Welcome To High Rise Operations !

1. Welcome To High Rise Operations ! Like The Jefferson's... MHFD Is Moving On Up!

2. Today's Class Outline Engine Company Operations Ladder Company Operations Today's Class Outline High Rise Tactics Control Of Building Systems

3. What is a high rise? What “high rise/multi story” concerns do we have in our city?

4. How Many Types Of Multi Story Buildings With Standpipes and/or Sprinklers Buildings In Our City ?

5. 30

8. Sprinklered ? Standpiped ? Neither ? Both ?

9. Standpiped, no sprinklers

10. Sprinklered

11. This building used to have no standpipes, it does now. No sprinklers

12. No Sprinklers No Standpipes

13. Multistory tactics, without the assistance of a standpipe, at what would initially thought to be a simple residential building.

14. High Rise Fire Priorities • Establish a command post • Locate the fire • Report the fire’s location & magnitude • Attack the fire • Supplement fire protection systems • Establish control of building systems • Establish operations and staging area

15. Control Of Building Systems Elevator HVAC

16. Elevator Control

18. HVAC

19. engine co. Operations

20. Sprinkler & Standpipe review

21. Operations in sprinklered buildings

22. Standpipes 101 DRY WET COMBINATION

23. Sprinkler Control Valves

25. Air Chamber Flow switch Sprinkler control valve Siamese connection Dry system Wet system compressor Main drain

27. Standpipe Supply

28. 2 2 1/2" Lines At 100 PSI + 5 PSI Per Floor Establish A Secondary Supply If Possible

29. Troubles With Siamese Connections Missing Caps Defective Threads Debris Tight Caps Broken Clappers

30. Tighten All Caps Anchor Lines With Rope Try To Connect Hose On Side of Truck Opposite of Panel Remove All Firefighters From Within 50 Feet Of Hose

31. Standpipe Kit

32. Control Firefighter Forcible Entry Firefighter Attack Firefighter Attack Firefighter

33. Clears Standpipe • Makes Hose Connection • Monitors Hose Pressure • Checks Condition of Fire Floor, Stairwell Notes On Hose Pressures 3 lengths of 2 ½” hose 70 PSI with water flowing 4 lengths of 2 ½” hose 80 PSI with water flowing Control Firefighter

35. Gain Entry To Unit On Fire • Assist Entry Team With Advancing Hose Line • Monitor Hallway Conditions Suggested Tools To Bring Set Of Irons Rabbit Tool Thermal Imager Forcible Entry Firefighter

36. Can stretch hose wet or dry, depending on conditions • Remember basic fire attack guidelines Attack Firefighters

37. ladder co. Operations

38. Tower Ladder Placement • Life factor • Fire condition location and extent • Type Of occupancy • Type of structure • street conditions • location of pumper and hydrants • Condition and stability of bldg • ground stability

39. 15 degrees Scrub Area 2531 30-35 feet

40. V. Vent E. Enter Search S.

41. Vent Vertical Ventilation Protect Stairwell

42. Enter Overhaul Fire Extension

43. Search Search Just Inside Window Check Floor Stability

45. The End! The End! The End! The End! The End! The End!