Apartment Fire • Victim Rescue • Stockton CA 

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FMFD FIREFIGHTER#782 the first to write about it and I am not a big fan of this message

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1phone1gamer we use something called a TIC, it's a thermal imaging camera that allows us to find victims in the smoke and in the dark from heat signatures

UncleSamsFInest although not alot of departments have them sence there so expensive just for acouple pairs

Night vision essentially works by amplifying light...it won’t help if the light is occluded by thick smoke. Thermal/Infrared detectors don’t need any visible light, since any object with temperature greater than absolute zero (-460F/-273C) emits infrared radiation, and because longer wavelengths tend to pass through mediums (like smoke) better than shorter wavelengths (like visible light), you can see through a decent amount of smoke with a quality thermal camera (this is the reason sunsets are red in appearance; at sunset, the light passes through more atmosphere because of the shallow angle, and less of the shorter, bluer, wavelengths make it through while the redder wavelengths have an easier time, so are more prominent).

I want to see helmets in the future, or respirators/ facemasks with TIC built into the screen. Imagine being able to just iron man our fights.

He even shut the door and closed himself off from the fire once he knew he was too disoriented to make a safe escape. Smart guy, honestly.

There are mask mounted thermal imaging cameras but they are expensive and they only assist, you can’t fully rely on them. This is why we are trained to use different search patterns with our hands and feet.

Its not, and they do.

Probably some junkie.

Rick Wall I believe what they are referring to is not the square footage of the fire damage but the volume of flames and all of its products of combustion. It's not the fire that kills people, it's the smoke it produces. Inside an apartment building like that, you can have a fire on one side and within 5 min the smoke and heat will be on the complete other side of the complex trapping people which could potentially have fatal results. So yes, a fire doubles every 60 seconds it's left not checked. If you watch and videos of how wildland fires spread, some of those are spreading so fast that you can't outdrive. It all depends on the conditions presented.

Unfortunately it's not as easy as 'square foot' damage; it's a consideration of changing conditions. We mean to say that, if left unchecked, a fire will most likely double in size of it's combustion every sixty seconds. As in: if it's a wastebasket on fire- a minute later it may be a wastebasket and the edge of a couch and drapes on fire. Another minute might be the whole couch and the bookcase next to it. We don't have UL studies, just personal experiences of averaging a couple working structure fires a month. This video called 'Every Second Counts' is a great example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-piofZLySsNc.html Also, 4x4 is 16. x2 is 32. x2 is 64. x2 is 128. x2 is 256. x2 is 512. Not 2,816. And again, we're not talking about square footage.

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