High Rise Plans MP202.11 Flashcards
A high-rise building is defined as ?
- 6 elevator stops or greater
- or 75 feet in height or greater.
High-rise Building Size-up:
Exterior View ?
- Often hide fire and smoke due to building being well sealed and large internal capacity
- Estimate potential for falling debris and/or major structural collapse
- Guide responding companies around these hazards
High-rise Building Size-up:
Interior View ?
-RP/Building personnel information/accounts
-Is building being evacuated?
-Alarm indications
-Stairwell assessment
•Number of stairwells?
•Conditions within?
How are they labeled?
-Have the elevators been recalled?
-What resources are responding?
•Additional alarms needed based on observations?
•Risk Management Assessment for high rise buildings
What 7 Questions do you ask your self
- Is the building occupied?
- Commercial or Residential? - What caused this incident?
- Accidental fire
- Intentional
- Unknown - How has the incident affected the buildings integrity?
- Is the building going to allow fire and/or rescue operations
- Will inaction cause the building to collapse into other buildings? - Fire location?
- What floor?
Tactical Objective high rise:
Rescue?
Rescue:
-Secure/maintain viable evacuation and fire attack stairwell
-Each must be declared to CMD or AHQ prior to making way to the fire floor
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Tactical Objective high rise:
Fire Attack?
Fire Attack:
-Assess fire/smoke conditions
-Provide water supply via standpipe
-Stop production smoke/heat
-Manage the spread of heat/smoke thru building:
-use building systems:
sprinklers, standpipes, fire pumps, HVAC
-PFD equip: vent truck,
portable fans carried on trucks
natural ventilation
Property Conservation:
*high value occupancies,
*involve more than 1 floor
Deployment for high rise:
-1st arriving Eng or Ladder establishment of what?
Think simple
1st arriving Engine or Ladder company should assume command
Deployment for high rise:
-1st Engine?
1st Engine:
- spot close to interior access as possible Proceed to build lobby/gain access to Fire Control Room or Building alarm panel
- Establish Building systems Sector w/ 1 member from engine
- Initiate Lobby size-up
Deployment for high rise:
-2nd Engine?
2nd Engine:
- Should establish water connection to building standpipe system
- Engineer stay with pumper
- Capt to Fire Control Room/alarm panel and meet w/ 1st Eng capt and ladder Capts.
Deployment for high rise:
-1st Ladder?
1st Ladder:
- Spot in position to use ladder for rescue/defensive firefight
- Proceed to lobby
- Capt to fire control room/alarm panel meet up with 1st Eng company capt
- Crew should begin elevator assessment for possible use
High rise fire
All additional operational resources:
- After declaration of a working fire, all 1st And 2nd alarm companies should proceed Where? and Why?
- to the building and report to lobby sector.
- Decreases transit time
-High rise Lobby sector will be operating on _______ radio channel.
Staging
High rise Sectorization:
Building systems responsibility’s ?
(5 things)
- Distribute keys, phones, and floor maps (may be turned over to Lobby Sector)
- Manage all building systems including personnel to access all remote building systems
- fire pump
- Ventilation and pressurization systems -Emergency Generators
High rise Sectorization:
Fire floor responsibility’s ?
- Manage work cycles on floor and in stairwells
- Create on-deck staging area for companies in a clean environment
High rise Sectorization:
Stairwell teams responsibility’s ?
- Fire Attack Stairwell team/Evacuation Stairwell team
- Dedicated crews to directly manage stairwells and occupants moving in them
- Not involved with the fire attack
High rise Sectorization:
Ventilation responsibility’s ?
-Manage built in ventilation and pressurization system (assess the effectiveness of systems)
High rise Sectorization:
Lobby responsibility’s ?
- Work w/ staging sector on staging radio channel
- All comapanies on 1st 2 alarms should proceed directly to Lobby Sector
- Crew Acct tracked based on assignment (ultimately tracked by CMD)
High rise Sectorization:
Resource responsibility’s ?
- Establish equipment pool
- Needs to be well below the on-deck floor (decrease chances of contamination)
High rise Sectorization:
Treatment/Transportation responsibility’s ?
- May be remote from building
- Triage is key
- Large volume of resources may be needed
High rise Fire Attack:
- Crew Accountability
- Stairwell teams responsibility are ?
- Stairwell teams: Immediate deployment to stairwell
- Provide CAN report from stairwell -Assist in establishing operational/tactical priorities -Access roof to establish viable exit if necessary
- Rescue immediately endangered
- Not involved in fire attack
High rise Fire Attack:
Hose line deployment for High rise fire attack?
Small diameter hand lines
- Fire Attack (offensive type activity)
- Back up line with 2.5"
Larger diameter hand lines or master streams
-Prevent fire extension floor to floor
(defensive type activity)High rise Fire Attack:
Use of elevators for High rise fire attack?
-Determine if conditions exist that prohibit elevator use
-Determine when elevators can be used safely
-Elevators must be prepped for use under fire conditions
•Roof hatch opened
•Appropriate tools present including telescoping ladder
An evacuation stairwell is What?
A stairwell dedicated to the removal of occupants from building
A fire attack stairwell is what?
A stairwell dedicated to the fire attack operation, ideally w/ roof access w/ no evacuation traffic to impede the FA operations
Rescue Profile for high rise in order of priority who do we help first?
( 6 )
- Most severely threatened
- Largest number
- Escape routes or methods of removal
- Protect in place
- Use of PD in Lobby sector
- Each building is directed by fire code to have an evacuation plan including a meeting place outside, away from the building
