Fire Safety in Burnside Hall

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Fire Safety in Burnside Hall

• Céline Pothier, Fire Prevention Officer
• Facilities Management, McGill University
• [phone]
• celine.pothier_at_mcgill.ca

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Well talk about

• Building evacuation procedure
• Fire Protection Equipment

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Evacuation of Buildings

• How does one do it?
• Communicate the urgency to people.
• Direct people towards the nearest safe exit.
• Direct people to a specific meeting place outside
  and away from the building.
• Provide information requested by Security or the
  Fire Department about the incident and give
  details about people needing assistance in the
  building.

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1. Communicate the urgency

• Use the nearest manual pull
• station to signal an emergency.
• When the alarm is sounding
• Direct people to move towards the emergency exit
  quickly.

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2. The nearest safe exit?

• Know your exits
• Review the posted evacuation plans
• Physically locate your fire exits
• Make sure they can be accessed
• (locked door, furniture or other obstruction)
• At the time of an emergency, is the exit safe for
  evacuation?
• Make sure there is no smoke or hot gases in the
  staircase, then proceed.

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3. Leaving the building

• Send everyone immediately to a location away from
  the building, to a predetermined meeting site, so
  that you may
• Keep people safe
• Prevent the crowd from obstructing Firemen and
  Security operations
• Prevent the crowd from returning to the building
  before authorized

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4. Assisting authorities

• Provide information about
• location or cause of the event
• injured people, if any
• people requiring assistance on the floors
• people refusing to evacuate

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Identification of evacuation team members

• We ask that the evacuation team members be
  identified by the orange vest
• Evacuees know they need to follow your
  instructions. (it really helps!)
• Security and the fire department will know you
  may provide them with information about the
  emergency and that you are there to help.

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Evacuation teams in Burnside

• Building Emergency Warden
• Proceed to a designated area clear of the Bldg
  and receive updates from monitors and provide
  this information to emergency response personnel.
• Give the all clear to the evacuees once
  approved by the Fire Chief
• .

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Evacuation teams in Burnside

• Monitors
• Perform a tour of your floor instructing people
  to evacuate via the nearest exit
• Verify that your assigned exit is usable and
  direct people toward it in a calm and orderly
  fashion..
• Provide aid to those so requiring, ex. with
  disabilities
• Leave via the designated evacuation route to
  perform your duties outside
• Report to the Bldg Emergency Warden

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Burnside Hall
FDA Meeting site for basement exit
Lower field General Meeting site
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Evacuation teams in Burnside

• Evacuation team once outside the building
• Basement monitors move through tunnels to
  adjacent buildings and to the court yard exit to
  keep people from re-entering.
• First floor monitors move to entrances and
  basement exits onto the terrace, to keep people
  from re-entering. As people leave they will
  repeat to them in a loud voice to move to lower
  field

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Basement monitors
2 Basement Monitors in Macdonald Stewart to
prevent people from entering Burnside through the
North side tunnel doors.
X
X
Exits
2 Basement Monitors in outside, at the yard exit.
2 Basement Monitors in Maass to prevent people
from entering the Maass tunnel
X
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Ground and 2nd floor monitors
X
X
X
X 1st and 2nd floor monitors
X
X
Others
X
X
X
X
X
To Lower field
X
X
X
X
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Evacuation teams in Burnside

• Evacuation team once outside the building (cont.)
• Other floor monitors
• assist or replace first floor monitors (if they
  are missing or obviously need help). Assist in
  moving the crowd away as people leave the
  building.
• keep people away from the terrace and building
  until the Evacuation Team Warden or Security
  tells them they may re-enter the premises.

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Evacuation teams in Burnside

• Procedure for people with disabilities
• A monitor or volunteer should remain with a
  mobility impaired person, close to the emergency
  exit
• Make sure someone advises the Bldg Emergency
  Warden or Security, which will in turn advise the
  Fire Chief
• Firemen will evacuate these people if there is a
  need to do so.

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For all emergencies,Call 911 and Campus
Security 398-3000

• When you have evacuated to a safe location,
  please make the call.
• Do not attempt to interrupt the alarms on your
  panel. You should not touch this equipment.
• The fire alarm system is connected to ADT who
  will automatically call the Fire Department.

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Fire Protection Equipment

• In Burnside Bldg we have
• A fire alarm system
• Standpipe and hose system
• Portable fire extinguishers
• Sprinkler protection in the basement only

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Should we try to extinguish a fire with one of
these units

• When you or someone else has pulled a manual
  station
• Determine the classes of fire implicated
• (A, B, C, D and/or K)
• Verify that your extinguisher is suitable
  (pictograms and classes of fire on each label)
• Use the extinguisher thinking of PASS
• (Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep)

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Class of fire

• Class A Ordinary combustibles
• Class B Flammable Liquids
• Class C Electrical Equipment
• Class K Commercial cooking oil
• Class D Metals

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How to use portable fire extinguishers.

• 1 Pull the pin (breaking the tamper seal)
• 2 Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire
• 3 Squeeze or press the handle
• 4 Sweep from side to side at the base of the
  fire until it goes out. Watch for reflash and
  reactivate extinguisher if necessary.

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1. Pull the pin

• Hold the extinguisher below the gauge.
• If you turn the pin the plastic seal will break.
• Pull out the safety pin

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2. Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire

• Release the nozzle and hose from its clamp (some
  extinguishers are not provided with hoses).
• Aim the nozzle carefully near the base of the
  fire.

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3. Squeeze the handle

• 4. Sweep at the base of the fire

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Do not fight the fire if

• It could cut off your exit
• There is too much smoke to attempt it
• The fire appears to be too large to handle with
  one extinguisher
• You feel in danger

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• If the fire spreads or grows -
• Leave immediately
• If your extinguisher is empty-
• Leave immediately
• Do not look for another extinguisher. Shut the
  door and evacuate the building. Inform Security
  and the Fire Department of the situation when
  they get on site.

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Your Fire Prevention Officer

• Céline Pothier
• Fire Prevention Officer
• 3610 McTavish, suite 3rd floor
• Montréal, QC H3A 1Y2
• Tel [phone]
• Email celine.pothier_at_mcgill.ca