Salvatore Ancona
While you’re sitting around, always good to brush up on building characteristics that affect fire operations in a significant manner. Part of every firefighter’s common terminology, the cockloft is ingrained in every single member’s head as a negative building feature, and rightly so. The cockloft is a void space that is created between the top floor ceiling and the roof decking. (1)
Cockloft在III型（普通）构造建筑物中固有的常见特征，在所有类型的结构中再次发现。For the sake of conversation we’ll focus on Type III and Type V. The cockloft is created to enhance the slope of the roof, to use as a utility passageway, and to provide ventilation of the top floor as it tends to capture heat at the uppermost floor. (2)
Keep this in mind and hopefully take it to your kitchen talks and building construction drills….The cockloft is nothing more than horizontal balloon frame construction. If you know and understand balloon frame, then this should be in your mind in these buildings. This is an often unimpeded passageway for fire to travel and spread throughout a building.
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在商业建筑，纳税人，脱衣舞购物中心，行框架，低层多个住宅和办公空间中，科克洛夫特（Cocklofts）对响应打算取得进步的消防员构成了真正的危险。屋顶消防员在进行检查孔时遇到了大火，应尽快传递在Cockloft中发生火灾的可能性。例外是，当您开放自然开口（例如天窗，舱壁门等）时，您会遇到重火。这可能意味着在Cockloft下方的大火，但是应进行检查以进行延伸。在Scuttle开口中，您可以打破石膏板检查Cockloft。重要的是要在Cockloft中射击，因为它们可以迅速消耗多个附着的建筑物。虽然这不是战术谈话，但请探讨通风的方法，例如沟渠切割或涉及Cockloft喷嘴的抑制策略。
Pressure building up from smoldering and oxygen-deficient void spaces can create a deadly prescription for cockloft explosion should unsuspecting firefighters attempt to pull a ceiling or penetrate the ceiling from underneath. This may ultimately result in the ceiling and fire behind landing directly on top of members. It is very important to check the void spaces within buildings like this quickly and from a safe area, andalwayswith a line in place.
库克洛夫特（Cocklofts）一直是多个建筑物消亡的根本原因，更重要的是，几十年来，消防员的生命。如果您对普通建筑或附属私人住宅的建筑物做出回应，请：不管是什么原因是什么，请检查Cockloft。
Salvatore Anconais a deputy chief fire instructor at the Nassau County (NY) Fire Service Academy; a member of the Seaford (NY) Fire Department; a former captain and training officer for the Bellmore (NY) Fire Department; and a paramedic supervisor in Queens, New York. He has an A.S. degree in fire science from Nassau Community College and is in the emergency services administration undergraduate program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ancona is the author ofFacebook上的建筑施工页面“ Brannigan的儿子”并获得了2019年FDIC国际Honeywell Dupont奖学金的获得者。
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