Close the Door

摘要

There has been a lot of focus the past few years on controlling ventilation. Controlling the vent point goes against what many were originally taught and the opposite of what we practiced for many years. Because of the greater understanding of fire dynamics and ventilation-induced fire behavior, many departments, including some of the largest departments like Los Angeles County (CA), the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), and Chicago (IL) have adopted new best practices that have been successfully instituted on the fireground. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Do we still have to use our experience and knowledge to make intelligent fireground decisions that may go against what had been previously taught? Yes! However, those situations should be few and far between.