This is helmet cam footage from Truck 8 in Colorado Springs at a 3 alarm apartment fire with reports of trapped occupants on both floors. This footage has been made into a training video and shows some good examples of VES and points out areas where we could have improved our VES techniques. We know it is not perfect, but thought it offered a good first hand view of Vent Enter Search being performed by a first in Truck Co with poor conditions in some of the units. It serves as an example of a building fire where people may want to assume that civilians could not survive from the front side, but shows how many survivable spaces were found on the backside of the structure. The fire involved 6 units along with heavy fire involvement in the attic. It also started the siding and the soffit of the neighboring building on fire. The fire was contained to the original 6 units that were involved upon arrival . The building had 16 units total. Visit www.IRONSandLADDERS.com for more information.
