This also is one reason we try to train folks in MOUT as the tactics and weaponry perform much differently in closed quarters than in open areas. Inside a small room, well insulated and with furnishings, there is plenty of fuel for small fires. The CS grenade eats up the oxygen and concentrates the incapacitants.
While training in a CS chamber, it’s easy to get the impression you can hold your breath and walk through the gas threat. In real life, it incapacitates once inhaled in close quarters not to mention it’s difficult to put out secondary fires when they begin in the CS laden environment.
Best choice is to get out while still conscious and nor yet incapacitated.
“While training in a CS chamber, it’s easy to get the impression you can hold your breath and walk through the gas threat”
Geez, I never got that impression. We took off our masks, had to shout our names, do push ups, etc...essentially when the first guy looked green and blue, the group left the tent...and we had snotcicles down to our feet.
There’s been a little more information about the assult on the cabin. I saw a report that an APC rammed holes in it.
Now look at one thing you wrote: “The CS grenade eats up the oxygen”.
I wonder if LEO’s are deliberately punching holes in buildings (Waco comes to mind) as a tactic to make sure the grenades don’t starve themselves out...and as a result making buildings alot more likely to ignite.