By Dean Guccione - December 19, 2018

I wanted to pass along some info that I read in Fire Engineering magazine this past week, that talks about transitional fire attack. The story was written by Chief P.J. Norwood and Captain Nick J. Salameh, who are Fire Engineering Magazine contributors.

This is more of a summary of portions of the article, but it’s valuable information for you to know, not only as a firefighter, but especially as a potential Company Officer.

And, if you’re department hasn’t begun to train on, or implement some form of Transitional Fire Attack, it is certainly something for your department to consider. 

Also, you will have more influence enacting changes in tactical operations of this magnitude, once you become a Company Officer.

When I began my career with the Beverly Hills Fire Department, we only had two ways that we approached a structure fire; offensive with interior fire attack until the fire was extinguished or we were...