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Small Boat and Marina Fires
Almost every area in the country will have a marina or some
body of water on which
pleasure craft pass. Fires on a pleasure craft, whether underway or in a marina,
will pose special challenges and hazards to the Land Based Firefighter. How
will you get to this boat on fire? Should you get to the boat on fire?
This seminar will view videos and examine case studies of
actual marina fires to determine what could have been done differently and what
tactics prove
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worthwhile. We will look at features found in all marinas which could either
help you or hurt you during a fire operation.
We will also look at individual boat fires both while the boat is underway and while at anchor. Next we will discuss the tactics needed to safely handle these incidents. Finally, you will get to see portable fire pumps and small Fireboats. We will discuss how they are equipped and operated.
Next apply some "hands on" experience as we walk
through a local marina. We will see the safety information and walk through
the pre-fire-plan information that had been brought out during the lecture segment.
And, we will see it at a marina you would respond to. Any training is better
when it is reinforced with a "hands-on" experience.
(Full
day) email
MarineFires@aol.com
Small
Fireboat Operations at Fires and Emergencies
This
seminar is designed to address some of the hazards and operating techniques
of handling a small fireboat responding to and operating at marine fires and
emergencies. We will also discuss some of the "tricks of the trade" that can
help you handle your fireboat in common tasks as well as in emergency situations.
This is NOT designed as a basic boating class and it would be expected that
anyone taking this seminar had already received some training in basic boating
or would have some previous boating experience.
Types of boats and hull configurations can
effect the operations of your boat.
Holding
your boat "on station" while pumping
from 200 to 5,000 gallons per minute can be very challenging as well as dangerous.
Operating your Fireboat near larger vessels requires knowledge and understanding
of what those ships can do. Towing a disabled boat may pose problems that you
never considered. How many lines (ropes) will be needed. You need some for docking
your own boat but what about towing, dive operations, and other emergency situations.
You may be responding to a fire on land in a remote area where your boat will
be the only water available. How will you get that water to land based units.
How about floating a supply line into the shore?
Your Fire Department has done the right thing
in providing a Fireboat. However, without the information on how to handle this
valuable tool, it can quickly become a danger to your Firefighters as well as
the
people
you are supposed to protect.. (e-mail
for details)
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--Every major port has a fleet of these important
workhorses of the sea bringing your lobster or scallops
for
dinner. These boats are out there most days catching fish. But they can
catch
something else. They can catch FIRE. If they are
at or near a dock when the fire starts, your land based fire department will
be called in. Do your members know the many dangers aboard these vessels? Will
this response be their first contact with this type of vessel? Are you aware
that the same stability problems which account for many crew fatalities at sea
will now be your problem? Are you ready? This presentation will also examine
a CO2 operation at past fire aboard a fish processing vessel that had no fixed
CO2 system! Full-day includes a hands-on visit to a commercial fishing boat
in your area
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right by ----> Kelly Fitzpatrick - Email
MarineFires@aol.com
Click here or on the photo on left to see photos and read details of a recent full-day "Commercial Fishing Boat Seminar".
Ship Collision and Fire
June
16, 1966 would be a day the New York City Fire Department's Marine Division
would never forget. The tanker Alva Cape, with 5,579,000 gallons of naphtha
aboard, collided with the tanker Texaco Massachusetts, which had just
unloaded her cargo of gasoline.
The
resulting explosion and fire would eventually snuff out the lives of 33 mariners
and injure 64 others. Dramatic photos combined with an informative lecture of
the fire and its aftermath are displayed in this multimedia presentation. Every
port and commercial waterway has some form of tanker from oceangoing tank ships
to fuel barges. Even tug boats carry as much as 100,000 gallons of fuel for
their own consumption. Combine this compelling presentation with the
Tanker
Familiarization presentation for a 2-3 hour mini seminar. Email
MarineFires@aol.com
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Dry Dock Fire
Fires involving ships in dry dock present the
fire service with an extremely difficult task. This ship is considered a "Dead
Ship" because it will have all of its systems non-operational. The vessels
own fire pumps operate by sucking water from under the ship but there will be
no water under this ship. Hopefully your Firefighters have already had our "Shipboard
Firefighting semimar, but this will be different. No ships water and no ships
power to operate watertight doors and ventalation.
This multimedia presentation uses color photos
of the March 20, 1998 fire in the bridge of the 300' research vessel "Ronald
H. Brown", that was undergoing
repairs
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City. It is presented along with an informative
lecture on the problems encountered.
Combine with any familiarization presentation
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The
motor vessel, The Spirit of New York is underway in New York's Hudson
River with 65 passengers. Fire is discovered in the galley area, which quickly
spreads to the engine room thereby disabling the ships power and ability to
maneuver. The vessel's Master has called for help and has dropped
anchor in midstream.
This was the scenario for an interagency drill in New York Harbor. Not everything went according to plan. But that's the purpose of having drills. I love when things go wrong at a drill because, Thats the time to learn!
How would you evacuate the passengers. Should
you evacuate the passengers. Who's in charge? And where can you find help. Here
we combine lecture, color photos and animation's to create an entertaining as
well as informative presentation. 3-hour mini-seminar.