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Saturday, November 21, 2009

RISING STAR

The dispatcher activates emergency traffic tones, then announces a collapse where firefighters have been trapped. Command adjusts tactics from suppression to rescue, placing attack lines or elevated streams in the collapse area to protect trapped firefighters from the advancing fire. Prompt rescue of firefighters lost or down in burning buildings is critical. There's an extremely narrow window of survivability for firefighters out of SCBA air supply or trapped by approaching fire. Normally, rescuers attempt to determine the last known location of the lost firefighters by tracing hose lines, then looking for arms and legs, listening for shouts, taping ...

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