Saturday, January 31, 2009

Fire Fighter Close Calls

We recently had a close call at a home where there was a report of a house fire.The fire was located in the furnace of the heating unit under the house. We never saw the the fire since it was located within the heating unit.We cut the power on the house and smoke cleared the residence.Thermal Imaging was showing 50 or 60 degrees max at the hottest place.Seem under control for quite awhile(15 or 20 mins).Some guys were investigating in the crawl space under the home.When they opened the inspection panel the leaking oil flashed out causeing everyone to hurry out from under the crawl space.We used a 1 3/4 hoseline to handle the flame after some very tence moments.

Anyhow if you were there comment about that incident since I wasn`t under there when it happened.And if anyone has any other stories of close calls post them on here so we can hopefully aviod those in the future.

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