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Policy for Dispatching Fire Departments to any "Structure insecurities/collapse"

By Tammie Conover posted 06-11-2015 13:27

  
Hello Fellow Members,

Recently we had an incident where a vacant residence had a "collapse" of a stairway leading to the basement. A neighbor called
to report it, (vacant home, no one there) the dispatcher sent police to check, who then called for Zoning/Inspections to address. The Fire Department was not sent, but would have been a reasonable call when you start thinking of all the "what if's" possible. Does anyone
have a SOG/SOP in place that would address this same issue? 
Thank you,

Tammie J. Conover

Director of Communications

Leads Agency Coordinator

Tazewell/Pekin Consolidated Communications Center

1130 Koch Street

Pekin,Il 61554

Ofc: 309.478.5410

Fax: 309.477.2302

 
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Brenda Argyle
06-17-2015 09:20

We use the Fire Priority Dispatch system which covers a building collapse. It is card 54 Confined Space/Structure Collapse. Our center has chose to use the nature of Fire Investigation when no one is trapped.