SALVAGE AND OVERHAUL

VALUE OF LOSS CONTROL (SALVAGE & OVERHAUL

OPERATIONS) • Adds value to the department’s services • Promotes fire fighting as a craft • Builds goodwill within the community • Receives praise and recognition in the

media • Gives firefighters a feeling of

accomplishment • Leads to better morale and efficiency

among firefighters

PURPOSE OF SALVAGE

• To reduce damage from fire, smoke, water, heat, cold, or weather during and after a fire

PURPOSES OF OVERHAUL

• To search out and extinguish hidden fires

• To protect the scene after the fire

• To preserve evidence of the fire’s origin and cause

• To restore premises to safe condition

SALVAGE PLANNING

• Salvage SOPs

• Special preplans for buildings with high-value contents

• Awareness of contents vital to businesses in commercial occupancies

• Working with loss control representatives of local businesses

SALVAGE PROCEDURES

• When to begin salvage operations

• Coordinating salvage with fire attack

• How to arrange and protect building contents

• Commercial occupancy challenges

• Removing large quantities of water

COORDINATING FIRE ATTACK & SALVAGE

COORDINATING FIRE ATTACK & SALVAGE

COORDINATING FIRE ATTACK & SALVAGE

HOW TO ARRANGE & PROTECT BUILDING CONTENTS • Gathering in close piles in center of room

• Placing high objects at ends of piles and using rolled rugs as ridgepoles

• Placing small objects (pictures, curtains, lamps) on larger objects such as couches or beds

• Using water-resistant materials to raise furniture off wet floors

COMMERCIAL OCCUPANCY CHALLENGES

• Ceiling-to-floor Display Shelves

• Contents Stacked too Close to Ceiling

• Unpalleted Storage High-piled Stock

WAYS OF REMOVING LARGE QUANTITIES OF WATER • Cleaning clogged drains

• Removing toilet fixtures

• Creating scuppers

• Using existing sanitary piping systems

• Affixing chutes

SALVAGE COVER CHARACTERISTICS

• May be canvas, vinyl, or disposable plastic

• Has reinforced corners and hems

• Has grommets in hem edges

• Is difficult to adapt plastic covers to traditional salvage cover folds

SALVAGE EQUIPMENT ON APPARATUS

SALVAGE EQUIPMENT ON APPARATUS

LOCATION OF SALVAGE EQUIPMENT ON APPARATUS

• Always locate in one area on apparatus to eliminate the need to search the apparatus for equipment

• Store smaller tools and equipment on apparatus in a specially designated salvage tool box or other container to make them easy to carry

TYPICAL SALVAGE EQUIPMENT

• Automatic sprinkler kit • Carryall • Floor runner • Dewatering device

• Water vacuum • Squeegee • Mop and wringer

bucket

FOLDS & ROLLS

• One-Person Roll

• Two-Person Fold

• Accordion Fold

• One-Person Double Roll

• One-Person Fold

MAINTAINING SALVAGE COVERS

• Inspecting

• Cleaning

• Drying/hanging

• Repairing

INSPECTING & CLEANING SALVAGE COVERS

ROUTING WATER

DEFINITION OF OVERHAUL

• The practice of searching a fire scene to detect hidden fires or sparks that may rekindle and to identify the possible point of origin and cause of fire

TOOLS & EQUIPMENT USED IN OVERHAUL

• Battery-powered saws, drills, and screwdrivers

• Carryalls, buckets, and tubs

• Shovels, bale hooks, and pitchforks

• Electronic sensors • Pike poles • Plaster hooks • Axes

OVERHAUL SAFETY GUIDELINES & PROCEDURES

• Make sure that your very first overhaul step is determining the condition of the building

• Wear proper protective clothing, including positive-pressure SCBA

• Wear eye protection when it is safe to remove breathing apparatus

• Use 1½-inch or 1¾-inch charged attack lines for extinguishing hidden fires

OVERHAUL SAFETY GUIDELINES & PROCEDURES

• Extinguish small hidden fires during minor overhaul operations with air-pressurized water extinguishers or booster lines, backed up by at least one attack line

• Avoid additional water damage

AVOIDING ADDITIONAL WATER DAMAGE

• Place nozzle in such a way that if it is accidentally opened it will cause no additional water damage

• Tighten or repair leaking couplings

• Use a 100-foot length of hose as the first section on attack lines

PRIMARY FACTORS AFFECTING BUILDING CONDITION

• Fire Intensity

• Amount of Water Used

INDICATORS OF HIDDEN FIRES

– Sight– Discoloration of

materials – Peeling paint – Smoke emissions from

cracks – Cracked plaster – Rippled wallpaper – Burned areas

• Touch — Feel walls and floors for heat with the back of the hand – Sound – Popping or cracking of

fire burning

– Hissing of steam

USING AN ELECTRONIC SENSOR

CHECKING FOR & EXTINGUISHING FIRE EXTENSION

– If floor beams are burned at their ends where they enter a party wall—

– Flush with water – Check far side of wall and extinguish as

necessary – Remove, check, and extinguish insulation

materials – If fire has burned around doors and windows,

open door and window casings and extinguish fires

CHECKING FOR & EXTINGUISHING FIRE EXTENSION

• If fire has burned around a combustible roof or cornice, open the cornice and inspect for hidden fires

• If sensory or electronic sensor indicates, remove materials and extinguish hidden fires in concealed spaces below floors, above ceilings, or within walls

PULLING A CEILING

• • Wear full protective clothing

• and eye protection• • Wear SCBA for

overhaul• • Stand between area

being • pulled and doorway• • Pull down and away

from • yourself

REMOVING DEBRIS & WATER

– Use carryalls (debris bags) to remove debris – To catch falling debris – To provide a water basin for immersing small

burning objects

Use water vacuums, scoops, shovels, mop wringers and buckets, submersible pumps to remove water

CARRYALL

PRACTICAL EXERCISEGroup 1 :

- Correctly Fold Salvage Cover

- Correctly Stack furniture

- Correctly Cover furniture

Equipment:

- 5 pieces of furniture

- 1 salvage cover

Group 2 :

- Correctly construct a water chute

- Correctly employ a water chute

Equipment:

- 1 salvage cover

- 5 pike poles

- 4 ladders

Time Limit: 5 minutes

Group 3 :

- Correctly construct a catch all

- Correctly employ a catch all in conjunction with the water chute

Equipment:

- 2 salvage cover

- 4 pike poles

Time Limit: 5 minutes