Jul 14, 2015
Deputy Chief Nick Miller was first-in on a residential trailer home fire that resulted in two close calls. The first occurred when Miller’s SCBA was running out of air and he did not hear the alarm. The second occurred when a captain and recruit firefighter were over run by heat and had to bail out a window to survive.
Lessons learned included:
- The need for teamwork and crew coordination.
- The need to ensure communications are heard and understood.
- The need to coordinate incident activities and priorities.
- The importance of avoiding independent action on a fireground.
- The impact of task fixation
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