High Rise Office Flashcards
High Rise Office:
Building specs:
Pre-1945?
1945 to 1968?
After 1968?
1945 pre-: heavyweight, no plenums, Windows openable
1945 to 1968: medium weight, fire towers required
Post 1968: lightweight, lack of compartmentation, windows not openable, core construction
High Rise Office:
More problematic: noncentral or central air?
Central versus non central air?
Central is more problematic.
Central: more than one floor
Non central: one floor
High Rise Office:
HVAC: do we shut them down?
How to place in noncirculating mode?
Yes shut down, then determine fire floor
Open outside dampers
Close mixing dampers
Open exhaust dampers
High Rise Office:
How does fire spread via HVAC?
Through flexible connectors.
High Rise Office:
Should the bypass valve be open or closed on the pump?
Can we start the pump without checking the bypass valve?
Closed (stem in)
Yes
High Rise Office:
How do you start the fire pumps?
Close Knife switch
Close Circuit breaker
Push start Button
Move selector Lever
Kansas City Baseball League
KCBL
High Rise Office:
What is the recommended pump pressure for floors 1 to 10?
101-110?
150 psi
650 psi
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What floors require high pressure pumping?
Third stage preferred?
Third stage required?
31-40 high pressure (over 250)
81-90 3rd preferred (over 500)
101-110 3rd required (over 600)
High Rise Office:
When both pumps are operating correctly should the pressures be equal?
Yes or nearly so
High Rise Office:
What is the primary water supply for fire fighting and most operations?
FD engines
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How many engines should be supplying?
Separate engine for each hand line
High Rise Office:
When can we operate a hose line from a stairway?
Only after it has been cleared of building occupants
High Rise Office:
What type of stairway is preferable for the evacuation stairway?
A fire tower
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Where is the fire sector?
Where does the fire sector supervisor position himself?
The fire floor and the floor above
Floor below the fire
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Channels:
Ic
Aide
Fire sector
Aide
SAE
Aide
Forward staging
Aide
Ic - command 2
Aide - tactical 1
Fire sector- tactical 1
Aide - command 2
SAE - secondary tactical 3 (three letters)
Aide - command
Forward staging - command 2
Aide - tactical 1
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Where should the staging area be?
Away from the building
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Where should forward triage be?
A floor below forward staging
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Who establishes the ICP?
Who do they designated to staff the ICP?
First arriving officer
Preferably the chauffeur of the first truck
High Rise Office:
What companies should be at Forward staging?
How many spare cylinders?
Three engines two trucks, 20 spare cylinders
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What should engine companies bring to forward staging?
Trucks?
Cylinder per member
Length per member
Standpipe kit
Cylinder per member
Search and utility ropes
Two sets of irons, 6 foot hooks
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If the building has fixed pressurization stay away, can we augment?
No
High Rise Office:
When should a vertical ventilation commence via the stairway?
Once the fire is extinguished
High Rise Office:
At what height of a building is the Stack affect noticeable?
When does positive stack effect increase?
When does negative stack effect occur?
60 feet
As the outside temperature decreases in relation to temp inside the building
Outside temp is greater than the temp inside the building, greatest possibility when air temperature is above 90°F
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Where should the SAE group supervisor be located?
At least five floors above the fire floor
Not serviced by the same bank as the fire floor
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Where should forward staging area be?
Two floors below the original fire floor
Have ready access to fire sector and attach their way
High Rise Office:
The fire command station has to wear communications with what?
Wamee pump
Warden stations Air handling rooms Mechanical center Elevators Elevator rooms
Pump room
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Pull stations: should be no more than how many feet from each other?
Sound and alarm where?
200 feet; fire floor and floor above
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Smoke detectors: shall cause what?
Smoke detector in the HVAC system?
Recall elevators Fire alarm on FF and floor above (2008 code will alarm on floor below as well) Alarm to FD Alarm to fire station mechanical st., Stop air supply into and return on the floor activated Unlock doors Start exhaust fans
Everything except recalling elevators
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First truck: who inspects the exterior?
LCC
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Who selects the attack stair?
First LCO
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Second truck goes where?
Which elevator do they use?
Fire floor
Preferably same elevator used by the first truck
**Does not say they have to get off two floors below
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Third truck: goes where?
Gets off elevator where?
Duties?
Gets off elevator two floors below
Goes to floor above via a stair other than the attack
Determines the Evac stair
Remove occupants from the attack stair for a reasonable distance above the fire floor
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Fourth truck:
Goes where, how?
Searches what?
Proceeds to roof; uses an elevator that does not service the fire floor.
**If roof elevator services the fire floor must get off on the floor below the fire and walk up to the roof.
Primary search of the top five floors
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Second engine brings what?
Provides two communications links to whom?
Brings post radio; establishes a link between lobby and fire area; provides communications between standpipe and nozzle: remains out outlet until hose line is operating at correct nozzle pressure
High Rise Office:
Third and fourth engines stretches a line where?
They reinforce and protect the first line; it does not say anything about going above
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Greater alarm or special cold engines report where?
ICP»_space; lobby control»_space; staging area
