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HFD guidelines: II-05 High rise firefighting fully solved
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HFD guidelines: II-05 High risefirefighting fully solved
Access control: - correct answer ✔✔Duty of recording all members entering and exiting a building and
their locations while inside the building. This responsibility includes distribution of surveys, fire fighter
phones, splitting key sets and distributing keys to appropriate members going up.
Branch: - correct answer ✔✔That organizational level having functional/geographic responsibility for
major aspects of incident operations.
Crew staging: - correct answer ✔✔An area where crews are assigned in a high rise fire that serves as a
holding area for available crews awaiting an assignments, this is usually two floors below the fire.
Demobilization unit: - correct answer ✔✔Functional unit within planning section. Responsible for
assuring orderly, safe efficient demobilization of resources committed to the incident.
Division: - correct answer ✔✔The partition of the incident into geographical areas of operation.
Span of control - correct answer ✔✔Divisions are established when the number of resources exceeds
the manageable __________________________.
EMS group: - correct answer ✔✔Functional group established to meet needs of civilian casualties.
Fire attack group: - correct answer ✔✔Initially, a high rise group composed of first ladder, second and
third engines with ladder officer in charge, which will all proceed up to reported fire floor to investigate,
report conditions and take initial actions to mitigate the incident.
Fire floor division: - correct answer ✔✔Division responsible for all operational issues on a designated
floor of a high rise. Usually chief officer assigned to manage this division.
, Fire service mode Phase 1: - correct answer ✔✔Mode recalls elevators to designated recall point (doors
open and may stay open) and makes the elevators available for fire department use.
Fire service mode Phase 2: - correct answer ✔✔Mode allows for in-car operation of an elevator that
requires a key in car to permit control of that elevator.
Group: - correct answer ✔✔Established to divide the incident management structure into functional
areas of operation.
Groups - correct answer ✔✔________________ are composed of resources assembled to perform a
special function not necessarily within a single geographic area.
Lobby control unit: - correct answer ✔✔Is responsible for all lobby control functions: asses situation and
alarm panel, access control, accountability, control elevators, assimilate and pass on high rise survey
information to incoming crews and command. Initially in high rise this will be the first arriving engine.
Medical branch: - correct answer ✔✔Branch responsible for all on scene medical care. This will include
supervisor of the EMS group (for civilians) and the Rehab group (for care firefighters in rehab). HFD EMS
District chief will be in charge of this branch.
PRV/Pressure regulating valve: - correct answer ✔✔Valves and standpipe systems that are designed to
reduce outlet pressures for reduced nozzle pressures.
RAT/Rapid ascent teams: - correct answer ✔✔Crews from second and third ladder companies who
ensure that stairwells are cleared of all building occupants; all stairwell doors are unlocked and closed.
The roof hatch is unlocked but closed (to enable pressurization of the stairwell). RAT will inform IC which
stairwell has roof access for ventilation.
Rehab group: - correct answer ✔✔A functional group established to meet needs of firefighters in rehab.
Rescue group: - correct answer ✔✔A functional group established to meet operational needs of
searching and performing rescue. Group is assigned this responsibility for the entire incident.
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