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Promotional Scenario #1
Battalion Chief Oral
Confined Space Rescue
You respond with 2 engine companies and one ladder company to a rescue from a confined space. Information from Fire Dispatch indicates that a worker has fallen ill while working in a below grade storage vault at a water treatment plant.
As the first arriving fire officer, what are your initial actions?
References: FCHB 6th Edition Chapter 18
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Answer Key, Battalion Chief Confined Space rescue.
- Establish, name and locate the Command Post
- Establish a designated Staging area for incoming and requested units
- Meet and interview individuals on the scene to gather information
- Obtain the confined space Job entry permit
- Obtain MSDS for facility
- Obtain information regarding the number of victims
- Obtain information regarding their location
- Obtain information regarding their age, sex, and general health
- Obtain information regarding what they were doing in the space
- Obtain information about what protective clothing they were wearing
- Obtain information regarding any lock-out, tag-out program in place.
- Determine the number of potential entry points
- Identify any potential or known hazards through air monitoring, utility control, fluid/product control, etc.
- Determine if the situation is a potential rescue or a body recovery
- Develop a plan for rescue or recovery
- Request a 2nd. alarm assignment for support operations
- Request and assign a Safety officer
- Request EMS
- Request and assign a Rehab officer
- Request a Rescue company
- Request a Hazardous Material for possible victim decon
- Ensure appropriate equipment is deployed, ie. Lighting, ventilation, rescue harness and removal equipment, etc…
- Request an Air Cascade Unit
- Request a Rapid Intervention Company
- Request and assign a Accountability Officer
- Request and assign a Rehab Officer
- Establish an exclusion zone and remove all non-essential personnel
- Assign a Rescue Group to remove the victim(s)
- Assign a medical group to establish treatment for the victim(s)
- Assign an Air Manager
- Establish an Operational Zone for primary and back up entry operations
- Establish an Equipment pool
- Begin, support and monitor the operation………………….
- Rehab Members as necessary
- OTHER ACCEPTABLE RESPONSES:
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