my name's brett sheridan i'm with the fire city down on fire department and we're out of the i'm out of the station at waverly and thirty socket outside there i'll introduce should my partners that are also working today at the fire station there and we've got anthony on the right and kevin on the left we are the people that would be the first ones responding to your building if there was a merge and see fire emergency medical emergency natural disaster any type of call we're not when one gets called where you need some help it's going to be us three initially also working today we have three firefighters downtown at our college park station in addition to that we have twenty five paid on call firefighters that carry their pagers depending on the nature of the call you are going to get any combination of those resources that respond to the building here most of the calls for medical emergencies you're going to get to your to get to firefighters and then you're also to get the ambulance we get a lot of questions about why does a fire department in and the ambulance i just wanted to go to the hospital well the reason is we're right here we're always in the city we can respond and be here fast our ambulance company is also very good they respond fast a lot of times they can get here the same time as we do but there's other times because they respond to a greater area outside the city where they're not here first and it may take them several more minutes to respond so we're all license and we can come here do a lot of things medically to help a situation until the ambulance gets here and in fact we can help the paramedics and oftentimes do even ride in with them to the hospital in the ambulance and help got two two trucks that we use that we respond your building with today since we have three people working at our station which will have about twenty percent of the time if it's a medical call we're going to try to bring our smaller light truck and that's going to be a top hole that's parked outside if our staffing only allows us to have two people one duty which is about eighty percent of the time at the station then that's why we bring a fire truck because we have to be ready to go to any call anywhere in the city at any time whether it's a medical or a fire so we get that a question question a lot of it's a valid question why are they driving this big fire truck to come to my medical call in the city here we get about two hundred calls a year where we're getting two calls for the fire department at the same time so there's multiple calls going on almost every day that we're responding to whether we're getting called twice or us and the other station are getting called and that's going to come into play when i talk here about some of the stuff a little later i like to start out with talking about what we do here in this building if there's a fire and if there's fire alarm we want to treat every fire alarm as if it's a real fire if the fire alarm goes off in the building we want everyone that can to get out of the building we do know w is elevator during fires the smoke in the end or the heat if there was a fire can kid unscrew an elevator up and possibly make an elevator stop while someone's in there and then be trapped that's our worst nightmare if there is a fire alarm that goes off we want you to leave your apartment make sure the doors close behind you that's also key if there's a fire in your building let's talk about those doors real quick what do those doors do to all your apartments whether you like it or whether you don't they automatically close right that's required by the fire code that those doors self close the reason for that is the try to keep the fire in the small gif there would be a fire in your apartment in that area and it's not going to affect everyone else as bad in this building we are fully sprinklers so you have a sprinklers inside every room inside the a and even have them outside on your on your porches so this building is one of the most protected buildings along with your sister apartment at six thirty hastings with the exterior sprinklers use are very safe in this building a fire can still happen with that set in the sprinkler systems what gets most people in a fire it's not the heat in the flames but what is fire give off that hurts more people than those smoke we have smoke and we can have fires where the sprinkler system is going to keep the fire from getting bigger but it's not going to put it all the way out in the small can build that's one worth talking about fire alarms and fires and getting out i want you to think more about the small converses the flames and how that's going to affect you so we have a fire we have a fire alarm we we leave our apartment and we go to the nearest exit i want to go outside if we can then we want people to come to the front of the building now i'm going to talk about a couple things here because we have all a lot of situations where there's a lot of people that can go up and down three flights of stairs if you can't do that then that's fine and we want you to go to your exit and get in the stairwell if you can get in the stairwell on the other side of the door that goes into the stairwell we've bought everyone two additional hours all those stairwells are fire rated to be enclosed and separated from the rest of the building where it could burn for two hours and keep you safe inside that area now we can have a fire in this building for two hours very likely that we're not those things are over engineered over designed for for your safety so if you can get to the exit but you can't get down just get into that that stairwell area now if you leave your room and there is a lot of smoke and there is a lot of heat but you still you can still feel that you can leave and we also have what's called cross or a horizontal evacuation what happens in the hallways when the alarms go off for those of you that have been here a while an experience that what happens in the halls the doors close in the hallway every every so often there's at least two breaks where there's doors in the hallway that automatically close those are fired and small doors as well so if you come in your hallway and there's smoke but you can see on the other side of