This is a quick drill for you company officers and acting officers. So much of what we do is coach and mentor our younger firefighters. When we are out and about we need to take the time point out things that might be obvious to us, but maybe not so much to others on our crew.
Use these photos to explain the challenges, dangers, benefits and tactical oppportunities with this roof. Share what you see and pass it on. You might pick up on something that someone else does not. But, maybe we can reach a firefighter with this drill that we don’t have on our crew. Maybe we can reach a volunteer that doesn’t have that daily mentor.
Share and thanks for reading.
Jason
So, here is what I'm thinking when looking at the roof. We have scuttle hatches to assist in ventilation. We have a very low parapet wall on the building, easy to not see or trip over and on one side we have no parapet wall that we could walk right off. The membrane is obviously not original and we don't know the condition of the decking underneath, take multiple tools for multiple materials. Have two means of egress in the ways of multiple ladders and have them atleast five rungs above the roof line.
Just some of my thoughts.
Jason