驼峰日SOS做这个胶合板让我看起来空缺

Does This Plywood Make Me Look Vacant?

大卫·罗德斯（David Rhodes）

What if structures could talk? Would they ask rhetorical questions like, “Does this plywood make me look vacant?” knowing all along that there are people inside? In the urban environment, it is not wise to assume that boarded-up or “secured” structures are vacant. These types of structures may be houses in a neighborhood, stores that have been closed, or manufacturing plants that are no longer operational. Many city codes require that the property owners to “secure” the property. Owners do what they have to do knowing that there is no perfect system.

房屋可能在窗户和门上钉着胶合板或定向的链板。商店或工业建筑可能具有覆盖窗户和门的市售系统。这种外部伪装正是潜在的乘员正在寻找的。我从未见过有意志和足够时间无法进入的“有担保”财产。经常，在开车时可能并不明显的结构有一种方法。

空在火灾中服务这个词ice has taken on a life of its own. As it relates to a structure, it means that the structure is unoccupied by human inhabitants. Many departments have generalized the term vacant. I have even seen research papers on vacant structures and the correlation to firefighter injuries. Unfortunately, this has added to the developing risk-aversion culture that tends to generalize most everything. I have been guilty of misusing the term because of a normalization of deviance. It’s easy to just say “we have a vacant structure.”

不同的定义

消防服务的“空置”现在有几种不同的含义。它描述了某些结构的外观，这意味着目前没有人要向其他人支付租金或房屋付款，在某些地区，这意味着一个旧的破旧结构，使杂草从壁板上生长出来。

In many urban areas, an unoccupied structure is extremely rare. Most structures are occupied by someone for part of the day or night even if they are not supposed to be there. In many cases, these structures are likely to have fires and trapped individuals. These structures typically have no power or gas (unless it’s being stolen), so you have to ask, “How did the fire start?” The answer is that someone was conducting secret experiments in there and concocted a procedure of combining heat, fuel, and oxygen that spurred a chain reaction that began causing rapid oxidation. If there was no one in the structure and there is no lightning storm, then it could be possible that other pyrolytic conditions are present. It could be that magical forces were at work. If you discover this is the case, I do not recommend attacking the fire. More often than not, someone in the structure was engaged in highly technical activities like staying warm, cooking drugs, retaliating against others, or just screwing around with fire.

Negative Vacancy

I propose banning the use of “vacant structure” from fire service terminology prior to a primary and secondary search by the fire department. I am in favor of identifying buildings that may be structurally unsound as “high risk or structurally unsound” but not “vacant.” Flag them in your computer-aided design system, put big signs on the exterior, or use code enforcement to get them torn down, but don’t label them vacant. It is our job to determine if a structure is or is not occupied when there is a fire. The fire department does not make rescue decisions based on the economic status of the individual. A life is a life. The determination of when to “go or not go” should not be based on a self-imposed classification of the structure as “vacant.” If the structural integrity is compromised beyond your risk-management level of acceptance in a pretty house, you should not go. If the structural integrity is not compromised beyond your risk-management level in an ugly, boarded up structure, GO!

一旦现场，总体受害者的生存能力和结构性风险概况是“ Go或no Go”的决定因素。对“空置”的感知的前部具有有害的副作用，即产生一种冷淡的，缓慢的，而不是大事，“只是另一种空置结构”的心态。一直以来，有人可能死在里面。

One of my crews rescued a 60-something-year-old man from a structure that the initial crews took for “vacant” based on assumptions-not evaluations. These initial crews operated in the exterior defensive mode for more than 25 minutes because of our overemphasis on the term “vacant.” This perception was further reinforced as it was dispatched as a “vacant structure on fire.” When we arrived, we could see areas of the structure that we determined could be and needed to be searched. Just two rooms were survivable but the house, despite some heavy fire in three rooms and the attic, was not falling in or rotting.

我要求命令根据我们的评估从防御性转变为进攻，肯定的是，受害者被救出并活着。实际上，他只在医院住了一个晚上并被释放。如果我们继续进行外部火流，阁楼最终将被烧毁，导致天花板崩溃，与长期的一氧化碳中毒一起，无疑会杀死个人。

The Value of All Life

到目前为止，一些部门已经采取了“空置”术语，以至于在这种类型的部门分类的占用率中，即使是一场小小的火灾，也没有人被允许。同样，如果您有一个流程，可以确定不安全地进入的破旧，结构上不合理的建筑物，无论它们是否处于火上，这是值得称赞的，并且非常有价值的信息，这些信息应在决策过程中考虑。但是，它不应是内部某人的自动注销。请培训您的成员和指挥人员认识风险，并在有危险的生命并在确定居住者的可能性时承担经过计算的风险时继续冒险。

在许多情况下，这些类型的结构都非常涉及，风险管理概况使得只有一个或两个房间可以生存。这是一个完美的通风口搜索机会，或者至少至少有时间将窗户带入窗户，并使用热成像摄像头看向里面。您会在窗户上没有胶合板的房屋或建筑物上做同样的事情……至少我希望为了我们的消防服务的目的和未来。请在任何事件的前端摆脱“空置”一词，并在完成搜索后使用“全部清晰”一词。