Aggressive Interior Fire Attack • First Due to Fairway Glen Working Fire

On Thursday April 14th, 2022, the Stockton Fire Department received multiple 9-1-1 calls for a house fire on Fairway Glen Street. Engine 2 had just left a medical emergency in the area when the alarm assignment was dispatched. Engine 2 had a significant jump on the other assigned units and arrived first due to fire showing from a single story, single family dwelling. Engine 2 pulled a cross-lay attack line, mask-up, and commit to an aggressive interior attack. Almost all the windows in the living area where the fire is have been self vented. This provided a fairly tenable environment for the fire attack team; with less than 'normal' heat and better than 'normal' visibility. The firefighter focuses on an aggressive attack, playing the stream across the room and knocking down the flames. The captain focuses on bringing additional hose line to support the advance, and surveying the conditions around them for safety considerations and suppression strategy. The fire attack team had an effective knockdown within minutes of arriving on scene.

As the remainder of the alarm assignment arrive, each crew goes to work as predetermined by their order of arrival. Truck 2 arrives as first due truck and splits their 4 man crew into pairs; "2 up" to create vertical ventilation and "2 in" to search for life. Hose crews spent almost another hour extinguishing hot spots and conducting overhaul. Crews would remain on scene to conduct an investigation.

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