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People Trapped? Don't Panic - Do Your JOB!

In general, a report of "victims trapped" should not cause any major changes in your initial operations. They may cause slight alterations - like where you take your line, which window you VES, etc.但是你的计划/ sog应该lready be setup assuming there are persons trapped. When added information increases the likelihood of entrapment, we should be doing what we always do - just harder and faster!

Remember, all tasks work in support of each other on a fire. Abandoning one will reak havoc on the others. The results do not improve the victims chances, and put us at greater risk. I have seen many incidents quickly go south when everyone "loses their cool" after a report of entrapment. Things later water supply, ventilation, and fire attack are abandoned because we all think we're just going to dash in and "save the baby". When this happens we are often unsuccessful in our firefighting efforts, the victim usually perishes, and we frequently hurt firefighters due to our scatter-brained actions. By cutting corners we LOSE, and often then find out there wasn't anyone trapped!

As was the case last night, reports of a victim do not mean there IS one. And no reported victims (or reports of "everyone's out") do not mean there ISN'T one. Deploy in response to conditions and always give any known OR unknown victim their best chance. Don't guess on "survivability" from the front yard - you don't know what you don't know. Our job is to react to conditions, not guesses, and give them a chance. As I was once taught by a veteran truck officer, they are not out until our searches SAY they are out.

A video posted by Nick Martin (@nmartin33)on Jun 29, 2015 at 4:55am PDT

Great job by Columbia Fire Department 2nd shift crews last night. They demonstrated the effectiveness of these thoughts and made a rapid knockdown alongside rapid searches.

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