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6739264:
MFS: *CFSRES INC69 12/03/08 17:18,RESPOND COMMERCIAL FIRE,13 IDIOT ST,YOUR TOWN MAP 69 F 16 TG182,,BRIGADE A, BRIGADE B

You and next closest brigade are responded to the above page. Upon receipt of futher information from MFS they notify you that there is a report of a fire in bank of industrial dying machines at a local laundromat.

Your brigade has a Type 2 Medium Pumper and a 34P. Your nearest other brigade has a 24P - They are a 10 minute drive away.

Regardless of what appliances you take, you have only 3 CABA operators in your initial response, with 2 others coming to the station 10 - 15 minutes later.

The incident is a 1-2 minute drive away from the station.

Upon arrival you have a two story building in a row of shops. The building appears to be of brick construction with an iron roof.

There is small amount of light grey smoke gently wafting out of the doorway and an obvious small of burning. The owner of the laundromat is outside, but speaks little english and is VERY agitated.

The main area of the laundromat has washing bags strewn across the floor, with a bank of four industrial dyers opposite the door. There is a very obvious scorch mark leading upwards on the masonite from the back of one of the dryers. There is no obvious flame, but the room has a reasonable amount of smoke in it, and leading up the stairs at the rear of the room.

So, what appliances do you take, what information should you try to glean off the owner of the laundromat and what actions do you take at the incident and why?

bittenyakka:
ok so he is testing us to see if we obey 2 in 2 out  :-P

Um Does the owner tell us if there is anyone still inside? 
And i take it you mean buy initial response that between both brigades you only have 3 BA?

6739264:
They owner suggests that a family of perhaps 3-5 people may be upstairs.

There are 3 BA on YOUR brigades initial response, you don't know about the other brigade.

As far as 2 in 2 out goes, would you need it for a job like this? Would a job like this even warrant wearing CABA, let alone setting up ECO etc...?

bittenyakka:
assume i have taken the type 2

well as there is a confirmed something burning, poissible life threat, and high chance of th fire spreading into othr shops should it possibly be in walls roves etc and due to my lack of BA i will call a 2nd alarm.

Send 1 BA crew to inspect the dryer the effort in cleaning masks is not to much to avoid breathing in the smoke what smoke there is. Hopfully they can just empty a drychem into the dryer and it will all be over.

IF the fire has obviously spread into the wall cavity get that crew up stairs with HP line pronto and appropriate tools to inspect the wall. Aswell as look for other areas of fire spread.

I have based this theory on Fight the fire first as if i send crews upstairs looking for the people first they quiet possibly will have trouble if they discover the fire has growen in size downstairs.

6739264:
So you would be more than happy to request a 2nd alarm to the job, even though there is no visible fire, and only a reasonable amount of smoke hanging around the area?

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