Transcript What to do in case of fire

Fire Safety
in Burnside Hall
Aline Fontaine, Fire Prevention Officer
Facilities Management, McGill University
(514) 398-3664
[email protected]
We’ll talk about
• Building evacuation procedure
• Fire Protection Equipment
Evacuation of Buildings
How does one do it?
1. Communicate the urgency to people.
2. Direct people towards the nearest safe exit.
3. Direct people to a specific meeting place outside
and away from the building.
4. Provide information requested by Security or the
Fire Department about the incident and give
details about people needing assistance in the
building.
1. Communicate the urgency
• Use the nearest manual pull
station to signal an emergency.
When the alarm is sounding
• Direct people to move towards the
emergency exit quickly.
2. The nearest safe exit?
Know your exits:
• Review the posted evacuation plans
• Physically locate your fire exits
• Make sure they can be accessed
(locked door, furniture or other obstruction)
At the time of an emergency, is the exit safe
for evacuation?
Make sure there is no smoke or hot gases in the
staircase, then proceed.
3. Leaving the building
Send everyone immediately to a location away
from the building, to a predetermined
meeting site, so that you may:
• Keep people safe
• Prevent the crowd from obstructing
Firemen and Security operations
• Prevent the crowd from returning to the
building before authorized
4. Assisting authorities
Provide information about :
• location or cause of the event
• injured people, if any
• people requiring assistance on the
floors
• people refusing to evacuate
Identification of
evacuation team members
We ask that the evacuation team members
be identified by the orange vest:
• Evacuees know they need to follow
your instructions. (it really helps!)
• Security and the fire department will
know you may provide them with
information about the emergency and
that you are there to help.
Evacuation teams in Burnside
Building Emergency Warden
• Proceed to a designated area clear of the Bldg and
receive updates from monitors and provide this
information to emergency response personnel.
• Give the “all clear’’ to the evacuees once approved
by the Fire Chief
.
Evacuation teams in Burnside
Monitors
• Perform a tour of your floor instructing people to
evacuate via the nearest exit
• Verify that your assigned exit is usable and direct
people toward it in a calm and orderly fashion..
• Provide aid to those so requiring, ex. with
disabilities
• Leave via the designated evacuation route to
perform your duties outside
• Report to the Bldg Emergency Warden
Burnside Hall
FDA: Meeting site for basement exit
Lower field:
General Meeting site
Evacuation teams in Burnside
Evacuation team once outside the building
• Basement monitors: move through tunnels to
adjacent buildings and to the court yard exit to
keep people from re-entering.
• First floor monitors: move to entrances and
basement exits onto the terrace, to keep people
from re-entering. As people leave they will repeat
to them in a loud voice to move to lower field
Basement monitors
X
2 Basement Monitors in
Macdonald Stewart to prevent
people from entering Burnside
through the North side tunnel
doors.
X
Exits
2 Basement Monitors in
outside, at the yard exit.
2 Basement Monitors in
Maass to prevent people
from entering the Maass
X tunnel
Ground and 2nd floor monitors
X
X
X
X
X
Others
X
X
To Lower field
X
X : 1st and 2nd floor monitors
X
X
X
X
X
X
Evacuation teams in Burnside
Evacuation team once outside the building (cont.)
Other floor monitors:
• assist or replace first floor monitors (if they are
missing or obviously need help). Assist in moving
the crowd away as people leave the building.
• keep people away from the terrace and building
until the Evacuation Team Warden or Security tells
them they may re-enter the premises.
Evacuation teams in Burnside
Procedure for people with disabilities
• A monitor or volunteer should remain with a
mobility impaired person, close to the emergency
exit
• Make sure someone advises the Bldg Emergency
Warden or Security, which will in turn advise the
Fire Chief
• Firemen will evacuate these people if there is a
need to do so.
For all emergencies,Call 911
and Campus Security 398-3000
When you have evacuated to a safe location,
please make the call.
Do not attempt to interrupt the alarms on your
panel. You should not touch this
equipment.
The fire alarm system is connected to ADT
who will automatically call the Fire
Department.
Fire Protection Equipment
In Burnside Bldg we have:
• A fire alarm system
• Standpipe and hose system
• Portable fire extinguishers
• Sprinkler protection in the basement only
Should we try to extinguish a
fire with one of these units:
When you or someone else has pulled a manual station
1. Determine the classes of fire implicated
(A, B, C, D and/or K)
2. Verify that your extinguisher is suitable
(pictograms and classes of fire on each label)
3. Use the extinguisher thinking of “PASS”
(Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep)
Class of fire
Class A : Ordinary combustibles
Class B : Flammable Liquids
Class C : Electrical Equipment
Class K : Commercial cooking oil
Class D : Metals
How to use
portable fire extinguishers.
• 1
Pull the pin (braking the tamper seal)
• 2 Aim the nozzle at the base of the fire
• 3 Squeeze or press the handle
• 4 Sweep from side to side at the base of
the fire until it goes out. Watch for reflash
and reactivate extinguisher if necessary.
1. Pull the pin
• Hold the extinguisher
below the gage.
• If you turn the pin the
plastic seal will break.
• Pull out the safety pin
2. Aim the nozzle
at the base of the fire
• Release the nozzle and
hose from it’s clamp
(some extinguishers
are not provided with
hoses).
• Aim the nozzle
carefully near the base
of the fire.
3. Squeeze the handle
4. Sweep at the
base of the
fire
Do not fight the fire if
• It could cut off your exit
• There is too much smoke to attempt it
• The fire appears to be too large to handle
with one extinguisher
• You feel in danger
If the fire spreads or grows Leave immediately
If your extinguisher is emptyLeave immediately
• Do not look for another extinguisher.
Shut the door and evacuate the building.
Inform Security and the Fire Department
of the situation when they get on site.
Your Fire Prevention Officer
Aline Fontaine FPO
James Ferrier Building
840 Dr Penfield, suite 408
Montréal, QC H3A 1A4
Tel: (514) 398-3664 or 398-5144
Email: [email protected]