200s High Rise

Question 1

What defines a High Rise?

Answer 1

1: 6 Elevator stops
2: Height 75 feet or greater

Question 2

What is included in a high rise building size up?

Answer 2

1: Exterior view (Fire may be hidden, consider falling debris
2: Interior view (personnel, evac, alarm, stairs and conditions in wells, Elevator recall)
3: What resources are responding

Question 3

What goes into a risk management assessment of a high rise?

Answer 3

1: Occupancy Comm vs residential, are people there)
2: Cause (arson?)
3: Building integrity
4: Location (what floor)

Question 4

What needs to be considered for rescue at a high rise?

Answer 4

1: Maintain evac and attack stairwells
2: Dont use elevators for rescue in smoke or fire
3: Declare stairwells to alarm
4: Diminish smoke
5: Identify roof access
6: Rescue most endangered first (shelter in place remove to other areas or outside)
7: Evac plan for rest of building

Question 5

What needs to be considered for fire attack in a high rise?

Answer 5

1: Assess smoke and fire
2: Water supply (building fire pump?)
3: Stop production of heat and smoke
4: Manage the spread of heat and smoke
5: Sprinklers Standpipes HVAC
6: MFMD equipment needed (fans etc)
7: Property conservation

Question 6

Other than taking command what are the responsibilities of the first engine co at a high rise?

Answer 6

1: Spot as close as possible for interior access
2: Gain access to lobby and fire control room/panel
3: Establish building system sector with 1 FF
4: Lobby level size up

Question 7

What are the responsibilities of the first ladder at a high rise?

Answer 7

1: Spot aerial for rescue and defensive ops
2: Proceed to lobby
3: Meet with first Engine in fire control and assess elevators

Question 8

What are the responsibilities of the second Engine on a high rise?

Answer 8

1: Establish water connection
2: Engineer remain with pumper
3: Captain to fire control room with other captains

Question 9

What do the additional responding companies do at a high rise after the initial response?

Answer 9

1: All 1st and 2nd alarm companies go straight to Lobby Sector
2: Lobby operates on staging radio channel
3: Lobby staging and command coordinate companies for accountability until they are assigned

Question 10

What are the priorities for building systems personnel?

Answer 10

1: Distribute keys phones and maps (may be turned over to lobby)
2: Communicate to attack teams info about where fire is
3: Access and operate fire pump, vent systems, generator, elevators
4: Coordinate ventilation with fire attack

Question 11

What are priorities for the fire floor?

Answer 11

1: Manage work cycles
2: Create on deck in clean environment
3: Communicate with other sectors for support if attack
4: All operations must be tied to area of safe refuge

Question 12

What are priorities for stairwell teams?

Answer 12

1: Fire attack stairwell vs evac
2: Manage stairwells and those traveling through them
3: They are not involved with fire attack
4: Give a stairwell CAN report
5: Is the roof a viable exit?

Question 13

What are the priorities for ventilation in high rise?

Answer 13

1: Manage built in systems and assess effectiveness
2: Manage MFD vent equipment
3: Communicate on vent effectiveness with fire attack

Question 14

What are priorities for lobby?

Answer 14

1: Work with staging
2: Accountability
3: Create a staging area
4: Manage elevator access
5: Assist with safe egress of evacuees
6: Work with PD to prevent re entry

Question 15

What are priorities for resource?

Answer 15

1: Establish a equipment pool well below on deck floor
2: Utility truck to support a built in air standpipe
3: Air cart to on deck

Question 16

What are priorities for treatment and transport?

Answer 16

1: May be remote location away from building and operations
2: Triage
3: Large resource need

Question 17

What are two of the first branches that may need to be established?

Answer 17

1: Fire
2: Medical

Question 18

What are the priorities for the PD liaison?

Answer 18

1: Coordinate with PD resources
2: Contact TLO
3: Have PD assist in lobby

Question 19

How do we prep elevators for fire conditions?

Answer 19

1: Open the hatch
2: Ensure proper tools present

Question 20

What type of hose line should be deployed?

Answer 20

1: Offensive Small diameter hand lines with a 2.5 back up
2: Defensive Large diameter and master stream to prevent floor to floor extension

Question 21

What needs to be considered about air management?

Answer 21

1: 1 spare bottle per person initially
2: Captains should check air supply every 5 floors
3: Identify clean safe refuge areas
4: Consider monitoring for invisible gasses (co2)
5: Beware of stack affect or auto locking doors trapping smoke and FFs

Question 22

What if the fire is in the lobby?

Answer 22

1: Cuts off natural escape routes
2: Inhibits use of fire control room
3: Fire attack may need to come straight off the Engine

Question 23

Where are the most difficult areas to communicate with in a high rise operation?

Answer 23

1: Fire control room
2: Elevators
3: Mobile radios from control room to fire floor

Question 24

What are other special considerations for high rise ops?

Answer 24

1: Hazmat
2: TRT
3: Air ops (recon, victim removal, deliver FFs equipment to roof)