THE FLOOR ABOVE
BY TOM BRENNAN
Many of you interior attack firefighters will acknowledge that the position at the floor above the fire is the most dangerous during operations in a structure fire that is NOT under control. Well, as is the case in almost all firefighting lore, this is only true some of the time. It depends on the structure`s construction and the occupancy (use group) classification for which the structure was built. Frame one- and two-story buildings certainly are dangerous, but three- or four-story frame structures are even more dangerous to the floor-above person (er, ah, er, team). Why?
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