RESIDENTS TRAPPED.
IN DOCUMENTS
GINA:
JOE, THE MINUTE BY MINUTE
INCIDENT REPORT
REVEALS JUST HOW MASSIVE THE
OPERATION
AND COORDINATION HAD TO BE TO
TACKLE THE
DEADLY FIRE, WHO WAS THERE AND
WHAT THEY
FILE FIREFIGHTERS QUESTIONING
WHETHER
THEY WERE AT MORE RISK AS A
RESULT.
2:17 p.m. Last friday it starts,
high priority structure fire,
marco polo high rise. Always
investigating has combed
through the "incident detail
report" and it shows a quickly
below as Occupants dozens of
floors above are trapped
and with elevators out of
service
and a may day response as a
firefighter is lost in the thick
unidentified but who came
forward with concerns about
you don't step up and you don't
resources -- both human and
technical at the scene.
the Assistant Fire Chief of Fire
Operations -- the F3 on
this dispatch log -- and the
mobile command center --
FIREFIGHTER-"the mobile command
center, which didn't
come at the same time that the
fire 3 didn't show up, it's
designed to take the command
team out of the
example of a situation, it
islandwide. One fire
commissioner grilled the chief
about this at yesterday's
commission meeting.
take over or i want to take over
so that discussion occurs
battalion level, or why the MCC
didn't get sent, saying
it's all part of the ongoing
after-action review.
FIREFIGHTER-our guys did a great
job, our firefighters
great job. could they have been
more successful with a
management team that was more
experienced? i would
information. In fact they head
to the scene already reading a
computerized "pre-plan" on file
preplan, updated just last fall,
sprinklers
Strong cross-ventilation down
hallways
Limited visibility
handicapped
if not contained quickly"
residents above fire floor."
would have helped even more as
the scene unfolded.
FIREFIGHTER-"where they're at,
have medical problems?"
medical problems then and
potentially the future are also
MAX HANNEMANN, FIRE
COMMISSIONER-"one of the
safety concerns also: Asbestos.
Were you guys able
to determine that during the
alarm?"
"there's a million other things
and toxic fumes that we're
COMMISSIONER-if it was
asbestos in terms of the turn
outs when you go in the bldg
MANUEL NEVES, HONOLULU FIRE
CHIEF-
decontamination resources should
have been made
available on the day on the
scene?"
FIREFIGHTER-"I believe
management would have
No specific direction, nothing
from the command to say
an obvious warning about
potential asbestos exposure.
Marco Polo fire inspection
reports and found:
it had been inspected in 2011,
2014 and twice last year
-- once in june, again october
when one of the standpipes
hfd told me:
THERE ARE MANY STEPS TO WAIT OUT
UNTIL THE
DEPARTMENTS FINAL REPORT WILL BE
MADE
PUBLIC. THEY HAVE TO DO WHAT'S
CALLED A POST-
INCIDENT ANALYSIS WHICH JUST
STARTED WITH A
FOR THE RESULTS.