knocked down, and the primary search is negative I never heard reports on searches on the upper floors - I never heard the secondary on the fire floor announced some units say XXX calling YYY - some say YYY from XXX or XXX to YYY - sometimes 'Engine 42' = 'Engine 42 portable' = 'Engine 42 Officer' on the radio it sounds like everyone is doing their own thing - luckily, a hose line can only be pulled in 1 direction - and a ladder can only go in 2 directions - so it is much easier to have uniformity of the physical actions at the fire scene - but on the radio, it is a free for all - the loud evacuation alarms that continue to sound inside the building dont help with radio comms either - when Ladder 4 is in a mask and standing next to a blaring fire horn in a hallway, it is almost totally impossible for anyone to understand him even if he is getting into the repeater system 100% Firefighters nowadays have pretty good SCBA, pretty good bunker gear, pretty good radios, pretty good hoses and fire trucks, and thermal imaging cameras - but if the communications has to revert to yelling out the window from the 5th floor - then of course a lot of fireground effectiveness is lost. Of course I am not a firefighter - so I dont know what I am talking about. -- <http://groups.google.com/group/menotomy02474/browse_thread/thread/ea104aa8746404b2#> Genocide in the 20th Century --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
