Batch mobilising Flashcards
Special Services received by running calls to stations, from members of the public are …
Special Services received by running calls to stations, from members of the public are not to be attended without permission from the mobilising control unless an attendance would prevent some human injury or physical suffering.
Priority is given too what incidents and control must be informed of….
Priority attendance will be given to special service calls where incidents involve a risk of fire, explosion or injury and to calls received from hospitals, care homes, public utility services and food storage depots.
Calls received at stations from such premises are to be passed immediately to Control. All incidents of a lesser priority will be subject
Trees across roads
Where it is clear that the crew are unable to move the fallen trees due to their size, the attendance of the appropriate London Borough Emergency Team should be requested through Control. Crews should assist only where necessary
- 1 Assistance messages
(a) Flooding
An officer, who finds that they are in attendance at an incident with exceptionally large quantity of water to be pumped out of a building, may ask for assistance e.g. two additional pumping appliances required. This message is to be followed as soon as possible by an informative message, giving the approximate area and depth of water to be pumped out. Messages requesting special equipment or pumps are to be sent only when essential, in accordance with Policy number 518 - Messages from incidents. If the callsign has been mobilised to a batch group and is unable to attend the rest of the incidents in the group; the Officer in Charge should notify Control as soon as possible. Details of each of the outstanding incidents, including incident numbers should be included in any such message.
Informative messages
Such messages are only to be sent if assistance has been requested or if the incident is likely to be protracted, or if a risk to life is involved. The message is to be as brief as possible e.g. flooded premises, pumping in progress. If an appliance is delayed and still has a number of incidents to attend details of the remaining calls are to be passed to Control so that another appliance can be ordered.
Stop message
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When an appliance is ordered to attend a number of incidents in batch, stop messages are still required for each individual call. In order to move to the next incident within the batch, appliances are required to send a coded stopstop on their MDT of Status 9 (nine) flood call attended and book status 2 to the next incident within their batch
Liaison with other public services/utilities
8.1 Since control will be experiencing extremely high call rates during Batch Mobilising Procedure,
messages requesting other public services/utilities to be informed of incidents should not be sent to Control (e.g. gas apparatus involved, supply shut down, inform appropriate authority). In these circumstances the incident commander is to liaise with the occupier.
8.2 If the occupier is not in attendance and a supply is shut down the incident commander is to attach
a tag (see Policy number 106 - Public utility shutdown - notification to occupier) to the relevant main supply valve/switch. This will inform the occupier not to reinstate the supply until it has been checked by a competent person.
8.3 Information that the supply has been shut down should be passed to Control by telephone as
soon as practicable on return to base so that the relevant utility can be informed.
8.4 In exceptional circumstances (e.g. elderly disabled occupant) the incident commander may pass such a message in the normal fashion.
