Strategy and Tactics Answers

 

Occupancy:

Commercial Warehouse
Construction:
One story 200' X 200'
Ordinary 
Fire Location:
1st floor, spreading to exposure #2 


Challenge Answers


1. First attack hose line 2 1/2" operate into fire store exposure 2 side.
2. Second attack hose line 2 1/2" backs up first line.Third line to front of building for possible supply of tower ladder.
3. Ground ladder to front of building exposure #2 ; second ladder exposure #4 . 
4. Primary ventilation roof skylights, cut vent opening in roof;vent windows front and rear.
5. Aerial ladder (tower ladder) positioned and supplied to cover front of building (near exposure 2 side)for possible future use of aerial master stream.
6. Primary life hazard warehouse personnel and firefighters.
7. Interior fire spread: warehouse content burning throughout entire 200'x 200' open floor.
8. Exterior fire spread: Check for presence of a cellar and possible origin of fire, also check rear of building and exposure # 4.
9. Collapse hazard: open web bar joist roof;parapet wall,roof steel beam collapse and,roof machinery. 
10. Worse case scenario: explosion of content;open bar joist roof collapse, parapet wall failure,fire started in cellar.

Note#1: FDNY Fireground designation system (clockwise) 1. is the street 2. is the left side
( as you face the front of the building) 3. is the rear. 4. is the right side.

Note #2: FDNY "Fire Building" designation system for row store/dwellings
Occupancies to the left of fire occupancy: Exposure #2; #2A; #2B; etc.
Occupancies to the right of fire occupancy: Exposure #4; #4A; #4B; etc.

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