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    The Firehouse.com Ventilation product category is a collection of information, product listings and resources for researching various fire service and firefighting ventilation equipment and tools, including ventilation saws, gas and electric powered smoke ejectors and removal fans and fireground ventilation options.
    Super Vac
    Erv Weinmeister Super Vacuum Manufacturing
    Apparatus

    Erv Weinmeister, Founder of Super Vac, Passes Away

    Super Vacuum Mfg Company
    Jan. 3, 2025
    Erv Weinmeister, who founded Super Vacuum Manufacturing in 1954 to create ventilation equipment for firefighters, was also a fire chief in Loveland, CO.
    Images by Richard Miranda
    Ventilation

    Understanding Unidirectional Flow in Below-Grade Fires

    Andrew Serra
    April 21, 2024
    Andrew Serra stresses that coordination between interior and exterior personnel is vital, and ventilation must be coordinated, to increase safety and chances of success.
    Super Vac
    Ventilation

    Super Vac to Unveil Battery-Powered Smoke Ejector at FDIC

    Firehouse.com News
    April 9, 2024
    The battery-powered Smoke Ejector will be on display at Booth 3417 in Indianapolis.
    Photos by Jonathan Hall
    Knee walls range from 3 feet tall to chest height and often are found in the finished half-stories of dwellings. Half-stories might include a collar tie, which spans the rafters on opposing sides of the structure.
    Operations & Training

    Engine Essentials: Extinguishing Knee Wall Fires

    Jonathan Hall
    Nov. 10, 2023
    Jonathan Hall says the fire behavior and hazards of a residential fire that involves knee walls require particular approaches to size-up and fire attack to minimize risk to firefighters...
    Photo courtesy of Chief Edward Mullen, Perth Amboy, NJ, Fire Department
    Lateral and vertical spread are concerns in these types of occupancies. Note the tin ceiling that’s installed above the drop-tile ceiling in this store.
    Operations & Training

    Fire Studies: Rules of Engagement for Strip Mall & Taxpayer Fires

    Michael Daley
    Oct. 16, 2023
    Michael Daley explains the particularly ways by which fires in these occupancies can injure and kill firefighters who work inside of them.
    Photo by Scott Carnahan
    In the process of carrying out a Milwaukee cut, a firefighter on each of two roof ladders starts by cutting an approximately four-foot vertical seam that runs parallel to each ladder beam that’s closest to the hole location.
    Ventilation

    Truck Tactics: Ventilation Techniques for Steep Roofs

    Zachary Brown
    Sept. 11, 2023
    Zachary Brown instructs on how to vertically ventilate a steeply pitched roof from an aerial, from one roof ladder and from two roof ladders.