My partner and i learned to cut in segments.
Fire fighter venting a roof.
There are two types of ventilation we deal with all the time at fires.
2 my experience taught me that the larger the hole the better.
Another reason for venting the roof is to see how far the fire has progressed.
Operating on the roof during a building fire requires us to have a secondary means of escape.
Ventilation is an important tactic at structural firefighting operations.
We determine this by reading the smoke seeing the fire vented looking at the roof material for signs of heat and our experience.
Firefighters may go ahead of the fire on a roof cut holes to access the attic and stop the fire from spreading through the attic.
Heat and smoke rise into the attic where the fire can move quickly.
However there are many other critical steps that we need to master in order to make roof ventilation an efficient process.
When we talk about roof ventilation we often focus on the cut itself.
One of the fastest avenues through which fires spread is the attic.
This will likely be the responsibility of crews on the ground.
Venting the roof like they did seemed like a lot of extra work that didn t pay off too much.