As some of you might know I have trained to be a volunteer fire fighter. I had my first fire/structure fire last night.... here's my post from a firemans' board.
4:00 AM this morning whole district is banged out for a confirmed stucture fire WITH possible occupants still inside... futhermore the house is a few blocks from our firehouse in the district. Let me also say I'm out of academy oh, about 5 weeks.
I got on the ladder and they said be ready to go on air, so I turned the bottle on, good it worked... mask on regulator ready to go. The engine right in front of us laid the 5" and we pull up in front, through the roof on D side. Front door is cracked open, I shout in for anyone, me and my captain scott up and head inside, room and contents already flashed and into the hall way, no way we're getting up the stairs. The nozzle came in about a minute later hit it really hard and darkened the whole house, so now my search was in pitch black instead of a haze. Got through the rooms, nothing, then we got the word that occupants were at the neighbors, thank God, but would have liked to know that a few minutes earlier.
From that point I ran a lot of gopher jobs pulled lines and cleaned up.
The fire worked its way into the 2 different attics on the split level conversion but we managed to save the house. New roofs and probably a whole new second floor but it could have been a gonner.
Oh by the way it was about 12 degrees and snowing last night. And our house being first in laid 700 feet of 5" and 2 handlines. Frozen solid. We managed to roll up the 5" and thawed it at the house and rebedded most of it, the rest tonight.
Now time for a hot shower, hot coffee, and get to work.
Thanks for listening.
Jeff
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2005-01-18, 09:48 AM
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