the fire doors that are in the hallway that of closer isn't smoke go through those doors and get on that side that some small a little smokes going to come through but that's going to keep you safe and if you can't get to the stairwell keep walking down your hallway away from where the danger is into the other end of the building each set of doors you go through buys you two more hours so it's going to be pretty hard for me to walk down the stairwell with this right but can i get through some of those doors and get away from the flames and the smoke that make sense ok so you have your exits and you have cross or horizontal evacuation the get away from the smoke now let's cover the situation where you for whatever reason the fire alarm goes off and you can't leave your building whether you can't leave it maybe you felt the door and it's hot or you open the door and there's just too much smoke here it's not safe for me to leave what do i do or the other thing that comes up is there physically no way when i open that door and i see what's going on that i feel i can i can leave because i don't think you know i'm going to be able to get to that exit i can't walk fast enough you could be just getting over the flu and you're weak and you're sick and there's no way that that's going to happen if that's the case then we want you not to leave leave your apartment stay in your apartment and go to your window and go to your door your slider door those doors we always want to leave those so they can be accessible and used don't store things up against them don't put shelley in their t v s those type of things you want to leave that door so it can be used for you to get out or for us to get in if you this time of year if if you can't go to your window and standers or stay at your window if if it's it's you're still not feeling safe there then you can go out on that  balcony for sure if it is a fire or there's a there's a media threat to you they go out to that balcony and then we'll be able to see you talking about bow conies let's go back to the people that live on the first floor where you're quickest exit out of your house it's not a stairwell it's not down the hallway where is it it's right out the side it's right out the side door so the things i was just talking about earlier apply largely to the second and third floor even more so than the first if you can get out to that balcony or get by that window then we're going to be able to see you and will come up and get you or we may tell you to stay there by us getting that fire to keep you safer than us trying to bring you down a ladder for we don't have to but see here once we're outside the fire alarms going off do we want you to come back in the building until we give the all clear or the alarms turned off correct once you get out you stay it you we want you to stay out now that's part of the reason to the people that can we want you to come around towards the front of the building if you can get down your stairways and we're dealing with a lot of this bad weather and you've done that that's ok to stay in that area is well i don't want to try to ask people that have walkers or have ca that take a day like today and try to walk all the way around the building the go to the front we understand that will and one of the things that we do very quickly is there will try to do after we make sure that there is no emergency is get people back inside even if an issue we have to bring you back in the here or release city or apartments if we've got a central spot where we can help get the word out to get everyone back in as soon as we can that is something that is high in our purdie list you know and we talked about having the fire in your apartment what do you do with the door if there's a fire near parma and you have to leave you close the door that's why that door closes automatically to help with that you want to make sure that doors close by doing that we're keeping the shoe in the box we're keeping that fire we're keeping that smoke as much as we can in that one room and keep our hallways hallway safe now if you burn food if you've been cooking and you've burned some toast do you cook something in your microwave you burned it and the smoke detector in your apartment went off but the one in but the whole building's not going off yet which door do you want to open the ventilate the one into the hallway or the one to the outside the outside door if you've just burnt some food please don't open your door to your hallway to air out that smoke because the whole building doesn't start alarming intil that smoke gets into the hallway smoke detector so if you know there's no fire keep the door closed open the door to the outside air that out it'll keep the whole building from going off and we all will have we won't have a fire alarms as often that's part of the reason to why why the system is set up that way otherwise we'd be getting fire alarms every other day and before you know it no one's paying attention to him and then they don't treat him seriously if you if there is that fire and you close that door and got out if that smoke detector may not going off what's it important for you to do once you've left you may be the only one that knows about the fire i'm looking for a pull cord of station here in the hallways or there's a pole stations the red little boxes on the wall that you can pull if there's a fire there's a fire in your apartment or you fight a fire somewhere else in the building pull one of those that's going to set the alarm off the other thing you can do is call nine one one but your number one priority in a fire is to pull that pull that cord and then if you can call nine one one the call the nine one one helps do many things besides just say there's a fire alarm you can give us a lot more information so we can more quickly get to right where the emergency truly is this is a big building if you're in your apartment and the fire alarm goes off or even if there is a fire do we want you to pull your burger to pull cord no only pull that for medical emergencies even if you're in your apartment and you feel you can't get out if there's a fire we're going to come get you if we have people pulling all these medical emergency cords our nine eleven operators