Avoiding the Residential Mindset

摘要

While most firefighter deaths occur in residential fires, the probability of a firefighter being killed in a manufacturing occupancy is twice as great as it is in a residence, and nearly three times as great in stores and offices, places of public assembly, and vacant and special occupancies. Because most fires occur in one- and two-family dwellings, however, many firefighters have more experience fighting residential fires than any other kind. As a result, they tend to apply residential techniques to fires in other, larger occupancies. Unfortunately, the strategies and tactics that prove successful at small, residential properties are often ineffective, even dangerous, when applied at fires involving more complex, nonresidential occupancies.