SOG 3-02 high rise fires Flashcards
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High rise fires procedure initial response shall follow
Procedures outlined in SOG 03-24 Structure fires
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For high rise the first alarm responsibilities may include (8)
- Determine incident location by speaking to on duty building employees
- Access security key box taking Nessie’s sry keys and leaving the rest with a trustworthy person
- Establish lobby sector
- Deliver an initial message to tenet a/occupants, where lobby voice controls
- Secure elevators to ground floor
- Assign elevator operator, who may double as ECP during initial operations
- bring high rise kit for potential operations
- Where fire suspected, apparatus closest to the standpipe/ sprinkler connections should connect dry lines
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High rise search and rescue. The IC shall ensure search and rescue is carried out with areas posing the greatest threat to life being priority. Other areas to be searched in the following priority may include (8)
- suite of origin
- fire floor hallway
- adjacent suites
- the suite immediately above
- remainder of suites on fire floor
- all stairwells in entirety
- the floor immediately below the fire floor
- other affected areas
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High rise 3 tactical areas
Lobby, forward staging, tenant/ media relations
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High rise lobby may be used for (8)
- building control/comms Center if equipped
- instruction to tenants
- monitoring progress
- initial assembly/staging for crews, supply and equipment
- staging other agencies
- medical triage
- crew rehab
- distribution point for evacuated tenants
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High rise forward staging shall be located
At least 2 floors below the incident.
Note ground or second floor incidents may necessitate the establishment of external forward staging
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High rise forward staging maybe used for (5)
- Staging PPE prior to entry
- forward entry control
- forward staging RIT
- initial rehab area for personnel
- initial medical triage
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High rise tenant/ media relations area shall be
Established at the discretion of IC. The establishment of such shall warrant the IC designate a media relations officer
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High rise safety considerations
- Ensure tactics do not compromise building protection devices
- ensure smoke is controlled
- ensure that evacuation is controlled and evacuation routes are separate from emergency and smoke control
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High rise, Additional Alarm response shall be initiated at the discretion of IC. Consideration should be given to additional alarms when it is obvious that the fire is progressing to the point where it has potential too (3)
- Further endanger the life and safety of persons in building
- spread horizontally on fire floor or vertically in building interior
- break out to the building exterior with subsequent exposure threats
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Where annunciator panel shows multiple indications
Floors shall be check in order from closet to ground up
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Should personal determine elevator is safe
They shall use the designated elevator and shall proceed no higher that two-floors below the alarm/fire
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High rise. If no problem is found on alarm/fire floor.
Check floors below and above. If safe consider silencing alarms
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4 things personnel assigned to lobby sector shall ensure
- mechanical ventilation shutdown
- building smoke control
- release of automatic door closure and exit door locks
- fire telephones in operation
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If an ecp moves to forward staging
The must remember PITs for crew already in hot zone
