Random thoughts, opinions and facts on firefighting and training.

Cooling outside of the fire compartment will probably do very little to suppress the fire fire behavior fire suppression Mar 21, 2023

This is a video clip from training in an acquired...

Cleaning the lens on a thermal imager camera (TIC) is important for image clarity fire behavior fire suppression Mar 17, 2023

This is video footage from a live fire training in an...

What is a fuel limited fire? fire behavior Sep 02, 2022

Well once I thought I understood it, then I did not, and...

Smoke igniting outside the primary fire compartment fire behavior Oct 27, 2021

In this video we are watching the small hallway...

It is hard to see when smoke might ignite fire behavior Sep 30, 2021

This video is from a training fire in an acquired...

Finding the fire with the thermal imager camera fire behavior Sep 22, 2021

One important task of the first crew inside is to...

Negative pressure in the fire compartment at suppression fire behavior fire suppression Aug 30, 2021

In this video we can see the short initial pressures...

Wind changes inlets and outlets fire behavior Aug 12, 2021

In this video we can see the moment when the windows...

Fire compartment is over pressurized when closed fire behavior Jul 21, 2021

In this video, the door to the fire compartment is...

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