Doylestown Fire Company

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Doylestown Fire Company
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Basics Review
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Station 19 Apparatus

• Engine 19
• Engine 19-1
• Rescue 19
• Utility 19
• Canteen 19
• Engine 19-3

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Station 19 Apparatus
Engine 19-1
Engine 19
Engine 19-3
Rescue 19
Utility 19
Canteen 19
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Station 19General Response

• Locals
• E19, E19-1, R-19
• Alarms, Auto, Wires Outside, Brush, Gas Leak,
  Standby
• Rescue
• R-19, E19, E19-1
• Tactical / Box
• E19, E19-1, R-19
• Dwelling, Wires-in, Fumes-in, Hazmat, Store,
• Building, School, Nursing Home, etc.

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Station 79 Apparatus

• Ladder 79
• Engine 79
• Engine 79-2
• Field 79
• Utility 79
• Hazmat / Decon 79
• Light Trailer
• Fire Prevention Trailer
• Fox Trailer

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Station 79 Apparatus
Ladder 79
Engine 79
Field 79
Engine 79-2
Utility 79
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Station 79General Response

• Locals
• E-79, E79-2
• Residential Alarms, Auto, Wires Outside, Gas
  Leak, Standby
• Local Brush
• F-79, E79, E79-2
• Local Alarm Commercial
• L-79, E79, E79-2
• Tactical / Box
• L-79, E79, E79-2
• Dwelling, Wires-in, Fumes-in, Hazmat, Store,
• Building, School, Nursing Home, etc.

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Fire-Ground Operations

• Who is in Charge?
• Radio Procedures
• North Band
• Local / Direct
• Admin / Direct
• Accountability Tags
• Why 3?
• The Media

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Portable Radio

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Evacuation Tone

• What will you hear ?
• Solid tone on pager
• Air-horns are going to blow continuously
• What to do?
• Safely evacuate building immediately
• Leave hose line
• Go to the truck you came on

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Engine CompanyResponsibilities

• Fire Suppression
• Search and Rescue
• Forcible Entry
• Ventilation
• Control Utilities

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Humat Operation

• Connection
• Large T handle toward hydrant
• Use knee in the 5 connection to hold in place
  while connecting
• Operation
• Make sure gate is closed if not boosting hydrant
• Push button in to release the gate lever
• Direction of Flow
• Always make sure painted side of humat
  points toward fire

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Orientation on Hose line

• Male end of hose is longer side of coupling
• Follow the longer side to the outside

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Ladder / Rescue Company Responsibilities
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• Ladder the Building
• Forcible Entry
• Irons, Rabbit-tool, Saw, Ram, Spreader
• Search and Rescue
• Lights, Rope, Radio, Can
• Ventilation
• Irons, Pike-poles, Hooks, Saw,
• Control Utilities Gas Electric
• Tool Box
• (wrench, cutters, gloves, meter cover)

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Ladder Company Duties
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• Interior Team
• Officer, Irons, Can, Camera
• Primary search and rescue
• Locate seat of the fire
• Exterior Team
• Driver, OVM, Roof, Fill in
• Exterior Rescue
• Ladder the building
• Exterior Ventilation
• Utility Control
• gas / electric
• NO METER PULLS !!!!

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Setting up a Ground Ladder
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• Rescue
• Set at the base of the window opening
• Egress
• Set 2-3 rungs through window opening
• Ventilation
• Set upwind and above the outside edge
  of the wind

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Rescue Company Fire Ground Responsibilities
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• Forcible Entry
• Irons, Rabbit-tool, Saw, Ram, Spreader
• Search and Rescue
• Lights, Rope, Radio, Can, TIC
• Ventilation
• Irons, Pike-poles, Hooks, Saw,
• Control Utilities Gas Electric
• Tool Box
• (wrench, cutters, gloves, meter cover)
• Air Cascade

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Rescue Company Fire
Ground Duties
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• Interior Team
• Officer, Irons, Can, Camera
• Primary search and rescue
• Locate seat of the fire
• Exterior Team
• Driver, OVM, Roof, Fill in
• Exterior Rescue
• Ladder the building
• Exterior Ventilation
• Utility Control
• gas / electric
• NO METER PULLS !!!!

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Rescue Box (Auto Extrication)Rescue Company
Responsibilities

• Extrication
• Cutters, Spreaders, Rams, Saws, Air Bags
• Stabilization
• Cribbing, high-lift jacks, junkyard dogs, 4x4s
• Scene Lighting
• Hazard Control
• Oil Dry
• Tool Box
• Battery Disconnect
• Cutters, wrench
• First Aid
• Run Bag, Neck Kit, Oxygen Bag
• Fire Suppression
• ABC Extinguishers

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Doylestown Fire Company uses 3 types of metering
equipment

• Industrial Scientific 4 Channel Meter
• MSA Pulsar CO meter
• TIF combustible gas leak meter

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Industrial Scientific 4 Channel Meter

• Monitors
• Carbon Monoxide (CO)
• Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
• Lower explosive limit (LEL)
• Oxygen (O2)
• Alarm levels
• CO 35 ppm
• H2S 10 ppm
• LEL 10
• O2
• 19 lower level
• 23 high level

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Industrial Scientific 4 Channel Meter
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Industrial Scientific 4 Channel Meter
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TIF combustible gas leak meter

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Electric Stick / Hot Stick

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MSA 4000 Thermal Imaging Camera