“If we can stop these homes from igniting, we can not only save homes but we can save the firefighters protecting your homes from the deadly carcinogens that we already have to face in our profession”
When we all picture firefighters we usually envision the 1991 classic “Backdraft”. Firefighters running into a burning building with jacket half open, no breathing apparatus and exiting a minute later kid in hand unscathed. The truth is no a days we can’t take these liabilities. Fires in today’s structures burn much hotter and faster than yesterdays fires. I can harp on this as much as I want but this video shows it better than I can explain.
Where this possess a problem not only to your local fire departments for structural firefighters but also to firefighters responding the wild land urban interface incidents is that these firefighters cannot wear breathing apparatus.
As they work for days on end outside of these homes on fire, they experience all the carcinogenic effects of house fires without any respiratory protection. I can’t start to imagine what these effects will have on me in the future but I do know the smoke from burning structures is far more toxic than the smoke from forest fires.
If we can stop these homes from igniting, we can not only save homes but we can save the firefighters protecting your homes from the deadly carcinogens that we already have to face in our profession.