Squatter Save: California

In Vallejo, California last week firefighters fought a three alarm fire in a vacant automobile dealership. In the course of operations firefighters also removed two homeless people. For a unknown length of time the dealership has been a temporary refuge for the area’s homeless. A month prior, Vallejo police and homeless advocates had been to the dealership to have the homeless vacate the property. Investigators determined that a fire in a warming barrel is the cause.

Relevant Training from Traditions Training
“”Vacant” Buildings?”
“Search Rope Operations Class”
Tricks of The Trade: Thermal Imagers

Also on Backstep Firefighter …

• Why We DON’T Search, Maybe, Kinda:
  Vallejo, California – April 14, 2011
• Detroit’s “Paradigm Shift” Jams Gears – July 27, 2011
• Why We Search: Maryland Father Tries to Save Son in Abandoned House Fire – November 5, 2011
• Lesson in Awareness:
  Two Dead in Presumed Vacant CT House Fire – July 29, 2011