2-Story

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2-Story L Shaped Strip Mall Fire

• August 11, 2009
• 0515 hrs.

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1st TRUCK
ADDL TRUCK
ADDL TRUCK
ADDL TRUCK
1st ENG
2nd TRUCK
2nd TRUCK
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Fire Information

• Fire started in restaurant on 1st Floor
• Rear of restaurant was open to roof above a drop
  ceiling
• 2nd Floor occupancies affected were Drug
  Treatment Clinic and Massage Therapy Spa
• 2 civilians found sleeping on 2nd floor
• No injuries reported

• Lightweight building construction
• The roof was constructed using open web trusses
  two feet on center with long spans
• During firefighting operations portions of the
  roof collapsed as well as parts of the second
  floor

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Forcible Entry
PhotoHarry Garvin
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Forcible Entry
Glass intact
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Forcible Entry Talking Points

• What tools to bring as an Inside Person at this
  fire?
• Methods of making entry into involved units?
• Importance of opening rear doors as a second
  means of egress
• Methods of making entry into uninvolved units?
• Does a door lock or a sheet of tempered glass
  cost more?

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Fire Attack
FIRE UNIT
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Fire Attack Talking Points

• Line selection
• Methods of getting lines aloft
• Checking for fire above drop ceiling
• Recognizing lightweight construction and its
  hazards
• What are floor joists constructed of?
• What are the hazards?
• What does back up fire attack mean?
• What does assist with fire attack mean?

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Ventilation of Lightweight Roofs

• From Roof Cutting Operations and Firefighter
  Safety Letter to All Members from BES (8/2/07)
• Lightweight Roofs- Members shall never conduct
  ventilation operations directly over a working
  fire on a lightweight roof. Members should
  employ the practice of trading space for time so
  that they may complete their roof-cutting
  operation prior to the fire impinging on their
  ventilation hole.
• Refer to Book 29 for characteristics, strengths,
  and hazards of open web trusses

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Ventilation(pic taken after bulk of fire knocked
down)
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Ventilation
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Ventilation
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Ventilation
Failed Trusses
PhotoHarry Garvin
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Ventilation Talking Points

• Aerial Spotting on strip malls
• Lightweight Construction characteristics and ID
• Truck Co. SOGs on Lightweight roofs
• Space for Time
• Working towards your ladder
• Communication absolutely necessary between 2nd
  Truck Co. and 1st Truck Co.

• Do we pull fire, paint lines, etc. on
  Lightweight roofs?
• LCES during ventilation
• Differences between lightweight roof types
• Difference between roof division and
  ventilation group
• What do you do as a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Truck Co.?
• Ladders, ladders, ladders

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Ventilation
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Laddering
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LaddersCan you ever have too many?
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Lightweight Construction

• Building was of block construction
• Roof was lightweight open-web trusses
• Catastrophic failure of roof occurred
• 2nd Story floor joists were constructed with
  lightweight materials
• 2nd Floor occupancies floor joists failed
• Ventilation allowed Fire Attack team to recognize
  failing floor on 2nd story
• Fire Attack team felt as if sliding on
  linoleum.

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Lightweight Construction
PhotoHarry Garvin
PhotoHarry Garvin
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Lightweight Construction
PhotoHarry Garvin
PhotoHarry Garvin
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On the Fireground