This is a basement fire with the attack position placing personnel on the intake side of the flow path for the safest and most efficient outcome. Watch the smoke and flame conditions and consider how much more challenging this attack would be if initiated from the floor above. Credit: manchesterctfire Follow Us FACEBOOK @flashpointequipment INSTAGRAM @flashpointequipment X/TWITTER @FPequipment WEBSITE www.flashpointequipment.com #flashpointequipment #firedepartment #firedept #bomberos #firestati
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This is a basement fire with the attack position placing personnel on the intake side of the flow path for the safest and most efficient outcome. Watch the smoke and flame conditions and consider how much more challenging this attack would be if initiated from the floor above. Credit: manchesterctfire Follow Us FACEBOOK @flashpointequipment INSTAGRAM @flashpointequipment X/TWITTER @FPequipment WEBSITE www.flashpointequipment.com #flashpointequipment #firedepartment #firedept #bomberos #firestati
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Understanding and Fighting Basement Fires: The ISFSI & UL FSRI 2017 Joint Research Project
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Tactical Impact: Basement Fires Uncovered Basement fires remain some of the most complex and dangerous incidents firefighters face. FDNY Lieutenant Dan Gordon shares frontline experience and expert analysis featured in Fire Engineering’s June 2025 issue. He breaks down the crucial challenges of identifying basement fires—emphasizing thorough size-up beyond the front door, including the “rule of thirds” for smoke behavior and the critical role of flow paths. Gordon describes how misleading indica
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Tactical Impact: Basement Fires Uncovered Basement fires remain some of the most complex and dangerous incidents firefighters face. FDNY Lieutenant Dan Gordon shares frontline experience and expert analysis featured in Fire Engineering’s June 2025 issue. He breaks down the crucial challenges of identifying basement fires—emphasizing thorough size-up beyond the front door, including the “rule of thirds” for smoke behavior and the critical role of flow paths. Gordon describes how misleading indica
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Basement fires can be difficult to control and extinguish once they have gotten beyond the incipient stage. Access and ventilation opportunities are usually limited, floor plans are often anything but standard, and fuel loads can be large including the structural members of a floor. Advancing down the interior stairs as a first tactic may work well during the incipient or growth stages of a fire, but when a fire has reached ventilation-limited conditions or has already flashed over, pushing down
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Basement fires can be difficult to control and extinguish once they have gotten beyond the incipient stage. Access and ventilation opportunities are usually limited, floor plans are often anything but standard, and fuel loads can be large including the structural members of a floor. Advancing down the interior stairs as a first tactic may work well during the incipient or growth stages of a fire, but when a fire has reached ventilation-limited conditions or has already flashed over, pushing down
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🔥 Still waiting to “see” basement fire conditions before flowing? That old-school mindset is burning firefighters, according to Northville Township (MI) Training Chief Jesse Marcotte. Marcotte breaks down the real basement fire attack — backed by fire dynamics and the latest UL studies. We’re talking convective currents hitting 15 mph and temps around 1300°F at the top of the stairs. According to him, if you’re not flowing water on your way down those stairs, you’re already behind the fire. Thi
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🔥 Basement fires can push firefighters to their limits — extreme heat, limited access, and hidden collapse risks. 👩‍🚒 If you were talking to a new firefighter, what’s the one tip you’d give him/her about handling a basement fire? – Common mistakes to avoid? – Best size-up strategies? – First steps that make the biggest difference? – Smooth bore or fog for the job? 🛠️ Featured in the video: TFT Smooth Bore nozzle with 7/8" tip and a ThunderFog selectable combination nozzle with spinning teeth
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Here are the two keys to success at a BASEMENT FIRE. 🔥⬇️ 1️⃣ You have to identify that the fire is in the basement. 2️⃣ The first line needs to go to the basement. This sounds insanely simple, because it is. But sadly, these basic concepts are often overlooked in real basement fires. And this frequently results in operational failures - or more seriously, firefighter injuries and death. Basement fires are one of the most common settings for a line-of-duty death. 🤦🏻‍♂️ And, most of the time, t
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A one-minute tip from retired FDNY Lt. Bob Chuisano on the best approach to a basement fire attack by way of the basement stairs. From the Gettin' Salty Experience podcast, Episode 34. #fire #firedepartment #fireman #firefighter #firemen #firefighters #firefightersoftiktok #firefighting #trainingtips #firetraining #firefightertraining #training #fdny #basement @gettinsaltyexperience
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