FireFighterNation

Preplanning your response area is always ideal, but when that can’t or doesn’t happen, firefighters in the WUI must understand how to determine which homes can be saved and which can’t. Rich Cowger discusses some key aspects of preplanning, as well as how to categorize structures during a WUI incident to determine their survivability and the degree of involvement required by firefighters for each.

Rich Cowger discusses some of the key items to look for when conducting pre-incident structural triage and the importance of pre-planning neighborhoods in your response area.