On arrival, firefighters find a one-story ranch-style home with heavy smoke pushing from the soffit vents under the eaves overhanging the home's exterior walls. The battalion chief in command of the incident suspects a fire that has either originated in or extended to the attic.
Bill Gustin, captain of the Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Rescue Department, discussed learning from past firefighter tragedies and technology in Thursday morning’s FDIC 2011 keynote address
At his Thursday classroom at FDIC 2011, Bill Gustin, captain with Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Rescue and 2011 keynote speaker, looked at methods for rapidly positioning a hoseline on an upper-floor of various types of multi-dwellings.
Bill Gustin, an FDIC keynote speaker and a captain in Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Rescue Department, explores the reasons “firefighters have gone from hero to zero in the eyes of the public in these hard economic times.”
Firefighters do their best work inside a fire building; that’s where they can most effectively save civilian lives and stop fire from taking possession of a structure.