Today surfing on Internet, have found an on-line free course that implement vertical ventilation and suppression tactics to attack fires in singles family homes.You can select your course path, completed (2 hours), abbreviated (1 hour) and instructor (2+ hours). The course has been structured in five modules: Module 1: Introduction Module 2: Modern residential fire […]
Tag Archives | tactical ventilation
PPA, positive pressure attack
Today I want to share some documents about tactical ventilation, the author (Arturo Arnalich) works as a Battalion Chief in Guadalajara Fire Service in Spain and he has done a great work related with this task. We can see two *.ppt about positive pressure ventilation (English and Spanish version), and a document that he wrote […]
Venturi or air circulation?, that’s the question.
Sometimes firefighters have to use vpp techniques to empty a room of smoke. But the questions is...with whome physical principles they can do this task possible? (más…)
Tactical ventilation, spanish ppt.
This is a Spanish *.ppt about #tactic #ventilation (basics concepts), in the next post I will share the English version. Ventilación táctica #2 from Daniel Cortés Blasco

Tactical ventilation, basics concepts.
Tactical ventilation involves opening ventilation paths with the intent to make the fire behave or travel in a certain direction. This direction is meant to help maintain the life safety of both firefighters and civilians. Here you can see two videos where leader company explain how to implement it. (más…)