I had a follower pose a few questions for The Rescue Boss world. Follower Jeremy Mader asked the question "How many departments have SOP's about deploying a charged hand line during extrications and who has actually had a car catch on fire due to popping a door?" This is an interesting question that I hope will generate a conversation. My organization has a policy in place and it is expected that there will be a charged hose line in place when we have a working extrication. Even though a hose line is deployed I have seen a few with this practice. The first issue that I normally see is no one mans the hose. Most of the time in limited man power situations the crew is working on extricating the patient and there isn't anyone left to man the hose line. I'm sure someone is saying then you need more people responding. I agree and by the time the others crews get to the scene either they get involved in the extrication or they arrive on scene when the extrication is over. The other issue that I see people do is they stretch the line out and then they don't charge it. At that point I'm not sure why we are even stretching a line. If you are stretching a hose line for the worst case scenario then we need to be ready and put water to it. The second part to Jeremy's question is has anyone actually had a car catch fire during an extrication. I have never had this happen to me and I have never heard of it happening. I am not saying that it has never happened it just hasn't happened to me. So weigh in and give me situations that have happened to you. 
