The Development of FIRSTVISION

Expected Firefighter Interaction with the FIRSTVISION

5.3 Expected Firefighter Interaction with the FIRSTVISION

FIRSTVISION supports tasks that help Firefighters determine whether a fire is occurring. To illustrate how FIRSTVISION helps the Firefighter, example emergency situations, "Fire Scene 1" and "Fire Scene 2", provide a fire scene scenario and a description of the how Firefighters might use FIRSTVISION in that fire scene emergency.

5.3.1 Example Emergency Situations

Fire Scene 1

A fire has started in a second floor office near the front (above the lobby) of a building with a two- level roof. That is, part of the building has three floors above ground and the other part only two. The office that contains the fire is directly under the roof on the shorter side of the building. The building roof is reinforced with high-tension steel cable.

The Fire Department arrives at the building in less than five minutes after the department receives the alarm. Possible Firefighter responses to this fire scene are described in the following information.

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1.

The enclosure unlocks and the touch screen displays the floor on which the alarm

 

 

activated.

 

 

 

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2.

The Incident Commander enters the building at the main entrance, goes to FIRSTVISION

 

 

and opens the enclosure to view the screen.

 

 

 

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3.

The Commander:

 

 

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Verifies that the address is for the building that sent the alarm. (as shown in the

 

 

 

example in Figure 5.1)

 

 

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Sees the floors where the detector activations have occurred.

 

 

 

 

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Figure 5.1 Fire Scene Scenario Floor Plan Information

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