1. Tahoe Tyrol Training Structure Defense Wildland Drill 6-30-16
South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue

2. Tahoe Tyrol Training
A structure protection and structure triage drill under simulated fire conditions
Consisted of 7 other fire organizations from around the lake.
To train and prepare for a multi agency wildland urban interface event.

3. What is structure protection?
Where crews are going ahead of or actually in the fire front protecting and or prepping the structures that are going to be impacted by fire.
Often times resources are extremely limited and engines are going from house to house deploying and re deploying hose lines

4. Training overview
Start of Fire

5. Training Overview
Start of Fire

6. Training Overview
South Lake Fire Rescue and Lake Valley Fire units were dispatched to a well established vegetation fire at the bottom of Keller Rd

7. Training Overview
First in units arrived to find a well established fire at the bottom of the Tahoe Tyrol community with structures immediately threatened.
Additional resources are then ordered. (Neighboring agencies)

8. Training Overview
Simulated fire became well established in the community and threw embers onto a house with a shake roof

9. Training Overview Wood shake roof on fire
Embers from the house and roof are causing spot fires.

10. Training Overview Resources were then assigned structures to defend
Each driveway was marked with a cone with a summary of the issue present at the structure

11. Deployment and redeployment of hoselines

12. Training Overview
We did not ask the residents to do anything different the day of the training. Such as taking cars off the street or putting away of large items
We wanted to the training to be as realistic as possible
We worked through the narrow street with parked cars

13. Defensible space suggestions

14. Defensible Space
This is an example of ground fuels in contact to a dead tree next to a wooden deck which is attached to the one of the homes

15. Wood Shake Roofs

16. Pine Needles

17. Conclusion Thank you to the Tahoe Tyrol Commuinity
This drill reinforced the need for fire agencies to work together as well as allowed us the opportunity to train together.
It also reinforces the need for defensible space