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High Rise Plans MP202.11 Flashcards

1
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A high-rise building is defined as ?

A
  • 6 elevator stops or greater

- or 75 feet in height or greater.

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High-rise Building Size-up:

Exterior View ?

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  • Often hide fire and smoke due to building being well sealed and large internal capacity
  • Estimate potential for falling debris and/or major structural collapse
  • Guide responding companies around these hazards
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High-rise Building Size-up:

Interior View ?

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-RP/Building personnel information/accounts
-Is building being evacuated?
-Alarm indications
-Stairwell assessment
•Number of stairwells?
•Conditions within?
How are they labeled?
-Have the elevators been recalled?
-What resources are responding?
•Additional alarms needed based on observations?

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•Risk Management Assessment for high rise buildings

What 7 Questions do you ask your self

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  • Is the building occupied?
    - Commercial or Residential?
  • What caused this incident?
    - Accidental fire
    - Intentional
    - Unknown
  • How has the incident affected the buildings integrity?
    - Is the building going to allow fire and/or rescue operations
    - Will inaction cause the building to collapse into other buildings?
  • Fire location?
    - What floor?
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Tactical Objective high rise:

Rescue?

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Rescue:
-Secure/maintain viable evacuation and fire attack stairwell
-Each must be declared to CMD or AHQ prior to making way to the fire floor
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Tactical Objective high rise:

Fire Attack?

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Fire Attack:
-Assess fire/smoke conditions
-Provide water supply via standpipe
-Stop production smoke/heat
-Manage the spread of heat/smoke thru building:
-use building systems:
sprinklers, standpipes, fire pumps, HVAC
-PFD equip: vent truck,
portable fans carried on trucks
natural ventilation
Property Conservation:
*high value occupancies,
*involve more than 1 floor

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Deployment for high rise:
-1st arriving Eng or Ladder establishment of what?
Think simple

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1st arriving Engine or Ladder company should assume command

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Deployment for high rise:

-1st Engine?

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1st Engine:

  • spot close to interior access as possible Proceed to build lobby/gain access to Fire Control Room or Building alarm panel
  • Establish Building systems Sector w/ 1 member from engine
  • Initiate Lobby size-up
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Deployment for high rise:

-2nd Engine?

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2nd Engine:

  • Should establish water connection to building standpipe system
  • Engineer stay with pumper
  • Capt to Fire Control Room/alarm panel and meet w/ 1st Eng capt and ladder Capts.
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Deployment for high rise:

-1st Ladder?

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1st Ladder:

  • Spot in position to use ladder for rescue/defensive firefight
  • Proceed to lobby
  • Capt to fire control room/alarm panel meet up with 1st Eng company capt
  • Crew should begin elevator assessment for possible use
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High rise fire
All additional operational resources:
- After declaration of a working fire, all 1st And 2nd alarm companies should proceed Where? and Why?

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  • to the building and report to lobby sector.

- Decreases transit time

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-High rise Lobby sector will be operating on _______ radio channel.

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Staging

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High rise Sectorization:
Building systems responsibility’s ?
(5 things)

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  • Distribute keys, phones, and floor maps (may be turned over to Lobby Sector)
  • Manage all building systems including personnel to access all remote building systems
  • fire pump
  • Ventilation and pressurization systems -Emergency Generators
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High rise Sectorization:

Fire floor responsibility’s ?

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  • Manage work cycles on floor and in stairwells

- Create on-deck staging area for companies in a clean environment

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High rise Sectorization:

Stairwell teams responsibility’s ?

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  • Fire Attack Stairwell team/Evacuation Stairwell team
  • Dedicated crews to directly manage stairwells and occupants moving in them
  • Not involved with the fire attack
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High rise Sectorization:

Ventilation responsibility’s ?

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-Manage built in ventilation and pressurization system (assess the effectiveness of systems)

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High rise Sectorization:

Lobby responsibility’s ?

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  • Work w/ staging sector on staging radio channel
  • All comapanies on 1st 2 alarms should proceed directly to Lobby Sector
  • Crew Acct tracked based on assignment (ultimately tracked by CMD)
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High rise Sectorization:

Resource responsibility’s ?

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  • Establish equipment pool

- Needs to be well below the on-deck floor (decrease chances of contamination)

19
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High rise Sectorization:

Treatment/Transportation responsibility’s ?

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  • May be remote from building
  • Triage is key
  • Large volume of resources may be needed
20
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High rise Fire Attack:

  • Crew Accountability
  • Stairwell teams responsibility are ?
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  • Stairwell teams: Immediate deployment to stairwell
  • Provide CAN report from stairwell -Assist in establishing operational/tactical priorities -Access roof to establish viable exit if necessary
  • Rescue immediately endangered
  • Not involved in fire attack
21
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High rise Fire Attack:

Hose line deployment for High rise fire attack?

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Small diameter hand lines
	- Fire Attack (offensive type activity)
	- Back up line with 2.5"
Larger diameter hand lines or master streams
	-Prevent fire extension floor to floor
          (defensive type activity)
22
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High rise Fire Attack:

Use of elevators for High rise fire attack?

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-Determine if conditions exist that prohibit elevator use
-Determine when elevators can be used safely
-Elevators must be prepped for use under fire conditions
•Roof hatch opened
•Appropriate tools present including telescoping ladder

23
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An evacuation stairwell is What?

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A stairwell dedicated to the removal of occupants from building

24
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A fire attack stairwell is what?

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A stairwell dedicated to the fire attack operation, ideally w/ roof access w/ no evacuation traffic to impede the FA operations

25
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Rescue Profile for high rise in order of priority who do we help first?
( 6 )

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  • Most severely threatened
  • Largest number
  • Escape routes or methods of removal
  • Protect in place
  • Use of PD in Lobby sector
  • Each building is directed by fire code to have an evacuation plan including a meeting place outside, away from the building

KC V 2 (87 decks)

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