14 Special Vent Ops Flashcards

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pg 410

Physical exertion of crews to reach the fire floor will mean:

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They may have less energy to perform firefighting functions

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pg 411
Truck crews should never enter high rise empty handed. If they aren’t carrying forced entry tools or vent equipment they should have

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Space Scba cylinders
Hose
Tools
Lights

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pg 411

Moving large amounts of tools is generally coordinated by those assigned to

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Lobby control

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pg 411

Low rise elevators

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serve the lower floors of the building

example: Floors 1-10

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pg 411

Mid rise elevators

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Only floors between low and high elevators ex, floor 1 and floor 10-20

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pg 411

High-rise elevators

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Serve only upper floors, ex.. Floor 1 and 20-30

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pg 411

Express elevators

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Ground floor to upper most floor. Ex. Floor 1 and 31 or whatever highest floor is

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pg 411

Freight elevators

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Serve some or all floors.

also designed to carry heavier loads than ordinary passenger elevators.

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pg 411

Freight elevators should only be used when authorized by the officer in charge on the fire floor.

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They can handle the additional weight of ff’s in full ppe along with extra tools and equipment, weighting more than a ton

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pg 412

Dangers of using elevators in a fire

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Malfunction or damage from heat could recall elevator car to the fire floor or strand the elevator between floors in the shaft.

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pg 412

Stack effect

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Natural vertical mvnt of air, or heat and smoke, in tall structures based on differences of air density inside and outside the buildings due to temp differences. Strong vertical column of mvnt.

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pg 412

With the stack effect, the greater difference between the inside and outside temp and the greater the building height,

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The greater the stack effect will be

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pg 412
If it is hotter inside than outside the air flow will be inward at the bottom and outward at the top. In a reverse stack effect the outside air is:

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Hotter.

airflow is down and out.

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pg 413

Mushrooming, aka ceiling jets

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Smoke rising until it hit barrier, then move horizontally until same. Then banks down and fills

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pg 413

When smoke reaches the same temp as ambient air in the high rise, it loses its buoyancy and

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Stratifies, forming layers of smoke in the building.

stratification can occur near the top floor and/or several floors down below.

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pg 414

Most ppv positioned at street level are only effective up to how many floors up

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22

more fans at the 22 floor or around there, or add smoke ejectors at the top most floor to be vented, or both

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Q

pg 414

Highrise vent options (3)

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Vertical or top ventilation
Horizontal fire floor
Horizontal above and below fire floor

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pg 415

If vertical vent may endanger fleeing occupants, what might have to be used

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Horizontal vent

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pg 415

Fire and smoke should be vented vertically through stairwells and other vertical shafts, taking advantage of

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The stack effect

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pg 415

Vertical venting in highrises can prevent

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Mushrooming on upper floors and does not promote lapping, which is always a danger when horizontally venting multistory buildings below the top floor.

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pg 415

One of the biggest challenges to vertical or top venting is

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Getting ff and equipment to the roof

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pg 415

If the roof is within reach of an aerial on a highrise, it is the preferred method for

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Moving manpower and equipment to the roof for venting

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pg 415

If an aerial does not reach the roof, how can it be used to gain access

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Reach the farthest floor it can, enter through a fire escape or window and use stair and elevators the rest of the way to the roof

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pg 415

Although highrises usually have more than one stairway, few have more than one that

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Terminates at the roof.

