SALVAGE AND OVERHAUL Sno. County Training Officers 1 st Quarter 2017

1. SALVAGE AND OVERHAULSno. County Training Officers1st Quarter 2017

2. Performance Skills • 1: One-Firefighter Salvage Roll and One-Firefighter Salvage Spread • 2: Two-Firefighter Salvage Fold and Two-Firefighter Spread • 3: Cleaning and Inspecting Salvage Covers

3. VALUE OF LOSS CONTROL • Adds value to the department’s services • Promotes fire fighting as a craft • Builds goodwill within the community • Receives praise and recognition in the media • Gives firefighters a feeling of accomplishment • Leads to better morale and efficiency among firefighters

4. PURPOSE OF SALVAGE • To reduce damage from fire, smoke, water, heat, cold, or weather during and after a fire

5. PURPOSES OF OVERHAUL • To search out and extinguish hidden fires • To protect the scene after the fire • To preserve evidence of the fire’s origin and cause • To restore premises to safe condition

6. SALVAGE PLANNING • Salvage SOPs • Special preplans for buildings with high-value contents • Awareness of contents vital to businesses in commercial occupancies • Working with loss control representatives of local businesses • Consider making salvage tarps part of your job and tool assignments for Attic Fires.

7. SALVAGE PROCEDURES • When to begin salvage operations • Coordinating salvage with fire attack • How to arrange and protect building contents • Commercial occupancy challenges • Removing large quantities of water • Heavy emphasis should be put on salvage, especially for attic fires.

8. COORDINATING FIRE ATTACK & SALVAGE

9. COORDINATING FIRE ATTACK & SALVAGE

10. HOW TO ARRANGE & PROTECT BUILDING CONTENTS • Gathering in close piles in center of room • Placing high objects at ends of piles and using rolled rugs as ridgepoles • Placing small objects (pictures, curtains, lamps) on larger objects such as couches or beds • Using water-resistant materials to raise furniture off wet floors

11. COMMERCIAL OCCUPANCY CHALLENGES • Ceiling-to-floor Display Shelves • Contents Stacked too Close to Ceiling • Unpalleted Storage High-piled Stock

12. WAYS OF REMOVING LARGE QUANTITIES OF WATER • Cleaning clogged drains • Removing toilet fixtures • Creating scuppers • Using existing sanitary piping systems • Affixing chutes

13. SALVAGE COVER CHARACTERISTICS • May be canvas, vinyl, or disposable plastic • Has reinforced corners and hems • Has grommets in hem edges • Is difficult to adapt plastic covers to traditional salvage cover folds

14. SALVAGE EQUIPMENT ON APPARATUS

15. LOCATION OF SALVAGE EQUIPMENT ON APPARATUS • Always locate in one area on apparatus to eliminate the need to search the apparatus for equipment • Store smaller tools and equipment on apparatus in a specially designated salvage tool box or other container to make them easy to carry

16. TYPICAL SALVAGE EQUIPMENT • Automatic sprinkler kit • Carryall • Floor runner • Dewatering device • Water vacuum • Squeegee • Mop and wringer bucket

17. FOLDS & ROLLS • One-Person Roll • Two-Person Fold • Accordion Fold • One-Person Double Roll • One-Person Fold

18. MAINTAINING SALVAGE COVERS • Inspecting • Cleaning • Drying/hanging • Repairing

19. ROUTING WATER

20. DEFINITION OF OVERHAUL • The practice of searching a fire scene to detect hidden fires or sparks that may rekindle and to identify the possible point of origin and cause of fire

21. TOOLS & EQUIPMENT USED IN OVERHAUL • Battery-powered saws, drills, and screwdrivers • Carryalls, buckets, and tubs • Shovels, bale hooks, and pitchforks • Electronic sensors • Pike poles • Plaster hooks • Axes

22. OVERHAUL SAFETY GUIDELINES & PROCEDURES • Make sure that your very first overhaul step is determining the condition of the building • Wear proper protective clothing, including positive-pressure SCBA • Wear eye protection when it is safe to remove breathing apparatus • Use 1½-inch or 1¾-inch charged attack lines for extinguishing hidden fires

23. OVERHAUL SAFETY GUIDELINES & PROCEDURES • Extinguish small hidden fires during minor overhaul operations with air-pressurized water extinguishers or booster lines, backed up by at least one attack line • Avoid additional water damage

24. AVOIDING ADDITIONAL WATER DAMAGE • Place nozzle in such a way that if it is accidentally opened it will cause no additional water damage • Tighten or repair leaking couplings • Use a 100-foot length of hose as the first section on attack lines

25. PRIMARY FACTORS AFFECTING BUILDING CONDITION • Fire Intensity • Amount of Water Used

26. CHECKING FOR & EXTINGUISHING FIRE EXTENSION • If floor beams are burned at their ends where they enter a party wall— • Flush with water • Check far side of wall and extinguish as necessary • Remove, check, and extinguish insulation materials • If fire has burned around doors and windows, open door and window casings and extinguish fires

27. CHECKING FOR & EXTINGUISHING FIRE EXTENSION • If fire has burned around a combustible roof or cornice, open the cornice and inspect for hidden fires • If sensory or electronic sensor indicates, remove materials and extinguish hidden fires in concealed spaces below floors, above ceilings, or within walls

28. REMOVING DEBRIS & WATER • Use carryalls (debris bags) to remove debris • To catch falling debris • To provide a water basin for immersing small burning objects Use water vacuums, scoops, shovels, mop wringers and buckets, submersible pumps to remove water

29. CARRYALL

30. Assignment: • Companies if able to do so, should set up a scenario with running water. • Route the water, and catch the water for the drill.