Ventilation on the fireground has been going on since firefighters fought their first fire. The reasons we vent haven’t changed, but we seem to have lost our focus on why it’s done. One term that’s ...

One of the most important tasks on the fireground is coordinated ventilation. In some areas, the procedure might be executed by a dedicated truck company; in others, it might be completed by whomever ...

Very few who are in the fire service will dispute the importance of controlled and coordinated ventilation. (In this author’s opinion, it is second only to proper hoseline placement.) Whatever your ...

April 17, 2020 –The UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute (FSRI) has released a new research report, “Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Ventilation on Strip Mall Fires” based on the third ...