r/Firefighting • u/The_Road_is_Calling NH FF • Nov 25 '24

News Ohio fire department confronted about response to double fatal fire

https://chroniclet.com/news/411559/wakeman-fire-board-meeting-ends-in-shouting-match-over-fatal-fire/
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u/reddaddiction Nov 25 '24

Risk a lot to save a lot. It's as simple as that. The firefighters said it, "was too hot and smoky." Either they didn't have SCBAS or proper gear, or both, but if you know there's a kid in a house you better start getting gnarly.

And if anyone says, "YOU WEREN'T THERE... WTF DO YOU KNOW?," well, look at the room they were found in. Of course you could enter that room.

This is a training issue. I have a lot of respect for vollies, they're doing this shit for free. But they seem to have been under equipped and under trained. I'm not believing that this was an impossible situation given the state of the house in those pictures.

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u/Infinite-Beautiful-1 Nov 25 '24

Yep…. Room could’ve been entered from the outside it seems

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u/reddaddiction Nov 25 '24

The other thing to note is that the call was dispatched at 0815 and they walked out with the victims at 1130. Who knows wtf was going on there, but none of it was good.