THE ART OF READING SMOKE

The current trend to get “back to the basics” of structural firefighting is indeed refreshing in a firefighting world that includes the challenges of providing public education, specialized rescue services, EMS, hazardous materials, and weapons of mass destruction/homeland security response.

“基础知识”获得前锋之一是能够“读取烟雾”来帮助预测结构内的火灾行为。阅读烟雾的能力已经存在多十年来 - 在20世纪70年代处理美国火灾流行的消防官员变得非常熟练。不幸的是,这些声音策略人士认为,阅读烟雾的能力是基于经验和直观的基础,除了在实际火灾中反复做法外,不一定要教授。此外,在阅读烟雾中开发的这些消防官员的技能不容易申请今天的火灾。低质量综合和消费者走向“大盒子”采购导致了更挥发的消防环境。要使事情变得更糟,我们正在响应更少的火灾:经验可以说是老师。要回到基础知识,我们需要教导消防官员如何快速解释从建筑物发出的烟雾,以便可以进行适当的战术选择。例如,可以迅速读取烟雾的第一届常付执行官可以做出更好的侵略火灾攻击或搜救优先事项的决定。虽然远非完整,但本文将捕捉阅读烟雾的本质,并提供一些尝试和测试的解释,以帮助消防官员在火车上做出更好的快速决策。

Reading smoke is not difficult, although for most fire officers, it will take an effort to break the “heavy-smoke or light-smoke” mentality that has come out of rapid “size-up” radio reports.

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