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Mapping of Areas Presenting Specific Risks to Firefighters Due to Buried Technical Networks

Mapping of Areas Presenting Specific Risks to Firefighters Due to Buried Technical Networks

Amélie Grangeat, Stéphane Raclot, Floriane Brill, Emmanuel Lapebie
Copyright: © 2016 |Volume: 8 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 13
ISSN: 1937-9390|EISSN: 1937-9420|EISBN13: 9781466690509|DOI: 10.4018/IJISCRAM.2016070104
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Grangeat, Amélie, et al. "Mapping of Areas Presenting Specific Risks to Firefighters Due to Buried Technical Networks." IJISCRAM vol.8, no.3 2016: pp.51-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISCRAM.2016070104

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Grangeat, A., Raclot, S., Brill, F., & Lapebie, E. (2016). Mapping of Areas Presenting Specific Risks to Firefighters Due to Buried Technical Networks. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), 8(3), 51-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISCRAM.2016070104

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Grangeat, Amélie, et al. "Mapping of Areas Presenting Specific Risks to Firefighters Due to Buried Technical Networks," International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) 8, no.3: 51-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJISCRAM.2016070104

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Abstract

Vehicles or freight cars on fire below a bridge or inside a tunnel are exceptional events and imply difficult intervention conditions for firefighters. A buried technical network like high voltage electricity line, gas or steam pipeline around such a fire causes additional specifics risks. Vulnerability areas for firefighters are zones where both factors exist: a difficult incident area together with a specific risk like buried networks. They require intervention teams with specific emergency response capabilities. The paper proposes a method developed for the Paris Fire Brigade for vulnerability mapping. Results aim at improving the mobilization in allocating directly the specific responses capabilities intervention teams. Results are debated from an operational point of view. Cutting off several network lines during firefighters' interventions may strongly affect the society. In case of simultaneous incidents in vulnerable areas, firefighters could be an early warning system and inform authorities of the risk of services disruption.

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