Fire Operations Flashcards
Additional signals that are received on the annunciator panel in the fire control room is a strong indicator of what?
Advancing fire
A report of nothing showing needs to be what?
Aggressively investigated
When a working fire in a high-rise building is confirmed command officers should also consider requesting what?
RIT 2
The operational plan for a high-rise fire consist of five basic points what are they?
Determine fire floor
Verify fire floor
Control occupants
Control of building systems
Confine and extinguish the fire
In what ways can you confirm or determine the fire floor on a high-rise fire?
Information on dispatch
Information from building occupants
Smoke or fire showing from the structure
Checking the annunciator panel or fire control room indicators
At a minimum what building systems must be brought under fire department control at a high-rise fire?
Elevators
Fire pump
HVAC
Exposure protection not only involves checking the floor above but also requires companies to be assigned to check where?
Check areas extremely remote from the fire floor
Engine companies should not open doors into the fire area until what information is relayed to them?
What the wind conditions are
When can personnel choose to stretch free connected winds from the engine on a high-rise fire?
When the fire is located on the first or second floor or below grade
Whenever the stretch will be made from the apparatus and not the standpipe what must happen?
It must be communicated to other units
What must happen even if the initial attack is made with Handlines stretch directly from the apparatus?
That the standpipe system is still supplied
The fire loading in residential occupancies in a high-rise building is considered what?
Low
Officers should give strong consideration of what an advanced fires and upper floors in a residential high-rise?
The use of a 2 1/2 inch line
The fire load and commercial occupancies in a high-rise is considered what?
Moderate
What will determine whether the standpipe connection is made on the fire floor or on the floor below the fire?
Conditions and locations of the fire
