OVER TIME, YOUR NOSE IS GOING TO become a very good source for telling you the situation you might encounter. In light of increasing cancer rates among firefighters, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Unfortunately, we are all going to get exposed to some type of smoke and fumes during our careers; it's part of the job, and many times it's going to be when we're approaching the scene, walking up the stairs or down a hallway, or forcing open a door. Yes, we can protect ourselves by wearing our self-contained breathing apparatus; but, in many cases, it's after we get our first breath of "it smells like ...." With today's ever increasing use of electrical devices, we can expect to respond to more calls of an electrical odor.
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