427 Flashcards
Fire Watch
Open burning must be attended to and controlled at all times.
Adequate fire extinguishing equipment must be readily available at all times.
Open Burning Permits
______ and _____ Services Department, Air and Water ___ ____ issue open burning permits each day. Each permit is for one location only and cannot be transferred to another site.
Open burning permits are for ___ ___ only. No land clearing fires shall be allowed without a permit.
Permitted Land Clearing
Permitted burning that clearly causes an air pollution problem for surrounding residences and/or businesses shall be extinguished.
Burning is permitted from ____ until 1 hour ___ to sunset.
Open burning must be at least ___ feet away from any public highway or road;
and with wind carrying smoke away from any ____ thoroughfare.
Regulatory Environmental Quality . Division LAND CLEARING 0900 PRIOR 100 TRAFFIC
Land clearing debris can only be transported off-site when it is to be burned using an ___ ___ ___ and with a special permit from the Regulatory and Environmental Services Department, Air and Water Quality Division.
Residential land clearing is an operation that is conducted by the homeowner (or individual contracted by the homeowner) of an existing residential dwelling of not more than ___ ___ units for the purpose of initially clearing ___.
For residential land clearing, any fire must be at least ___ feet away from any occupied building.
For commercial land clearing, any fire must be at least ____ feet away from any occupied building if not using an Air Curtain Incinerator and at least ____ feet away if using one.
Burning Not Requiring Permits
The following types of open burning do not require a permit:
Campfires
Recreational Fires
Fires used solely for religious or ceremonial purposes
Fires used for noncommercial, outdoor preparation of food
Fires used for warming outdoor workers during inclement weather
Fires used for the training of organized fire departments or industrial
employees
A Recreational Fire is defined as “The noncommercial burning of materials other than rubbish for pleasure, religious, ceremonial, cooking, or similar purposes in which the fuel burned is not contained in an incinerator, a barbecue pit, and the total fuel area is not exceeding ___ feet in ____ and ___feet in ___.
AIR CURTAIN INCINERATOR TWO FAMILY VEGETATION 300 1000 300 3 DIAMETER 2 HEIGHT
RESPONSE GUIDELINES
A determination shall be made as to life or property danger.
Investigate the existence of a valid burning permit by requesting that ___ confirm the permit number. If the permit is valid, and all conditions of section 427.01.04 of this SOG have been met, no action is necessary.
FRCC
The fire will be extinguished immediately if:
There is no valid permit
Conditions of 427.01.04 have been violated
The size of the fire creates ___ ___ of smoke
In cases where the responding suppression company encounters resistance to extinguishment, they will remove themselves from the property and request a law enforcement response through FRCC. After law enforcement advises JFRD it is safe, the fire will be completely extinguished before the responding company leaves the scene. At no time will JFRD personnel argue or get into heated conversation with violators.
EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS
CITATIONS
It is the intent of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department to educate the public when violations of Ordinance Code 360.701 are discovered during responses to open burning complaints. The initial arriving company officer should attempt to educate the violator and issue a ___ ___.
If JFRD has made multiple responses to the same address for open burning violations, or if resistance to extinguishment is encountered, the ___ will request ___ to notify Regulatory and Environmental Services Department, Air and Water Quality Division for possible ___ of a ___. Once the fire has been extinguished, the responding company may return to service prior to the arrival of the Regulatory and Environmental Services Department, Air and Water Quality Division.
After normal work hours or on weekends and holidays, ____ shall request a ___/___ ___ to respond and issue a citation, if warranted. Law enforcement will be requested by FRCC anytime a chief is dispatched, although law enforcement may be cancelled at the discretion of the responding ___ ___. Responding companies shall remain on scene until released by the responding District/Battalion Chief.
Citations may be issued for active burning that does not comply with 427.01.05 including:
Open burning of tires, rubber material, bunker C residual oil, asphalt, roofing material, tar, railroad crossties, other creosoted lumber, plastics, garbage, trash, yard trash, household paper products and waste pesticide containers.
VERBAL WARNING OIC FRCC ISSUANCE CITATION FRCC DITRICT/BATALLION CHIEF CHIEF OFFICER
Open burning within ___ feet of an active runway at a State Department of Transportation approved public airport.
Open burning of land-clearing debris within ___ feet of any public highway or road, or prevailing winds direct smoke toward ___ ___ or road.
Open burning of land-clearing debris prior to ____. or ___ one hour before sunset.
Open burning of land-clearing debris without ___ present.
Open burning of land-clearing debris causing excessive ___ ___ equal to or ___ than ___ percent opacity.
Open burning conducted without a permit.
Each day, during any part of which an offense occurs, shall constitute a ___ offense.
1000 100 PUBLIC HIGHWAY 9:00AM AFTER ATTENDENT VISBLE EMISSIONS GREATER 40 SEPERATE
CITATION BOOKS
______ ____ of _____ will issue all citation books and will keep a record of the Suppression District/Battalion Chief designation to which it was issued. Each citation in the book is individually numbered and each citation must be accounted for. Every citation, whether written, damaged, or voided must be turned into the Division Chief of Fire Prevention. Do not discard any numbered citation.
DIVISION CHIEF PREVENTION
