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