Fire Attack PDF - Riverside Fire Authority

RIVERSIDE FIRE AUTHORITY FIELD OPERATING GUIDELINES FIRE ATTACK 7 CRITICAL FACTORS FOR FIRE ATTACK BUILDING FIRE...

RIVERSIDE FIRE AUTHORITY FIELD OPERATING GUIDELINES FIRE ATTACK 7 CRITICAL FACTORS FOR FIRE ATTACK BUILDING FIRE OCCUPANCY  Size  Size  Specific occupancy  Roof type and condition  Extent (% of structure involved)  Type-group (business,  Roof covering  Location mercantile, public assembly,  Interior arrangement/access  Stage institutional, residential,  Construction type  Direction of travel hazardous, industrial, storage,  Age  Time of involvement school, multi-family)  Condition  Type and amount of material  Value characteristics  Value involved associated with occupancy  Compartmentation/separation  Type and amount of material  Fire load  Vertical-horizontal openings, exposed  Status shafts, channels  Occupancy associated  Outside openings OTHER FACTORS/CONDITIONS characteristics/hazards  Utility characteristics  Time of day/night  Type of contents  Concealed spaces/attic  Day of week  Time--as it affects occupancy characteristics  Season use  Exterior access  Special hazards by virtue of  Loss Control  Effect the fire has had on the holidays structure  Weather  Time projection on continuing  Traffic conditions fire effect on building  Social conditions (strike, riot) LIFE HAZARD ARRANGEMENT RESOURCES  Number of occupants  Access, arrangement, and  Personnel and equipment on  Location of occupants (in distance of external exposure scene relation to the fire)  Combustibility of exposures  Personnel and equipment  Condition of occupants (by  Access, arrangement, and responding virtue of fire exposure) nature of internal exposures  Personnel and equipment  Incapacities of occupants  Severity and urgency of available in reserve or in  Commitment required for exposures (fire effect) Staging search and rescue  Value of exposures  Estimate of response time  Fire control required for search  Most dangerous direction-- additional resources and rescue avenue of spread  Condition of personnel  Needs for EMS  Time estimate of fire effect on  Capability and willingness of  Time estimate of fire effect on exposures (internal and personnel victims external)  Capability of Command  Exposure/Control of spectators  Obstructions to operations personnel  Hazards to fire personnel  Capability/limitations on  Availability of hydrants  Access rescue forces have to apparatus movement and use  Supplemental water sources victims  Adequacy of water supply  Characteristics of escape  Built-in private fire protection routes/avenues of escape  Outside agency resource and response time