By Daniel P. Sheridan
Everyfire departmenthas its “bread and butter” operations. They respond to the same type of buildings. I have developed a standard operating procedure (SOP) for these responses. I am quite sure the local departments in New England have their SOP for the “Triple Decker.” Battalion Chief John O’Regan of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) Ladders 3 in the 1960s as a result of his company, Ladder Company 26’s, responding to the same type of tenement fires day in and day out. Ladder 3 became the model that every new firefighter in the department had to know inside and out.
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