Our friends over at firevideo.net recently posted this excellent video of the Vent Enter Search (VES) tactic. When utilizing the VES tactic a very important decision always has to be made, you have to ask yourself â€œis it worth itâ€¦ is that a survivable room?â€ This question applies for the unprotected victims we are trying to rescue and to the firefighterâ€™s performing the search.

The outside team (or who ever is going to perform VES) needs to perform a VES size-up. When sizing up the building to determine what windows you are going to VES you need to evaluate where the fire has been, where the fire is now, and were the fire is going next. This VES size-up allows you to determine the priority of windows to VES. Another thing this VES size-up will do is allow you to determine what rooms (if any) are not worth entering at this time. Sometimes difficult decisions have to be made.

When performed correctly, VES is an extremely effective tactic to remove trapped victims.

[flv]http://www.vententersearch.com/videos/flv/vesbailout.flv[/flv]

**** Please be sure to read the comment below from Rick Van Sant made on November 22nd. He is the guy in the video, and his first hand description of the event should be read prior to making any comments ****