Transcript Fire Ground Operations - Boyle County Fire Department

Fire Ground Operations
Command
Structure
Responsibilities
Roles
Command Structure
Incident Commander
Outside Sector Officer
Inside Sector Officer
Truck Company
Engine Company
Safety
RIT
PIO
Incident Commander
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Overall responsibility for all operations.
Directs fire operations.
Communicates with dispatch.
Communicates with Sector Officers, Safety and
PIO to gain information needed for fire attack.
Assigns fire ground responsibilities based on
information gathered from subordinates,
dispatch, public or any other means.
Outside Sector Officer
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to Incident Commander
 Monitors fire status and situation outside
the structure. Relays information to IC.
 Monitors and directs outside activities.
 Requests crew assignment as related to
outside activities.
Inside Sector Officer
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to Incident Commander
 Directs inside operations.
 Maintains accountability system.
 Requests crew assignments as related to
inside activities.
Safety Officer
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Reports to Incident Commander
Oversees fire ground safety.
Ensures all operations are conducted as safely as
possible.
Makes recommendations or changes to questionable
safety situations.
Consults with IC, Inside and Outside Sector Officers as
necessary and gives status reports as incident matures.
Has the authority to terminate ANY activity immediately
considered unsafe
Establishes and monitors Rehab.
Public Information Officer
 Reports
to Incident Commander
 Gathers information pertaining to incident.
 Consults with Command Staff on
information gathered to prepare a press
release
 Relays and reports information to the
media. Press release.
Rapid Intervention Team
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Reports to Safety
 Establishes RIT Staging area with associated tools and
equipment required for assignment.
 May be involved in various outside activities as long as
no interference with ability to go inside if activated.
 Upon activation, performs search and rescue of
firefighter or assist in emergency evacuation of inside
crews.
 MAINTAINS TEAM CONTINUITY. DOES NOT
FREELANCE. STAYS WITH TEAM UNTIL
REASSIGNED
RIT Team
TOOLS
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Tarpolean- set up RIT staging area
RIT Bag – contains SCBA Cylinder, regulator,
spare mask, transfill hose.
 Search tools
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Halligan
TNT Tool
Axe
Light
Rope
TIC
Others as required
Truck Company
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What Is A Truck Company?
 Truck companies are sometimes called “ladder" companies, "hook-andladder" companies, "aerial" companies, and "snorkel" companies. Such
labels might partially describe ladder company apparatus, but they do not
even hint at the planning, personnel, equipment and training that are
coordinated in an efficiently operating ladder company. A ladder truck and a
driver do not make a ladder company, any more than a pumper and a driver
make an engine company.
 The ladder company provides access to, and exits for, all parts of a fire
building. Ladder company crews also are responsible for removing heat,
smoke and gases to allow greater visibility and permit engine company
crews to move rapidly and safely within a fire building or exposed buildings.
These examples do not by any means include all the duties of a ladder
company, but they do illustrate two important points about ladder company
work.
1. Ladder work is required at every fire.
2. Ladder operations either accompany or precede engine operations.
Truck Company Ops
The ladder company should be thinking about
 Access and egress
 Life hazard
 Fire location and spread
 Window type and positions
 Forcible entry
 Building height and construction type
 Roof type and loading
 Ground ladder placement
 Defensive operations
 Collapse
 PPV possibilities
 Vertical ventilation profile
 Rescue
 Type and location of utilities
Truck Company
L.O.V.E.R.S.U.
 Ladder
 Overhaul
and Salvage
 Ventilation
 Entry – Forcible
 Rescue
 Search
 Utilities
Truck Company Ops
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for rescue, the duties may not
necessarily be performed in the given
order, and it may not be necessary to
perform all of the duties at every fire.
 Crews performing the initial duties
associated with the Truck Company
should be organized into inside and
outside teams if manpower permits.
Truck Company Ops
The inside team shall be responsible for
the following:
• Forcible Entry
• Immediate search and rescue of victims
• Assist engine company in locating the fire
• Ventilate as required
Truck Company Ops
The outside teams shall be responsible for the
following:
• Laddering for access, egress, rescue work and
exterior horizontal ventilation.
• Vertical ventilation - at the roof
• Where possible – perform a perimeter search of
the building for persons who may be trapped or
have fallen –from the roof
• Locating the fire – from the roof
• Transmit vital information to the I. C.
Truck Company Ops
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COMMUNICATION• Communications must be maintained with the
I.C. to monitor progress of engine company
operations and the I.C. shall be kept up to date
on the progress of the crew, update should
include but are not limited to: difficulty or failure
to complete the assignment, the assignment has
been completed or the crews position has been
changed and the reason why.
Truck Company Ops
TOOLS
• Axe (Flat or Pick) your
preference or pending job type
• Sledgehammer
• Light
• Ladder(s)
• Salvage Covers
• Hook – Halligan, roof, drywall
• Pike Pole
• TIC
• Chain Saw
• PW
Engine Company Ops
The Engine Company
should be thinking about.
