Fire Engineering Training Community
High-Rise Fire Group
So many cities have High-Rise structures and the tactics used by various departments varies as much as the cities themselves. The group is designed to allow Metro-City and Big-City firefighters discuss this challenging aspect of our jobs.
Martijn Boeijink
In the netherlands we have allmost allways scissor stairways in high rise buildings.
If a operation is started from the stairways with an 2"hose and the door is open how are you shore that none of the evacuees is becoming in the same stairways, and use the orther stairways?
In the netherlands we don`t use evacuation with an elevator
As prevention systems whe nowe pressure stairways all stairways can stand 60 minutes of fire and we work 2 layers below the firelayer.
I hope everyone can read my english.
With Kind regards,
Martijn
Jan 2, 2009
Michael Emillio
Hello from Oklahoma City. A Chief of mine started this group, and he would be good to comment here, but I'll see if I can beat him to the punch.
Our department's high rise policy states that a reconnaisance/search group will go as high as 5 floors above the fire floor to aid in evacuation (certainly more if conditions warrant it). Also, our lobby control is dedicated to the task of giving instructions about evacuation over the loud speakers if there are any. I know that you will hear from others shortly.
By the way, your English is very good.
Chief Walker, are we going to "script" the language for lobby control so that all those put in charge of such an important task are giving approved messages? It seems easy enough to put together a template which would make instructing sometimes panicky civilians easier for a guy like me.
May 4, 2009