VENTILATION PROBLEMS
BY BOB PRESSLER
On arrival, you find heavy smoke issuing from a two-story, multiple-occupancy commercial building of ordinary construction. The smoke seems to be pushing from every part of the building. Roll-down security gates hamper operations as you try to determine which occupancy is actually the one burning. The truck company splits into two teams. The first team, along with the officer, will operate at street level to remove the padlocks on the gates of all the stores, starting with the one that appears to be pushing the heaviest smoke. The second team will ascend to the roof position to try to provide vertical ventilation as well as to inform the incident commander of conditions in the rear of the building.
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