Firefighting Tactics

NIST is trying to change the firefighting tactics and strategy in order to make the job safer for firefighters, and also to decrease victim’s mortality rate. The idea is by cooling the house on fire by throwing water on it, either from inside or outside, by doing so, it’ll also decrease the toxic gases inside the house. When a building in on fire, two things will help put the fire out, adding water to the fire and by having a proper ventilation.
It is undeniable that has been changes in the residential fire environment over the decades. Nowadays the homes are made with different construction materials, they are larger, with different geometries, they also carry more synthetic fuel loads. Because of these changes flashover will occur much faster and the failure time of walls, windows and interiors doors have decreased as well, all this holds a major impact on fire growth, and if it affects fire growth it should also affect firefighting tactics and strategy.
Having an understanding on fire behavior in residential structures, is the first step on saving life’s, knowing that the fire ground has changed due to the changes that have taken place in several components of residential fire dynamics such as size of the houses, construction types, materials and also the furniture. All these changes
The capability to remove smoke, heat and fire gases from a structure fire can seriously contribute with the ability to find victims. It generates an environment more survivable for those victims, decreases the environmental impact on firefighters that have to operate in and will quicken your ability to ease fire control and extinguishment. Nevertheless, inadequate ventilation or adequate ventilation delivered at an wrong time can significantly increase the amount of work required to complete fireground tasks by spreading fire and increasing heat, and could contribute to the injury or death of