Chapter 9 Structural Search, Victim Removal, Firefighter Survival Flashcards
Assessment of a facility or location made before an emergency occurs, in order to prepare for an appropriate emergency response.
Preincident Survey
Any facility in which a fire, accident, or natural disaster could cause substantial casualties or significant economic harm, through either property or infrastructure damage.
Target Hazard
What type of building is it important for firefighters to survey during initial construction, due to not having access after it has been completed?
Residential Buildings
Ongoing evaluation of the influential factors at the scene of an incident.
Size Up
List the three questions that must be answered when doing a size up.
What has happened? What is happening? What is going to happen?
All personal should ACTIVELY monitor conditions so that everyone stays informed. However the ultimate responsibility for an incident size up rest with who?
The officer in charge.
Escapes occupants should be questioned about what?
Who might still be in the building and their location. The location and extent of the fire.
If possible, fire attack and ventilation should be started simultaneously with what?
Any interior search.
Name the two objectives of a structural search.
Searching for life and Assessing fire conditions.
Primary search should occur in these four areas in this order.
Most severely threatened. (area closet to the fire on the fire floor and the floor above. Also the top floor in a multistory structure.). Largest numbers (area with the most possible victims). Remainder of Hazard Zone. (areas farthest away from the fire on the same level, upper floors, and floors below the fire). Exposure (interior and exterior).
Name three types of specialized search methods.
Oriented search, Wide area search, Thermal Imagers
To ensure a complete search always exit through the same what>
Door way you entered
On the fire floor a search should be started where>
As close to the fire as possible working back to the entrance door.
Egress should always be controlled during a search, list three ways to accomplish this.
Wedge doors open to prevent them from closing on you or on hose lines. Close doors adjacent to the passageway after they have been searched. Position hose teams at intervals along the path to coll accumulated gases.
What is the preferred method of moving if there is minimal smoke and heat?
Walking
Name three conditions that should be reported to the IC during a search.
If the fire has spread farther then was predicted. If trapped victims are found. If search has to be terminated.
Search method where a team leader is anchored at a door, wall, hose line while other team members spread through the room to complete the search.
Oriented Search
Search method typically using a 3/8” 200’ rope. Rope is tied to a fixed object outside the search area entrance. a minimum of three members enter the area to conduct the search.
Wide area search method
Each knot tied in the rope during a wide area search indicates what?
20’ in on the search line.
What is located after a metal ring in a wide area search.
A knot or series of knots. knots toward fire, rings toward exit.
Tethers that can be attached to the rings of a wide area search line are made of 1/4” by what length?
20’
What is located at the middle of a tether line?
A knot
Any time team members move off the wide area search line, they must stay in what with the navigator?
Voice contact
During a wide area search what are three things the navigator should report to the IC.
Fire Conditions. What has been found. How many knots into the building they have progressed.
List some disadvantages if TIC’s.
Can not detect people behind furniture or walls. Can not see through water or glass. Can not detect fire on floors with carpet. Fragile and prone to mechanical failure.
