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

3. What “high rise/multi story” concerns do we have in our city?
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. Sprinkler control valve
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. Missing Caps Defective Threads Debris Tight Caps Broken Clappers
Troubles With
Siamese Connections
Missing Caps
Defective Threads
Debris
Tight Caps
Broken Clappers

30. Remove All Firefighters
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. Notes On Hose Pressures
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. Suggested Tools To Bring
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!