Evacuation

Question 1

What is a planned evacuation?

Answer 1

The immediate movement of people away from actual or potential danger.

Question 2

What is the difference between places of relative and ultimate safety?

Answer 2

Relative - where there is no immediate danger but there may be future danger of fire
Ultimate - no immediate danger or risk of future danger

Question 3

What information regarding evacuation strategy should be ascertained during an SSRI of the building?

Answer 3

Whether there is a stay put or planned evacuation strategy

Question 4

What are the three stages of situational awareness?

Answer 4

Information Gathering
Understanding information
Anticipation

Question 5

What are the three stages of a phased evacuation

Answer 5

Initial (fire floor, floor above and floor below)
Partial (after DRA, usually two floors at a time
Full Evacuation

Question 6

What does EACIE mean?

Answer 6

Evacuation alert control and indicating system

Question 7

The IC must consider emergence evacuation if certain triggers are observed, what are they?

Answer 7

Fire and / or producers of combustion quickly spreading from one compartment to another internally
Fire breaking out of the compartment externally
Fire and / or products of combustion spreading rapidly across multiple floors internally / externally
Fire in external cladding
FSG being received from locations remote to the original fire