Ladder Company Procedures Flashcards
DESCRIPTION OLD LAW TENEMENTS
- Three to seven stories.
- 20’ to 25’ wide.
- 50’ to 85’ deep.
- Interior stairs to cellar (may have been removed if building has been renovated).
- Some form of light/air shaft may be provided.
- Limited fire stopping.
- Combustible contents and structural components result in a hot smoky fire.
- The presence of Energy Efficient Windows (EEW) will further increase heat, gases and smoke conditions, possibly leading to a flashover or backdraft.
Light Fire Situation - a fire which can be extinguished with the operation of one handline and/or hand extinguishers or those that can be readily extinguished without resorting to extinguishing agents.
Medium Fire Situation - a fire which may be extinguished with the OPERATION of two handlines.
Old Law Tenement
1st Arriving Ladder Co Officer
Ensure that entry doors at street level are chocked open
Maintain control of fire apartment door by leaving a member of the forcible entry team as per Training Bulletin, Search 1. Notify the Incident Commander AND Engine Company Officer of the location of the fire apartment and when you enter to search for the location of the fire.
Ladders 3
The Ladder Company Officer inside the fire area shall:
Communicate the location of the fire, fire conditions or difficulty finding the fire to _______________________________
the Engine Officer OR the IC
Ladders 3
Ladder chauffeur should remain on turntable when members have entered the building
by aerial ladder and are in precarious positions such as a floor over a heavy fire, the roof of a building with a heavy fire condition, etc.
Unless addressing a known life hazard, upon hearing radio transmissions that the interior team has door control on the fire floor, or a charged hoseline is advancing into the fire apartment, the Roof Firefighter shall immediately proceed to the bulkhead and perform vertical ventilation.
If conditions are tenable, the member should reach in and probe the immediate area of the bulkhead for potential victims. Once bulkhead ventilation is completed, the Roof Firefighter shall complete the roof size-up outlined above.
The Roof Firefighter may perform vertical ventilation without direct communication upon hearing radio transmissions that the interior team has door control on the fire floor, or _____________________________________________________________
a charged hoseline is advancing into the fire apartment.
FIRST LADDER COMPANY TO ARRIVE (TOWER LADDER) - OLD LAW TENEMENT NO FRONT FIRE ESCAPE
If necessary, the officer may request the ________ Firefighter to perform outside ventilation of the fire apartment from the fire escape after completion of preliminary duties.
If necessary, the officer may request the Roof Firefighter to perform outside ventilation of the fire apartment from the fire escape after completion of preliminary roof ventilation (bulkhead, scuttle, skylight).
Ladders 3
2nd Due Truck
Before proceeding above, the officer must size up conditions on the fire floor. The following should be considered:
Severity and location of fire.
Line placement and availability of water.
Control of fire apartment door.
Consideration of an area of refuge before going above.
Ladders 3
2nd Due Truck
Canman: tool change for top floor fires
(2) 6’ Hooks instead of Can
Ladders 3
Under no conditions should the cornice be opened for smoke. If still doubtful about the existence of fire in the cornice or cockloft, it can be examined by
opening the ceiling below, or opening the returns if present.
Roof Cuts
Ladders 3: Initially approximately a _______ coffin cut is recommended
Taxpayers: ________
Roof Cuts
Ladders 3: Initially approximately a 3x6 coffin cut is recommended
Taxpayers: 8’x8’
Ladders 3
Simultaneous need for aerial ladder for roof firefighter and Occupant removal:
FAT SLIDE
Take the occupant first if they are:
F - Frightened
A - agitated
T - threatening to jump
S - smoke or fire in vicinity L - location or severity of fire I - immediate danger D - doubt E - endangered or seriously disturbed
Ladders 6 Tower Ladders
A properly positioned TL provides wall coverage from grade level or below, up to a maximum basket floor elevation of __’ (approximately), at the maximum __ degree angle.
The basket while touching a point 32 feet horizontally from center of turntable can reach a basket floor elevation of ___ feet.
TL scrub area covers the front of a building 60 feet high and 50 feet wide, and will cover a _____________________________________.
TL has a scrub area of approximately 7750 square feet when the center of the turntable is 32 feet from building wall and cab is at a ___ degree angle from the building line.
The basket can also reach points ___ feet below grade.
70’ / 75 degree angle
65’
100 foot frontage on the lower three floors of a building.
15 degree angle from the building line
10 feet below grade
Ladders 6 Tower Ladders
When the center line of turntable is ___ feet from a building, there will be sufficient room for basket to be dropped below the horizontal with the boom perpendicular to the side of the apparatus.
Ideal horizontal distance from objectives is ___ feet. At ___ feet from center line of turntable to building, allowance is made for sidewalks, outriggers and parked vehicles.
While 75 feet is the nominal height, the actual working height (the bottom of the basket at its highest elevation), is little more than ___ feet when boom is at the maximum angle of ___ degrees.
Grades up to ___% slope may be treated as level ground.
25 feet
32 feet
70’ @ 75 degrees
4% slope may be treated as level ground
Ladders 6 Tower Ladders
The maximum “slope” for TL operation has been set at ___% grade by the manufacturer for safe performance of apparatus.
15%
A difference of slightly over 5-1/2 feet from front to rear of apparatus approximately 15% slope.