• Life hazard
• Fire spread
• Building construction and
type
• Fire flow needed to
extinguish
• Water supply
• Hose line placement
Engine Company Ops
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Primary Objectives
Attack and extinguish fire
Act as a supply pumper and provide water to
other engines engaged in fire attack
Supply water to fire protection systems and
standpipes
Supply water to master stream appliances like
those found on aerial ladders or platforms.
(perhaps some day for us).
Engine Company Ops
Roles and responsibilities
1. Rescue
2. Exposure protection
3. Initial attack line
4. Heavy streams
5. Water supply
6. Fire protection systems
7. Second line
8. Overhaul
Engine Company Ops
The engine company officer/crew leader should begin gathering
information that will assist the crew(s) in stretching lines rapidly and
accurately to the fire area:
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Incident scene radio transmissions from IC-Truck Crew
Type and location of stairways
Occupants location and best means of egress
Search area for victims
Attempt to determine the seat of the fire
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While gathering information concerning the hose line stretches for the primary
and secondary attack lines, the company officer/crew leader should be alert to
building occupants with information relative to persons trapped or distressed.
Removing victims in immediate danger shall take precedence over advancing
an attack line. Whenever possible, advancement of the attack line should be
conducted simultaneously with the rescue of victims.
The selection of the size of the initial attack line shall be determined by the
conditions evaluated on arrival. A back up line should be put into operations as
soon as possible, preferably the next larger hose line in case the initial line
cannot flow the necessary water to control the fire.
Engine Company Ops
Hose Line Deployment
Attack lines are recommended to be deployed
according to the following priorities:
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Between trapped occupants and/or rescuers and
the fire.
Protect primary means of egress. Including
stairways.
Protect interior exposures.
Protect exterior exposures.
Fire control and extinguishment.
Operation of Master Streams
Engine Company Ops
Hose Line Selection
PRIVATE DWELLING – One or two family with
possible basement or attic apartment:
0 to 25% involvement
1. 1st attack line 1¾”
2. 2nd attack line 1¾”
25% to 100% involvement
1. 1st attack line 2½”
2. 2nd attack line 2½” or portable monitor
Engine Company Ops
Hose Line Selection
MULTIPLE DWELLING – Three or more family dwelling
with possible basement apartments and larger
apartment buildings:
Single dwelling unit fire
1. 1st attack line
2. 2nd attack line
1¾”
1¾”
Multiple dwelling units, or fire on upper floor driven by high winds
1. 1st attack Line
2½”
Greater than 50% involvement
1. 1st attack line
2½”
2. 2nd attack line
2½” or portable monitor, fixed, apparatus
mounted monitor
Engine Company Ops
Hose Line Selection
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COMMERCIAL – Row stores one or two story, big box
store (strip mall, taxpayer).
Smoke visible
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1st attack line
2½”
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2nd attack line
2½” or portable monitor
Fire visible
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1st attack line
2½”
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2nd attack line
2½” or 2nd portable monitor with 2 supply line
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Fixed, apparatus mounted monitor
Engine Company Ops
Hose Line Selection
INDUSTRIAL – Factory type, mill construction multistory
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1st attack line
2nd attack line
Back-up line
2½”
2½”
2nd 2½” or portable monitor, if possible
Greater than 25% involvement will require going directly to portable monitors or
fixed, apparatus mounted monitor.
Engine Company OPS
A.D.U.L.T.S.
When to use a larger hose line……
A- Advanced Fire Conditions
D- Defensive Fire Operations
U- Undetermined Fire Location
L- Large Area Structure
T- tons of water needed for extinguishment
S- Standpipe Operations
Engine Company
Tools
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Your PPE of
Course…and radio.
Light
Hoseline
TIC
Set of Irons
Small hook or pike
Your Personal Responsibility and
Duty on EVERY Scene or Incident
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Arrive to the scene safely.
GO TO TACTICAL CHANNEL.
Have ALL proper PPE on required for the incident. Make sure it is in proper
working order.
Report to IC.
Report to Accountability and deposit your tag.
NO FREELANCING.
Go to staging if not immediately assigned.
If not assigned STAY IN STAGING. THIS IS IMPORTANT. MANDATORY.
Do your own size up.
You are responsible for your personal safety and your teams safety as well.
When assigned to a team or group report to Accountability.
Stay with your team at all times. NO FREELANCING.
When assignment is complete report to your Sector Officer for additional
assignment. If no assignment, GO TO STAGING OR REHAB. Ensure your
assignment “status” is updated with the Accountability Officer.
Remember – if you do not have and assignment or are not in Rehab, you
are to be in the Staging area.
You Should Have….
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Your PPE- obviously, coat, pants, gloves,
helmet, flash hood… and your SCBA mask!
Accountability Tag
Radio
Visibility vest - for roadside scenes
Flashlight
Wire cutters
Screwdriver
PER (Personal Escape Rope) with carribeaner.
Things to think about
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Resources-Equipment-Water
Size up
Rescue – Everyone out?
Offensive -Defensive
Plan of Attack – where’s the fire?
Ventilation
RIT – 2 in 2 out
Accountability
Rehab
Salvage and Overhaul