BOOK 100 Flashcards
The ______________ is responsible for the management of all incident operations
Incident Commander
The ____________ reports to the Incident Commander and is responsible for the recon and assessment of hazardous or unsafe situations such as fire behavior changes to assure personnel safety
Safety Officer
The _______________ provides liaison between the media and the Incident Commander, consults with the Incident Commander regarding any constraints on the release of information and prepares press briefings
Public Information Officer (PIO)
The _____________ provides a point of contact for assisting/cooperating agencies and identifies current or potential inter-agency needs
Liaison Officer
The _______________ assists the Incident Commander in planning the overall strategy for containment of the incident
Planning Section Chief
The _______________ shall be activated for major fires or unusual incidents to provide a comprehensive, chronological record of incident activities
Documentation Unit
The _______ company on scene shall be the Fire Attack Team.
First
What is the responsibility of the Fire Attack Team?
To enter the building, determine a safe means of ascent and locate the emergency
Once the Fire Attack Team has found the emergency, the officer must communicate what to the Incident Commander?
The officer must communicate the Location, Nature and Extent of the problem to the Incident Commander
The Division is identified by the _________ on which a company is operating.
Floor Number (i.e. if the company attacks the fire on the 12th floor, that officer would be designated Division 12)
What is a Rapid Intervention Company?
A company or companies designated to standby in a state of readiness to perform a rescue effort of Department members
In a high rise incident, the RIC team is normally assembled and deployed from where?
Normally assembled and deployed from Staging (which is normally located two floors below the fire floor)
The ______________ is a functional position with the responsibility for supervising one or more Rapid Intervention Company(s) assigned to standby for or perform the rescue of firefighters
Rapid Intervention Group Supervisor
The ______________ is a functional position with the responsibility for supervising companies involved in the search and rescue, and the evacuation of building occupants to the ground level
Search Group Supervisor
The ______________ is a functional position with the responsibility of the control and safety of building occupants from the ground level to an assembly level outside of the building.
Evacuation Group Supervisor
The ____________ reports to the Incident Commander/Operations Chief and is responsible for fire suppression and rescue activities within a geographic area, usually a specific floor.
Division Supervisor (Division 15, Division 16, Roof Division, etc.)
A ____________ reports to the Incident Commander/Operations Chief and is responsible for the performance of a specific function, and is not limited to a geographic area
Group Supervisor (Ventilation Group, Salvage Group, Search Group, Elevator Group, etc.)
Staging is normally located where?
Normally located two floors below the fire
If established by the Incident Commander, what is the Elevator Group’s primary responsibility?
To locate and search for unaccounted elevators which may contain building occupants
If needed, a _____________ can be implemented to assist Lobby Control with monitoring and maintaining the buildings built-in fire control, life safety, environmental control, communications and elevator systems
Systems Control Unit
What is the responsibility of the Ground Support Group (formally Stairwell Support)?
The Ground Support Group is responsible for providing transportation for personnel, equipment, and supplies; providing and refilling of SCBA cylinders and maintenance of SCBAs; provide fueling and maintenance of vehicles and portable power equipment and tools; and implementing the ground level traffic/movement plan at the incident including marking safe access routes and zones and coordinates the transport of equipment via the stairwells
Base shall be established a minimum of ____ feet away from the incident structure
200 feet away from the incident structure
The difference between a successful emergency operation which is brought to an early conclusion and one that becomes a protracted effort, often heavily taxing a department’s resources, depends on what?
Depends greatly on actions taken by first arriving companies
What is the normal first alarm assignment for a reported fire in a high rise structure?
- (5) Fire companies consisting of (2) trucks and (3) engines
- (1) airborne Engine company component
- (1) BLS ambulance
- (1) ALS ambulance
- (1) EMS Captain
- (1) Battalion Chief
- A squad company will respond to incidents in specific first-in districts
In a high rise incident, a minimum of a ____-member initial fire attack team shall ascend to the reported floor
Four-member. Two members of this team shall be used as fire attack while the remaining two members standby in the stairwell
In a high rise incident, what is the responsibility of the Second-In Company?
The Second-In Company establishes Lobby Control and the Officer becomes the Incident Commander
Supplying water to the building standpipe system will be the responsibility of the first arriving ____________.
200 Series Engineer, except when the first and second arriving companies are single engine companies. In this case, the Engineer of the second arriving company has the responsibility for water supply
At a high rise incident, plan for early relief (___ to ___ minutes) for fire control personnel.
10 to 15 minutes
The command post should be a safe distance from the building; minimum ____ feet.
Minimum 200 feet
Base should be a safe distance from the building (at least ____ feet) and not in proximity to the command post.
At least 200 feet
The Air Operations Helispot should be at least _____ from the involved building.
1/2 mile
At a high rise incident, helicopters should remain a minimum of ___ feet from the involved building while in flight and away from the Command Post.
Minimum of 500 feet
A Division is a specific _________ area, usually one floor in a high rise incident.
GEOGRAPHIC
At a high rise incident, the ________ determines the means of ascent.
The Captain determines the means of ascent
Who has the ultimate responsibility to authorize (or discontinue) the use of elevators?
The Incident Commander
According to Book 100, the Fire Attack Team shall take what equipment when ascending to the fire?
