Monthly Archives: October 2008
Using ArcGIS for Pre-Incident Planning
The KFD uses ArcGIS 9.2 to create their pre-incident plans. Pre-incident plans are documents that contain diagrams of buildings and features that could be hazardous to fire fighters and civilians. Most fire departments create there pre-incident plans using a CAD … Continue reading
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Using a GPS to Collect Information
With the advent of GPS and other locating devices, firefighters have taken an active roll in mapping information. However when the data is collected it tends to come in a variety of “inconsistent” forms. While it is great that firefighter … Continue reading
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Identifying Safety Hazards on a Preplan
One of the things that is often lacking in preplans is identifying safety hazards. There are ways to show hazards to both firefighters and civilians on the preplan diagram. A proposal for showing safety hazards is to use a consistent … Continue reading
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Standpipe Identification
One challenges that firefighter sometimes face is identifying which fire department connection is available. In many cases fire department connections may be buried in bushes, mislabeled, or in disrepair. Another challenge may also telling apart which FDC is a standpipe … Continue reading
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