Fire crews put out a house fire at an abandoned home in SeaTac on Monday morning. Around 4 a.m., crews showed up to the home in the 14400 block of Military Road South, where it took about 35 minutes to extinguish the fire. No injuries were reported.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

A double-wide mobile home on 3rd Ave. caught fire on Sunday, March 27 just after 1 p.m., displacing a family of four. Spokane Valley Fire Department was quick to send crews to the scene and saw the front of the house engulfed in flames, though it was unclear whether the flames had originated outside and were moving in or vice versa.
- PUB DATE: 3/27/2022 2:38:00 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

Revere firefighter Kevin Doherty loved firefighting and pizza as a kid. Talk about living the dream.

Now he’s married a 1968 Mack fire truck with an imported Italian wood-fired pizza oven and created Third-Alarm Pizza, a rolling pizza parlor that visits parties, celebrations, and community events.

The Seattle Fire Department said there were no injuries in a large boat fire that broke out early Saturday morning in South Lake Union. The Seattle Fire Department said a 45-foot boat went up in flames in the 800 block of Fairview Place N, just before 4 a.m. Firefighters contained the fire and it did not spread to any other boats docked nearby.
- PUB DATE: 3/26/2022 9:17:43 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

The Professional Fire Fighters Association of South Carolina Vice President William J. Pesature is taking fire departments to task for not properly staffing fire trucks responding to fires.

The National Fire Protection Association recommends fire engines have at least four people when responding to residential structure fires. Firefighters say Mount Pleasant and Isle of Palms don’t comply with that standard.

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Get the Edge You Need at FDIC 2022 with Vent-Enter-Isolate-Search: Increasing Victim Survivability

Description

Learn the techniques and thought processes necessary for successfully conducting vent-enter-isolate-search. Live fire and a series of visual and audible stressors that are part of this class will prepare you to rapidly solve problems you are likely to encounter on today’s fireground, including security features on windows, large and obese victims, rapid fire spread, hoarding conditions, flow path management, and the use of thermal imaging cameras.

Methodology

This class is taught using six separate skills stations. The course will be delivered under live fire conditions using scenarios based on the real world experiences of the instructors. In addition to live fire, a series of visual and audible distractions will be incorporated to create stressful and realistic evolutions. The students will experience situations designed to challenge their decision making skills. Topics taught will include: dealing with high security windows, diminished and limited window access, converting a window into a door, thermal imaging, VEIS in hoarder conditions, managing the large/obese victim.

Learning Objectives

Vent Enter Isolate Search
Building size-up
Rapid decision making
Hand tool and power tool usage
Ladder selection and placement
Victim profiling
Managing large/obese victims
VEIS in hoarding conditions
Removal and access through security windows