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Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
At 8am West Douglas County Volunteers were dispatched a reported house fire on Cathedral Rock Drive. Automatic aid from South Metro, Littleton & Jackson 105 was also requested on the initial dispatch. Upon arrival crews found heavy smoke showing from the roof. An interior attack was initiated and crews found a working attic fire. The nearest water supply was several miles away which required a tender shuttle. Crews worked inside for around 20 minutes before flames self vented from the roof and were wind driven. A withdraw order was made and defensive ops began.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
After all firefighters had withdrawn from the house it didn't take long for the roof to collapse.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
South Metro Safety Officers discuss the plan with the Battalion Chief
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
South Metro Battalion Chief Hendrix was the incident commander, but a unified command was established with West Douglas.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
MetCom Incident Dispatcher and West Douglas Chief's. The Incident Dispatcher has full CAD functionality with the iPad and can dispatch more units directly from the scene.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
West Douglas Volunteers try to keep the fire out of the garage which had several large propane tanks, acetylene & oxygen tanks inside.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
The wind was too much and the garage attic became involved, eventually collapsing.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
The entire 5,800 square foot home was destroyed. Most of the homes in this area are surrounded by tall oak brush, luckily this one was not.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
When defensive ops began, additional tenders were requested from Franktown & Larkspur Fire. Quite a long drive for both.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
Once the fire in the garage started rolling a 200' danger perimeter was established and the tanks were allowed to vent. Several exploded. A blitzfire was placed on the alpha side and the remaining garage fire was knocked before firefighters were allowed near the structure again.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
South Metro Tender 39 and the attack pumper, Engine 40
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention & Control had contract units similar to CalFire. West Douglas has two of them, Brush Tender 134 is pictured left and Engine 133 on the right.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-21-2014
And lastly... Larkspur Tender 161 bringing in more water.
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - hank - 02-21-2014
Good photos!
tHANKs
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - gmuhr - 02-22-2014
Great stuff!
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - npfd801 - 02-23-2014
Always impressed by the Colorado stuff. Especially enjoy the insight to the operational side of things. The Incident Dispatcher is a great concept from my limited understanding. We're about twenty years behind something like that here in our county. At least our department is putting tablets in the rigs in the next few weeks, so we'll have mapping, preplans, hydrants, etc. at our fingertips. Great posts!
Defensive House Fire, Sedalia, CO 2/20/14 - Guest - 02-24-2014
Quote:Always impressed by the Colorado stuff. Especially enjoy the insight to the operational side of things. The Incident Dispatcher is a great concept from my limited understanding. We're about twenty years behind something like that here in our county. At least our department is putting tablets in the rigs in the next few weeks, so we'll have mapping, preplans, hydrants, etc. at our fingertips. Great posts!
Thanks! The IDT concept is still fairly new here and only a handful of agencies have created one. There is a huge benefit to having IDT on the initial response especially for our wildland interface fires. Congrats on getting the tablets with pre-plans! Safety and planning wise I don't know what we would do without that information.