In honor of the 23rd anniversary of the Cherry Road fire and the loss of two DCFD firefighters, please watch the following video. Many firefighters have been injured or have died while trying to extinguish a basement fire or a fire on a level below them. Below-grade fires can present different challenges based on the potential ventilation or the building construction. During the past few years, field experience was collected and reviewed, and fire experiments were conducted as part of a collabor