1. Service Delivery 3
Ladders

2. Aims
To ensure students are familiar with the terminology associated with ladders and their safe usage.

3. Learning Outcomes At the end of the session students will be able to:
Recognise and use the standard terminology in relation to ladders
Describe the construction of a range of fire service ladders
State the varying uses of fire service ladders
Understand of the safety procedures to be adopted when using ladders.

4. Types of ladders in use Short extension ladder (JCDD 32)
10.5m ladder (JCDD 10)
13.5m ladder (JCDD 12)
Roof ladder (JCDD 31).

5. Types of ladders in use
All Humberside Fire Brigade ladders are of aluminium construction
Comply with Joint Council of Design and Development (JCDD) specifications
Regularly tested
For these reasons fire brigade personnel are instructed that they must not use ladders gained from other sources.

6. Terminology Extend - to raise an extending section
Extend to lower - to clear the pawls
Heel in / Heel out
House - to retract an extending section
Pitch - to erect a ladder against a building
Slip - to remove a ladder from an appliance.

7. Short extension ladder.

8. 10.5 metre ladder.

9. 13.5 metre ladder.

10. 13.5 metre ladder. Upper extension Middle extension Main extension
Handling poles
Screw down jack

11. Roof ladder.

12. Confirmation Assessments will be based on this lesson and the corresponding study note.
Learning Outcomes
Recognise and use the standard terminology in relation to ladders
Describe the construction of a range of fire service ladders
State the varying uses of fire service ladders
Understand of the safety procedures to be adopted when using ladders.

13. THE END