- Breathing Apparatus
- Portable Radios
- Rotary Saw or Forcible Entry Tools
- Thermal Imaging (Infrared) Camera
- High Rise Hose Packs
- When feasible, the following additional equipment should be taken:
- Portable Spotlight
- Extra Air Bottles
- Portable Extinguisher (mandatory if elevators are used)
If elevators are utilized as a means of ascent, they shall not be taken to a location closer than ____ floors below the reported fire floor or ____ floors below the lowest indicated alarm floor location.
Two floors below the reported fire floor or two floors below the lowest indicated alarm floor location
When more than one company is assigned to rapid intervention operations, who should be assigned as the Rapid Intervention Group Supervisor?
A Battalion Commander
The RIC SCBA Kit is assigned to what resources?
- Truck Companies
- HazMat Squads
- USAR apparatus
The RIC SCBA Kit consists of:
- Nylon bag with sling and carrying handles
- 60 minute air cylinder
- First stage pressure reducer with 10 feet of intermediate pressure hose
- Second stage regulator
- Facepiece
- Pelican
- 150 feet drop bag line
- Flashlight with integrated holder (3 “C” batteries)
The stairwell door to the fire floor should not be opened into the evacuation stairwell when building occupant are present, except __________.
When it necessitates a civilian and/or firefighter rescue
Traditionally, occupant evacuation of the fire floor and the _____ floors above and below has been sufficient.
Two floors above. However, evacuation priorities are determined on specific needs of the incident and conditions within the building
Once occupants have been evacuated, either through self-evacuation or directed by fire service personnel, Police Department assistance should be requested to assist in directing evacuees to a safe location, at a minimum ____ feet from the affected structure.
At a minimum 200 feet from the affected structure
At a high rise incident, the helispot location should be located at least _______ from the incident site.
1/2 mile. This will result in minimum impact on incident operations from the noise and rotor down wash from the aircraft.
Apparatus at Base during a high rise incident should park _________.
Diagonally, so that apparatus can be moved independently
The _______ in company at a high rise incident is responsible for establishing Lobby Control and the Officer becomes the Incident Commander (until relieved by a higher ranking officer)
Second in company
_________ are the most effective means of transporting personnel and equipment aloft in high rise buildings.
Elevators
If needed, a ______________ can be implemented to relieve Lobby Control of the responsibilities associated with monitoring and maintaining the buildings built-in fire control, life safety, HVAC systems, communications and elevator systems.
Systems Control Unit
What is the main responsibility of the Ground Support Unit?
To transport equipment via a stairwell, on a priority basis, from ground level to the Staging floor
The Ground Support Unit should consider ____ member(s) per ____ floor(s) and ____ officer(s) per ____ or ____ members.
One member per two floors and one officer per four or five members
For our purposes, a high rise building is defined as a building which is over ___ in height.
Over 75’ in height, measured from ground level access to the floor level of the highest floor intended for occupant use
What are the two highest priorities during high rise operations?
Fire attack and evacuation
In the event of a high rise fire, the danger to building occupants could develop from ___ sources.
Three sources
1) Occupants could be directly exposed to the actual fire
2) Possibility that a panic could result from the knowledge or belief that a fire is in progress in the building
3) Exposure to smoke and the products of combustion (by far the gravest threat)
High rise buildings in the City are designed with ___-hour fire resistance between floors and around vertical openings. This effectively compartmentalizes each floor and reduces the likelihood of vertical fire spread
Two-hour
The most effective means of saving lives and facilitating rescue in a high rise fire emergency is ____________________.
An aggressive attack on the fire
TRUE OR FALSE: Where possible, separate stairwells should be utilized for emergency personnel access and occupant evacuation
TRUE
Our standard operating guideline will require the use of _____ to indicate the progress of the search, the current location and identity of the searchers, and to prevent duplication of effort.
Chalk. As a search company enters a floor, a large, single, diagonal chalk line and the company designation shall be made on the entry door. When the office suite, or dwelling unit has been searched, a second diagonal line is placed on the door making a large “X”. The door is left closed to minimize smoke and fire spread. When all rooms on the floor have been searched and marked, the company shall complete the “X” along with their company identification on the stairwell door of the floor just searched and move on to the next floor.
For a working fire, relocate occupants from the fire floor and at least ____ floors above and ____ floors below the fire to a safe location, preferable below the fire, to facilitate our operations.
Two floors above and two floors below
In most situations we can provide for occupant safety and Fire Department access by clearing ____ floors
5 floors
What is the definition of “physically challenged?”
Anyone who without the assistance of another person would have difficulty evacuating or relocating to a safe location either inside or outside the building, or slow down the evacuation of other occupants within the building. These individuals should be kept on a list within the Building Emergency Plans
At a high rise fire, the objective of the fire suppression efforts will be to ______, _______, and ________________.
Locate, confine and extinguish the fire
TRUE OR FALSE: The Fire Code requires an interior lock box for Fire Department use.
TRUE. This is usually found at the building’s lobby security post or in the fire control room
What is the safest and most reliable route to the fire floor for the Fire Attack Team at a high rise incident?
Stairwells
___________ stairwells may only service alternate floors, skipping every other floor or exit at the opposite end of the building.
Scissor-type
Stairwell door at high rise incidents are sometimes difficult to identify. Stairwell does can usually be distinguished by other types of doors by _______________ and ________________.
By their double-door width and key cylinder lock
Some stairwell doors are held closed by a magnetic device requiring ___-pound pressure to overcome it. If the key unlocks the door, but it resists opening, give it a hard pull
25-pound