Recently, there have been some high-profile incidents and fires where roof operations have been less than ideal during operations. It wouldn’t take one a very long time to research some of the more ...

Reading the roof of a fire building starts as the apparatus nears the incident, including assessment of the roof's pitch and covering, of ventilation indicators, and of dead loads and structural ...

LELAND, NC (WWAY) — Leland fire crews recently conducted vertical ventilation training. The important training involved cutting a hole in the roof of a burning building to release heat and smoke.

Today’s fires aren’t the same fires of 100 years ago, but we’re still using some of the same techniques to put them out. These techniques were intended for conventionally built structures with natural ...