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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Geovannie Rios-Santos and Air Force Airman Nathan Lott, 312th Training Squadron fire protection students, successfully cut out a 4x4 foot section of an artificial roof during their vertical ventilation training at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. With the exhaust port created, firefighters have increased visibility and safety when entering the building at the ground level. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air Force Airman Nathan Lott, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, cuts a 4x4 foot exhaust port in an artificial rooftop during his vertical ventilation training exercise at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 110, 2020. Lott’s cut position was decided by multiple factors, but the most important was wind direction and location of the simulated fire. The cutting pattern was started furthest from the egress point and worked back towards the ladder to prevent the firefighters from cutting off their escape path should new hazards arise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Geovannie Rios-Santos and Air Force Airman Nathan Lott, 312th Training Squadron fire protection students, combine joint service skills while carving out a hole on a combustible roof during their vertical ventilation training at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. Lott’s first cut into the roof was on the furthest downwind side of the opening from the ladder to prevent hot and toxic gases from blowing into Rios-Santos and himself. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air National Guard Airman Toryon Clyburn, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, arrives at the egress point in order to join his partner on the artificial rooftop in an emergency operations training exercise, at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. Clyburn followed a strict rule of “two in, two out,” which required the buddy system in the fire service whenever operating in an “Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health” atmosphere, such as vertical ventilation training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Eugene Dotson, 312th Training Squadron fire protection instructor, coaches Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Geovannie Rios-Santos, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, on weight distribution and proper ways to quickly remove the combustible roof during a vertical ventilation training exercise at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. Vertical ventilation was an offensive strategy that students utilized to create a 4x4 foot exhaust port in order to remove hot and toxic air from inside the burning building. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Eugene Dotson, 312th Training Squadron fire protection instructor, helps adjust the axe of Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Geovannie Rios-Santos, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, while Rios-Santos transitions from the ladder to the rooftop for his vertical ventilation training exercise at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. At the 312th TRS, Rios-Santos’ and every member’s education was key to developing the next generation of professionals who will ensure worldwide dominance. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Eugene Dotson, 312th Training Squadron fire protection instructor, ensures the students use proper ladder climbing techniques when preforming emergency operations training during the vertical ventilation exercise at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. In a 1-to-6 instructor to student ratio, Dotson helped train, develop, and inspire warriors for the Fire Emergency Services of the DOD and international partners. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Marine Corps PVT. David Faldet, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, pulls a rope taught, during a vertical ventilation partner training exercise at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 12, 2020. Faldet’s rope leveraged a chain saw and additional fire and rescue supplies to the artificial rooftop during the joint forces training simulation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Trevor Gilmore, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, transitions from ladder to roof carrying a fire hook for his vertical ventilation practice during a training exercise at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. Gilmore will use the fire hook in the offensive strategy of vertical ventilation, which creates an exhaust port for the harmful gasses to exist the structure. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Geovannie Rios-Santos, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, ascends a ladder to an artificial rooftop during a vertical ventilation training exercise located at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. Rios-Santos was one of the 12 students in the joint environment to be trained with hands-on advantages. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Zachary Laurence, 312th Training Squadron fire protection student, secures a ladder for his classmate to climb during a vertical ventilation training simulation at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. The vertical ventilation block was a 20-training-day section to a 68-training-day course that focused on fundamental fire fighter skills and partner safety. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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DOD fire academy trains vertical ventilation

Joint services collaborate in vertical ventilation training simulations at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 10, 2020. The DOD fire academy provided training to uniformed and civilian members of the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and other organizations while building partnership capacities with allied nations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

U.S. Air Force members of Goodfellow Air Force Base wait in the second floor of the launch control center for their turn to see the silo inside the underground portion of the Lawn Atlas Missile Base in Lawn, Texas, Dec 3, 2020. In 2008, LAMB was a recorded Texas Historic Landmark. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

The above ground view of the launch control center’s access point at Lawn Atlas Missile Base’s missile silo in Lawn, Texas, Dec. 3, 2020. The entryway provided access, while support personnel and equipment were housed in two quonset huts for Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile F series during the Cold War in 1962. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

U.S. Air Force Maj. Joseph Newman, 17th Logistics Readiness Squadron commander, feels his way from the second level launch control center to the access tunnel to observe the 185-foot deep silo inside of Lawn Atlas Missile Base in Lawn, Texas, Dec. 3, 2020. The silo was filled with immense amounts of groundwater and rainwater, which flooded the silo over the years after its decommissioning. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

U.S. Air Force members of Goodfellow Air Force Base learn the significance of Lawn Atlas Missile Base’s thick blast doors inside the tunnel on the way to the missile silo in Lawn, Texas, Dec 3, 2020. The underground tunnel connected the main missile silo to a launch control center, which was operated by a five-man crew during the Cold War in 1962. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

U.S. Air Force Col. James Finlayson, 17th Training Wing vice commander, observes the Lawn Atlas Missile Base’s silo, in Lawn, Texas, Dec 3, 2020. The LAMB site was one of twelve built near Dyess Air Force Base, Texas and Finlayson saw how the 185-foot deep silo was lined with walls of concrete, epoxy-based resin and steel rebar, built to withstand a nuclear blast, and was filled with spring water. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Reives)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Toby Hiseley, 315th Training Squadron chief enlisted manager, and Lt Col. John Bergmans, 315th Training Squadron commander, descend into the Lawn Atlas Missile Base’s missile tunnel to view the silo during an Air Force heritage and values tour of the LAMB site in Lawn, Texas, Dec. 3, 2020. When the Atlas program ended in 1965, the missiles were removed and all 12 sites were demilitarized. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

U.S. Air Force Lt Col. John Bergmans, 315th Training Squadron commander, enters the Lawn Atlas Missile Base’s missile silo while exploring the narratives of actual personnel deployed to the site during the Cuban Missile Crisis in Lawn, Texas, Dec. 3, 2020. Bergmans attended the Staff Ride to LAMB in support of the 17th Training Wing Heritage Campaign Plan that was founded on Air Force heritage and the Airmen Warrior Ethos among attending personnel.. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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Goodfellow Experiences Cold War History at Lawn Atlas Missile Base

The staircase allows for descending inside the Lawn Atlas Missile Base’s missile silo in Lawn, Texas, Dec. 3, 2020. Built during the Cold War in 1962, the silo housed Atlas, a one-and-a-half stage, liquid-fueled rocket, capable of launching low-orbit payloads. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)
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