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pg 416 | During a fire, a stairwell can be relatively free of smoke but congested with
Occupants, attack lines and ff. therefore dedicating one stairway for evacuation and another for fire attack is critical.
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pg 416 | Elevators that service the fire floor or floors above should not be used unless
The officer in charge of the fire floor deems it safe to do so. contradicts pg. 411. moving equipment is deemed safe by IC.
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pg 417 If a bulkhead or penthouse is used to ventilate the stairwell that terminates at the roof, the door should be blocked open because
If it closes it could change the vent profile dangerously
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pg 417 | Ventilation in the stairwell that terminates at the top floor should be delayed until
All occupants have been evacuated or in an area of refuge. FFs should be clear of the vent stairwell prior to venting. once it is opened the stairwell can be come untenable.
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pg 418 If buoyancy is the only force acting on gasses within a closed compartment, then in relation to atmospheric pressure, the pressure will be what at the top
Higher at the top and lower at the bottom
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pg 418 | Neutral pressure plane
Point in a highrise where interior pressure equals atmospheric pressure outside, moves up or down depending on wind and temp. May be in middle of building
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pg 419 | The neutral plane in a building without gasses being vented or openings made is where
Between 35-50% of the building height.
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pg 419 In extreme distances between the neural plane, if openings are made at the top and bottom of a structure, the escape of high pressure at the top and inward pull of air at the bottom Causes
The entire building to act as a chimney, stack effect
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By dragging smoke out of a building with a smoke ejector, it causes negative pressure inside the compartment and
Forces the air out while dragging higher pressure air in from outside
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What can raise or lower the neutral pressure plane
Wind
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pg 421 | Opening a window below the neutral pressure plane may
Draw air inside the building rather than allow smoke out of it, spreading fire
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The closer ventilation takes place near the neutral plane,
The less effect, positive or negative, wind will have on it
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Venting below the fire is not common but may be needed when smoke has spread to lower floors because of
Reverse stack effect
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Venting floors below the fire can be facilitated by
Using ppv blowers or other fans
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Venting on the fire floor first requires a knowledge of building layout because
Venting a dead end corridor or into a shaft that doesn't exit can cause vent problems or extension
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Horizontal venting on the fire floor should be done only when there is no other choice because
It can be Time consuming because of window construction, and dangerous to people on the street below
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Vertical venting can be accomplished on intermediate highrise floors by
Venting smoke across the fire floor to the stairwell that reaches the roof. Maybe with assistance from fans.
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pg 424 | Smoke dampers
Control airflow in hvac units, usually activated by fire alarm signaling system
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pg 424 | The actual manipulation of hvac system for smoke control should be left to
The building engineer, who much be available to IC for consultation and for actual manipulation of the HVAC system under fd direction
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pg 424 | Guidelines for effectively using hvac system to control smoke mvnt
Operated only by building engineer Used to assist locating seat of fire Use to limit fire extension and smoke to smallest area possible Should not be allowed to spread fire or smoke beyond area of origin Provide fresh air to trapped occupants in refuge areas
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pg 424 | To accomplish manual shut down of smoke dampers with the least delay, building engineer should be contacted when
As soon as the fd arrives
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pg 427 | Curtain boards
Vertical boards, fire resistive half walls that extend down from roof to limit spread of fire and smoke
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pg 425 | Because automatic roof vents work on their own, it may reduce or eliminate the need for
Additional vertical venting under some conditions, previaling winds may prevent heat and smoke from exiting through automatic roof vents.
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pg 425 | Automatic roof vents may be activated by smoke detectors but otherwise, most still operate using
Spring loaded or counterweight cover assembly with fusible link activator
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pg 427 Sprinklers operating near roof vents may not allow heat to activate them, firefighters should not try to force open vents because it can damage them, but rather they should
Be familiar with manual controls
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pg 410 | Highrise fires present numerous challenges, including (8)
``` Limited access Large number of offices or apartments Heavy occupant loads Falling glass or debris Rapid smoke and fire spread through shafts Locked interior doors Low water pressure Climbing a lot of stairs ```
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pg 426 | Monitors are primarily intended to increase natural light in a building but may also provide
Natural ventilation
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pg 426 | Most monitors have wires glass or glass panels sloping down from their ridge as a roof and rely on what for ventilation
Rely on the glass breaking for vent note: monitors with solid walls may be hinged at the bottom and held closed at the top with a fusable link.
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pg 426 | Monitors with solid walls may have panels hinged at the bottoms with fusible links to
allow them to fall open by gravity in case of fire.
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427 | Curtain boards are intended to confine the fire to an area over its source, the walls generally extend how far
A distance of at least 20 percent the vertical distance from the floor to roof but no lower than 10 feet
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pg 427 | Curtain board may help accelerate the activation of
Sprinkler heads over the area of origin
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pg 428 | Usually but not always, cellars will have no windows and basements will have
Small windows between grade level and first floor
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pg 428 | Early ventilation of fire below grade is critically important to firefighting operations because
Pipe chases, shafts, chutes etc can contribute to fire spread on upper floors
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pg 428 To prevent or reduce the upward spread of smoke and fire from an involved basement or cellar, it must be vented as quickly as possible. If an opening of adequate size can be made opposite into interior point of entry into the space the fastest way to ventilate the compartment may be:
to set up a positive-pressure blower at the entry point.
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pg 428 | If no openings can be made in a cellar how do you vent
Cut a hole on the first floor near a window and position a smoke ejector to facilitate vent
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pg 429 | Windowless building require what type of vent
Fast vertical vent to prevent backdraft
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p.412 Warning +Elevators that serve the fire floor or above should not be used unless? -This includes freight elevators
The officer in charge on fire floor has deemed safe to do so
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p.412 +Elevators that do not serve the fire floor or above may be used to evacuate occupants and for shuttling FF's and equipment party way to the fire floor ONLY if it is equipped with?
Manual Fire Department Controls
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p.412 +The greater the difference between outside and inside temps and the greater the building height, the greater the___ will be.
Stack effect
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p.413 | +____ of smoke can create a highly toxic atmosphere many floors above the fire, even when there is little heat.
Stratification
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p.415 | +___ can prevent or reduce mushrooming on the upper floors and does not promote lapping.
Top Ventilation
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p.415 +When able to reach the roof of a high rise, using it is the preferred method of getting firefighters to the roof because it is the fastest, safest and most direct route and avoids the congestion of occupants and firefighters and their equipment entering the interior stairways.
Aerial Device
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p.419 +Assuming the structure is closed, with little or no gases being vented to the atmosphere, a neutral pressure plane exists at the level of ambient atmospheric pressure, which is usually between__ and__ percent of the building height.
35 and 50 percent
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p.421 | +The closer that ventilation takes place to the__ __ ___, the less positive or negative effects wind will exert.
Neutral pressure plane
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p.423 +When only cold smoke is left, vertically venting eliminates the need for breaking windows for horizontal vent, also opening floors up near the neutral pressure plane only minimally affects smoke removal unless __ ventilation is added.
Mechanical
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p.428 +Basements that have both interior stairwell access and access from the exterior of the building are called? (FULL ACCESS)
Daylight Basements
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p.429 Windowless Buildings +These walls may appear fragile but can be as resistant to being breached as masonry and are of little value to tactical ventilation.
Translucent glass walls