Chapter 18 Search and Rescue at a Building Collapse Flashcards
The best way to gain control of a collapse rescue effort is:
- incident commander to issue specific assignments to officers
- expand the incident command system assigning division officers and group officers areas and functionalities
- designate a victim tracking officer
- most importantly, use a collapse rescue plan
new lessons learned at Oklahoma and New York City, building collapses
- secure the collapse site, okc
- incident command system, dividing operations and to branch one for firefighting and one for search and rescue
- fire extinguishment
- collapse search and rescue
- site safety size up
- utility shut off
the collapse search and rescue plan using Oklahoma in New York City was
- secure the area
- survey the collapse site
- shut off utilities
- remove surface victims
- search voids and remove trapped victims
- take a timeout to re-examine safety and determine locations
- tunnel entrance to buried and trapped victims
- begin general rubble removal
how does the Oklahoma City in New York City searching rescue plan differ from the one used in London during World War II
- securing the area
- shut off utilities
- timeout to re-examine safety
experience has shown that after removing surface victims and void search, you have found __% of the victims
75
after ordering police to secure the area incident command must order what
a safety survey of the six sides of the clapped the four sides and above and below… firefighters must be order to examine the entire collapse site not just the front of the collapsed building
during the survey one of the four important things firefighter should look for?
- secondary collapse dangers
- fire spreading in the structure
- access areas to the interior of the collapsed structure and may be used by rescuers
- trapped victims, out of sight in the rear or side of a collapse area
the purpose of hose-lines and aerial master streams at a collapse site if nothing is on fire
to protect firefighters and exposures in case of a gas explosion or fire
after all surface victims have been removed in all voids search there should be a timeout, what is the purpose of the time
the risk-benefit analysis shifts, now safety of rescuers must be protected
safety survey, listening for victims
before rescuers start tunneling entrenching, victim tracking officer must be able to state the following
- missing person is confirmed by coworker took been inside the building during collapse
- person is not safe at a hospital or in an ambulance
- missing person is not being treated at first day or left the scene to go home
- the exact floor or the victim was last seen
- pinpoint the area where the collapse would have shifted the victim in the rubble
where would it V shaped collapse leaves victims
where would link to collapse shift victims
where would A- frame collapse shift victims
where would pancakes collapse shift victims
bottom of the v
lowest in of the lean to collapse
lower outer ends of collapse
may not shift victim
what is the job the transit perform at a collapse
transit can see a crack in a wall or wall movement not visible to the human eye from a safe distance
what is the concern of a secondary collapse at a structural collapse
secondary collapse can kill more rescuers in the number of firefighters originally trapped or buried and the danger of a secondary collapse increases as firefighters work and move about the falling building
what is the important point to remember when shoring
not to to move or attempt to restore the unstable structure to its original position, the goal is to gently place shoring beneath unstable structure barely in contact with it
what we called tunneling entrenching, London firefighters called
selected to debris removal
