Saturday, July 17, 2010 We were called to a house fire with smoke showing on a M/A assignment. The first set of crews entered the house finding fire shooting at them extiguished and advanced to bacement to clear the rest of the fire. A Second crew entered into the house and were sent upstairs to vent the celing and overhaul while Third team entered to take care of main floor. Well this is where it happened, a crew of 3 on hose line enters the center of the main floor room and a District Chief on nozzle and falls into hole in center of floor. The Mayday was called and Chief pulled out of floor and he and his crew backed out of house.

LESSONS LEARNED:Futher review showed the first 2 crews had meet the floor and went around the hole sounding the floor the whole time. The Third crew followed hose line, and in followed it to the center of room but were not sounding floor for they figured since the first 2 crews made it in and no advised given a hole in floor that they were good to go. LESSON LEARNED NO MATTER WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE HOW AND WHY ALWAYS SOUND THE FLOOR LIKE SOUNDING