http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/firefighters-dont-fight-fires.html
- That's not the bottom line:
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2013/09/13/fires-in-modern-houses-burn-faster-hotter-more-toxic/
Meanwhile, fires burn much hotter, much faster than they did in the past. Collapses happen much quicker as wwll, due to the prevalence of type V construction. If anything, the residents have much less time to react, and the FD has much less time to protect exposures (sucks when a whole row of town homes goes off), or do a primary search while parts of the structure are still tenable, much less keep it to a room and contents, or just food on the stove, instead of a structure fire or full involvement, because staffing and deployment were pared back due to the infrequency of fire calls.
As far as the staffing part of the equation, four on a unit gets work done much faster than two or three. That's been proven many times over.
That's the bottom line.
- That's not the bottom line:
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2013/09/13/fires-in-modern-houses-burn-faster-hotter-more-toxic/
Meanwhile, fires burn much hotter, much faster than they did in the past. Collapses happen much quicker as wwll, due to the prevalence of type V construction. If anything, the residents have much less time to react, and the FD has much less time to protect exposures (sucks when a whole row of town homes goes off), or do a primary search while parts of the structure are still tenable, much less keep it to a room and contents, or just food on the stove, instead of a structure fire or full involvement, because staffing and deployment were pared back due to the infrequency of fire calls.
As far as the staffing part of the equation, four on a unit gets work done much faster than two or three. That's been proven many times over.
That's the bottom line.