Order Description:
Read the scenario below. Using the information you have learned in this unit, answer the questions provided. Your response to each question should be at least 25 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your responses. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; Paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Ahners Street:
Alarm Information:
A fire has been reported in a section of the city where there are many large homes built around the year 2000. Some are occupied by one family, while others are multiple family dwellings, some illegally converted. These illegal occupancies consist mainly of illegal basement or attic apartments or both. Additional information from dispatch reports the fire at 213 Ahners Street.
Construction and Layout:
Ahners Street is a large, 2 ½ story, wood frame dwelling. There is a steeply peaked asphalt shingle roof, and the third floor attic area is built out with dormers and windows on each side. The building is 25 feet wide and 50 feet deep. There are no fire escapes on the building. There are small casement windows located on sides B, C, and D at the basement level. Access to the basement is via a door off the kitchen and through a set of double Bilco doors at the rear of the building. There is also a rear door leading into the residence, which accesses the kitchen, and a set of narrow rear stairs that lead to the upper floors. There is a porch at the first floor level that is covered, but open. Covering the porch is a small roof that is as wide as the building. There is a car in the driveway.
Area and Street Conditions:
Ahners Street is a one-lane, one-way street running from west to east. River Street runs parallel and in the same direction as Ahners Street. Broad Street is a two-lane, two-way street. Elm Street is also a one-lane, one-way street running from north to south.
Time and Weather:
At the time of arrival, 0555 hours, the temperature is 36° F with a 20mph wind.
Exposures:
The exposures on the right and left (sides B and D, respectively) are similar structures and are separated from the fire building by 10 foot driveways.
Arrival Conditions:
Heavy black smoke is issuing from the second floor windows on aide A. Fire and smoke are venting from a second floor window on the D side. There is also smoke showing from the window at the third floor attic. A woman is screaming hysterically from a window on the third floor. Smoke is also pouring out of the window.
Response:
You are the first to arrive as captain to Engine 1 and will be in charge of this fire until the arrival of the battalion chief, whose estimated time of arrival is unknown, as dispatch cannot raise him over the radio. You have two engines and a ladder company responding. Three firefighters and an officer staff each piece of apparatus.
Question 1-What would be the most significant fire spread factor at this fire?
Question 2-What would be the most significant exposure?
Question 3-What are your orders for the captain of Engine 2?
Question 4-How would you order the victim at the window removed?
Question 5-What are your orders for the crew of Engine 1?
Question 6-How would you transmit your preliminary size-up report?
Question 7-The victim has been removed. Regarding primary search and rescue, what orders would you give the captain of Ladder 1?
Question 8-What is the best hydrant given the fire location and direction of travel? Your department SOP is to perform a reverse lay.