AUC 207 and Addendums Flashcards
Fire Department personnel will NEVER be permitted to operate on track areas unless…
Assured power is off. Positive assurance shall be verified thru the FD dispatcher.
The rule to NEVER operate on a track unless power is removed may be ignored only if?
Life is in imminent peril and direct and immediate action is required to save life.
The first consideration on arrival at an operation involving electrified track will be?
Determination of whether the power is to remain on or turned off
When power removal is required it shall be accomplished via?
Apparatus radio through our own dispatcher
Auxiliary contact can be made with the desk superintendent via?
TA Police officer, other employee with a TA radio, a telephone at the token booth, and at areas designated by the blue light
When power is removed these systems WILL NOT be affected
RED HEAD SALLY SPREADS VD
Lights in the right of way,station lights,signals,drainage pump equip, tunnel ventilation equipment and train headlights.
The possibility of a coasting train must ALWAYS be expected..True or False?
TRUE
When conditions do not require power removal, recon can be performed by the officer and one member operating as a team from?
Platforms and catwalks
Emergency exits might prove the most direct means of access to the fire area. What has priority use of the stair? Evacuating passengers or Stretching a line to extinguish the fire?
Evacuating Passengers will ALWAYS be given priority use of this means
A engine and truck can set up a Handi Talkie Relay with how many members?
2-6
Whats the acronym for the handi talkie relay?
CORE T
What is the positions of the relay members?
Chauffeur 50 yards from stairs to street
OVM 50 Yards of the Chauffeur
Roof 50 yards from the stair on the platform
Engine officer 100 yards from the roofman (LOS)
Truck officer to fire
Add’l members every 100 yds if necessary
Any member not needed in the relay shall proceed to the location of the incident. This is determined by?
Truck officer.
There are occasions when the fire will be under the platform. If this is the case, members will not be permitted in track areas unless?
Power is removed, confirmation of same by dispatcher, members are posted at both ends of the platform, an alternate area of refuge is assured.
If a train is to be evacuated people should be evacuated to a station through a train, if the train is unable to proceed to the station consider transferring passengers to another train. As a last resort how would you evacuate the passengers?
Walk passengers out of the tunnel via the roadbed or benchwall.
Whenever possible, small fires in elevated tracks shall be extinguished?
Via hand lines from the street below
Aerial ladders and tower ladders shall NEVER be extended beyond the railing where they could be exposed over the track area to a moving train. TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
What will you find near the blue light
Power removal box, telephone, and extinguisher
If you encounter an out of service power removal box how do you remove power from the tracks?
Use the associated telephone to contact rail control center and request power off.
If the truck officer did not obtain the token booth phone number on his way to the location of the incident how can he communicate with particular to the chief?
Use the blue light phone to call the desk superintendent. The desk superintendent will relay the blue light number to the chief. The chief can call from his cell phone or use the preferred method, token booth phone.
The truck officer should obtain what info from the token booth clerk before proceeding to the location of the emergency or fire
Token booth phone number
The controls to open a door in emergency mode are located?
On the bulkhead near the doors. Older subway cars they are under the seat closest to the door. Pull the handle up.
200’ 400’ 600’ 800’ what do these numbers represent in subway operations?
Gate valves are 200 ‘ apart
Signs on the Manhattan Bridge are 400’ apart
Power removal boxes are 600’ apart
Power removal boxes on the air train guideway are 800’ apart
Emergency exits are opened with the emergency exit key there are 3 different shapes. Some have other than normal shapes what tools will be required to open these exits?
Pair of vise grips or pliers
All electrical components under the car shall be considered an extension of the third rail. TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
The information that should be provided at all subway staions is defined by the acronym REST MAP what does is represent?
Location of: Rooms Emergency exits Stairways Token booths Map of station
Subway stations showing a green globe indicates that the entrance is open 24 hrs per day However there may or may not be a token booth clerk. What would you expect to find at this location if no clerk was present?
A HEET
High Entrance EXIT Turnstile or gate
opens with 1620 key
All issues with missing or defective equipment or non compliance with subway SOP’s by MTA, AMTRACK, etc are reported to whom?
PTSU
The metro card is missing from the rig what do you do?
Phone PTSU
Lost property report
Police report
FDNY can use the trains destination as a point of reference when giving the trains direction of travel, a train going over the Manhattan Bridge traveling into Brooklyn can be referred to in 2 ways. They are?
Brooklyn bound or South Bound
Transit Authority pad locks have special keys which cannot be duplicated. Where can they be obtained if needed?
Token booth clerk, FDNY will not be given these keys
The decision to use a light train may only be made by?
Chief in Charge
The primary means of communication between a light train and the CIC is?
The train operators radio
Who else has a radio similar to the train operators radio
Train conductor has a hand held radio
