Fire Safety and Emergency Services Training at IIBS Bangalore

Posted by Prof. Prakash A On 15/02/2019 06:04:12

An insight of the three days Fire Safety & Emergency Services as Faculty Development Program  for IIBS faculty members at RA Mundkur Fire & Emergency Services Academy, Karnataka State Fire Safety & Emergency Services, Government of Karnataka State  Bangalore from 11th to 13th Feb 2019.

Day One Training on 11th Feb 2019 started with the Fire safety department officers shared their knowledge and imparted training on Fire Safety & Emergencies.

Objective of Fire Safety & Emergency:

Preparedness to take to care of natural disasters /?accidental disasters

  • To save life and property of people from fire & other emergencies.
  • To Emergency & First Aid
  • To search and rescue from manmade and natural disasters
  • To render advice on fire protection, fire prevention, emergency evacuation, mock drills as Capacity Building

The three days course is to impart training i?n basic fire prevention, fire fighting, rescue operations, evacuation drills etc. The Karnataka State Fire Safety & Emergency Services department training program addressing the issues of fire, rescue and emergency responses at grass root level through program SAFE – “Students Association for Fire Education”, designed keeping in mind younger generation and student community. ??

What is Triangle of Fire?

 

 

 

The triangle explains the three elements a fire needs to ignite:

  • Heat
  • Fuel, and
  • An oxidizing agent (usually oxygen).

A fire naturally occurs when the elements are present and combined in the right mixture; A fire can be prevented or extinguished by removing any one of the elements in the fire triangle.  For example, covering a fire with a blanket removes the oxygen part of the triangle and can extinguish a fire.  In large fires, where fire fighters are called in, decreasing the amount of oxygen is not usually an option because there is no effective way to make that happen in a large area like public places viz.  Offices, commercial building, schools, colleges, hospitals, factories, and such others.

Methods of Fire Fighting

  1. Cooling such as starvation, segregation and separation of elements of Fire triangle
  2. Blanketing or smothering i.e. Restricting, over powering the fire

Media of Fire Fighting

  • Water
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Sand
  • Foam
  • Dry chemical products such as
    • Potassium Dry Carbonate,
    • Sodium Bicarbonate

Note that one litre of water produces 4000 kilo calories of air coolant media. A calorie or calorie is a unit of energy. Is defined as the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere.

Classification of Fires and media to douse the fire, Based on intensity of fire, its classified as:

  • Class A fire: (High intensity fire) Combustible items like cloth, paper, furniture,  etc.,  which become ashes.  Use Water to control & douse the fire
  • Class B fire: (Combustible Flammable fire) Use Foam to control & douse the fire
  • Class C fire: (Gas fires) LPG, Petroleum products, CNG, Electrical fires, etc. Use Carbon Dioxide (CO2)  to control & douse the fire
  • Class D fire: (Metals fires) Use Dry Chemicals like potassium dry carbonate, sodium bicarbonate to control & douse the fire

Common Fire Extinguisher is ABC mono phosphate – fire extinguisher type 13865. Above information would help us to take precautions to avoid spreading of fire and to douse the fire

Day two Training on 12th Feb 2019 covered the Building Norms as specified by NBC (National Building Code). All commercial buildings, Educational buildings should have:

  • Two  doors of 6 feet width doors – Entry and Exit doors.
  • Two Staircases
  • Six metres corridors around the building
  • Eight passengers (min) capacity Lift
  • For electrical room use CO2  (Carbon Dioxide)  fire extinguishers
  • Check the working of Electrical safety -   CO2 fire extinguishers regularly
  • Check & keep the “Assembly Points” clean & tidy
  • Storage of paper, cloth, etc., needs to be in an easily accessible place
  • Check & keep the “Exit routes” clean & tidy
  • Use the stair case in case of emergency – practice to use left side of stair case while going down

Session on LPG Fire Safety:  Incase of LPG fire carry out following:

  • Pour water on LPG cylinder to keep the cylinder cold so that cylinder would not become hot and blast – note that the LPG inside the cylinder is cold.
  • Keep windows and doors open
  • Keep mobile phones OFF and do not operate mobiles
  • Every night keep the cylinder’s Regulator OFF
  • Change the LPG Rubber Pipe once in two years

The Fire Safety  Brigade demonstrated the fire drill along with the newly recruited Fire Safety officers

Day three Training on 13th Feb 2019 covered Fire Safety & Emergency in Schools, Colleges and Hospitals. 

  1. Practice the use of Portable Fire Extinguishers
  2. Display “Sign Boards” at all vantage points including near lifts, entry and exit doors
  3. Fire plan should be present
  4. Have Fire safety drill teams, Rescue Teams, and First Aid teams

Evacuation in case of Emergency :

  • Signal Fire alarm “ON”
  • Call State Fire Safety Service by dialling 101  or 108
  • Provide name, proper address and landline phone number and also provide location details
  • Use proper, appropriate fire extinguishers to prevent spreading of fire till the state fire safety brigade / personnel arrive to your location of fire emergency
  • Use stair cases to evacuate the people out of the buildings - use left side of stair case while going down
  • Use blanketing, roll the people who have caught by the fire,  move them to safer place
  • Use clean, normal water to reduce heat and burning of the body.

Later the demonstration of Different types of  Fire Safety vehicles at the workshop including the Breathing Apparatus Van.   Karnataka State Fire Safety & Emergency Services  is first in India to procure the latest  Breathing Apparatus Van

14th April is observed as Fire Safety Personnel Martyrs Day

The Fire Safety Academy has a place of  Fire Safety Memorial. During post lunch session, the demonstration was carried out at “Fire Station”  of RA Mundkur Fire & Emergency Services Academy. 

 

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