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Good Evening Team,
I was wondering if you often encounter BLEVE's and what your SOP is to manage? Do you engage the vessel and try to isolate? or is it insant evacuation for fire crews? or is this purely a call that the officer will make once on scene? In Australia we have loads of propane tanks ranging from (converted) 20 pounds up to 100 pounds which are portable, then we also have gas bullet which are stationary and would be 1000s of pounds based on American measurements.
Generally we evacuate and don't try to engage. if it's a bullet we may send someone in if we catch it early to turn on fixed water monitors if installed (for a gas bullet). Gas fire isolation marches are taught, but are rare over here.
Would love to hear how you guys manage these scenes.
Cheers
Pic of some rookies just starting out doing some basic gas Isoation drills. this is being conducted on a large Iron ore mine in outback Australia. You can see the Iron Ore processing facility in the background. The photo doesn't show it very well but that dirt is most certainly red!!!
I was wondering if you often encounter BLEVE's and what your SOP is to manage? Do you engage the vessel and try to isolate? or is it insant evacuation for fire crews? or is this purely a call that the officer will make once on scene? In Australia we have loads of propane tanks ranging from (converted) 20 pounds up to 100 pounds which are portable, then we also have gas bullet which are stationary and would be 1000s of pounds based on American measurements.
Generally we evacuate and don't try to engage. if it's a bullet we may send someone in if we catch it early to turn on fixed water monitors if installed (for a gas bullet). Gas fire isolation marches are taught, but are rare over here.
Would love to hear how you guys manage these scenes.
Cheers
Pic of some rookies just starting out doing some basic gas Isoation drills. this is being conducted on a large Iron ore mine in outback Australia. You can see the Iron Ore processing facility in the background. The photo doesn't show it very well but that dirt is most certainly red!!!