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Transcript of 1 Fire in elderly home in Melle, Belgium - 6 th of august 2009 10 th E Φ A ROUNDTABLE Lt.-col. ir....
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Fire in elderly home in Melle, Belgium - 6th of august 2009
10th EΦA ROUNDTABLE
Lt.-col. ir. Christian Van De VoordeChief Fire officer
Fire Brigade Ghent
03/06/2010
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TIME - HISTORY
• 19:54 Emergency call
• 19:57 Contact call centre – Fire Brigade Melle
• 20:02 Departure Fire Brigade Melle
+ demand reinforcement Fire Brigade Ghent
• 20:03 Fire Brigade Melle arrives
• 20:11 Fire Brigade Ghent arrives
• 20:20 Fire under control
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TIME - HISTORY
9 CASUALTIES
5 SERIOUSLY INJURED
2 EMERGENCY MEMBERS INJURED
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35A
31B
kerk-melle
RINGVAART
Ovenveldstraat
Moerrede
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SCHELDE
OUDE SCHELDE
0 400 800 1.200 1.600 2.000200Meters
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Fire Brigade
Ghent
Fire BrigadeM
elle
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DAMAGE
Only the room where the fire started has completely burned out
Other rooms in the compartment only smoke damage
HOME DESCRIPTION
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HOME DESCRIPTION
− Modern building (1998)
− Renovation 2008
− Conform fire safety legislation
− Each room door Rf ½ h
− Detection in each room (not imposed)
− Fire compartmentation of stair cases (doors Rf½h
+ automatically closing doors by detection )
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
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HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
− Residents in bed (± 19:50)
− Hot summer evening
− All room doors open
− Fire in room next to central staircase (ventilator, TV?)
− Resident in room on fire, leaves room without
closing door
− Detection closing Rf doors – staircase
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HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
− Very fast dispersion of smoke in gangway and other
rooms
− Due to heat and smoke it was impossible for staff to
enter compartiment
− When the Fire Brigades arrived they could only
recover the casualties.
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LESSONS LEARNED
− Legislation (1974) not up to date
− Decoration of the rooms
− Curtains : value of flame retardant treatment?
− Mattress : incombustible instead of flame retardant?
− Obligation for a flat TV-screen? (implosion, decoration)
− Trust property has brought in
− By detection automatically closing room doors?
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LESSONS LEARNED
− Sprinkling?
− Not enough staff at night (2/100 is imposed)
− Knowledge and training of internal emergency plan
− First actions of staff are crucial
− Closing doors
− Use of means of first intervention
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DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY FIRE BRIGADE
− Smoke evacuation nearly impossible because of
external sunscreen
− Doorway too narrow for bed
− Patient + mattres too heavy
− Safety bars on bed
− Mattres has no grips
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QUESTIONS ?