going to call us back and say there's a potential medical emergency in here so i'm going to have to divert people away from where the fire is to go check on these people to see if there really is a medical emergency if there is a fire we will come get you and the way we operate is we're going to go right to the area where the fire is and we start our search of mediately on either side and above the fire  then work out word from there so for now to you right away it's not that we're not common it's we're prioritize and the areas that need to be cleared that is closest to the danger everyone understand ok  now let's talk about those emergency pull cord some more here and this is where i'll come back to tying in those two hundred fifty to two hundred calls a year that we get at the same time button does anyone have one of those we can so there's people that have those those are good to have especially if you feel that you're at risk or just stay extra safe you've always got that there are a few fallen down where there is not a pull cord you can hit that button to help keep you safe and that's going to get us coming there's also the pull cords that are in the where they are out there in the bathrooms and in the bedrooms correct and there's one in the living room here to some of the common bathrooms may have them you find them in different places hospitals have them all over the place to these things are all great but that's only paints part of the picture for  as firefighters as paramedics or for the police for that matter as well by pulling that cord is what happens is or pressing that button if you're wearing one that call goes to a private call center somewhere there's different companies that that monitor those that alarm then the person at that company then has to call nine one one in ottawa county and tell them that they have an alarm and where it is then the nine one one operator has to get a hold of us via the radio so we can respond now all sings have to happen that takes two to three minutes to happen but how far away am i two or three minutes right if you have the ability to call nine one one that is still the best because in two or that two or three minutes now i'm already here and i'm not just here not knowing what's going on i'm here knowing exactly what is wrong versus a medical arm went off to go to a room x y z now i know go to room two twenty five someone's having a heart attack there's people doing c p r and now i also know i need more than just two people and i can call extra resources and get them coming not have them here ten ten minutes or more later because is all that happened was pull pull cord definitely use your pull cords definitely use your push buttons but also called nine one one if you can or if you're the person that is there helping someone else with their problem you call nine one one for them don't worry about what to say than i'm on operator will help will help direct you that also goes if it's a false alarm let's say the grandkids pull the alarm or you're moving some furniture and it gets bumped as soon as that gets bumped please call nine one one and tell them give them your name tell them where you live tell them what happened is what that will do that will slow us down so we're not coming in as fast is what it also does is it helps divert us to those other calls that we have going on if there is another emergency that's more important so we can help someone else faster so any questions on the urgency pull cords or the or the buttons fire several other type of things that could go wrong we're all protected i'm prepared for those but the thing i'm worried about the most from the most people getting hurt at one time here is going to be from a weather event and that tornado or it's high winds the biggest sin we're worried about with tornadoes and high winds we are worried about the whole building coming down but the bigger concern we have about that is stuff breaking and flying is this going to be a good room to gather in if there's a tornado you know why what's going to hurt you when we get tornadoes and we get big winds of first thing that happens is all the glass breaks out that blows in things start flying around the room and that's the biggest risk for you getting hurt in a tornado or wind event so we don't want people to gather in common into she said it we don't we don't have a basement to go into here were more than just four or five people i don't want everyone gathering in one spot for heaven forbid the roof does come down i don't want fifty people in one room i want you people to either stay in your rooms or if you feel you need your more safe going with someone else in their apartment go ahead and do that if you do want to come down here to the first floor then you have other rooms to go into those are bathrooms and other grooms with doors that are unlocked that don't have windows so everyone has a bathroom in their own apartment or their or their neighbor's apartment and that's where we want you to go if there's a tornado or if there are strong winds you know when it's intimate that there is going to be a problem if there's watches out for the weather the best thing you can do is stay tuned your radio if you have a weather radio that's good or watch the t v and then use your own gut judgment the sirens that go off in the city may or may not happen it just depends you know how quick see event coming did we even know about it a lot of times these things happen and there's not even time for us to react and sound the sirens the other thing about the sirens are those are meant for people that are outside it they're not a lot of times they do a good job of penetrating inside but you can expect to hear the sirens if you're inside a building but if those sirens are going off that's when we want you to listen to that radio listen to that t v that's going to tell you what's happening but your first reaction should be if you're hearing those sirens and you know the weather's not good to be fine that room that's away from the windows any questions on that everything we talked about to the with the residents applies to the staff if the staff a of times will respond to those poll cords or to that fire alarm we want you all to have your phones and to be on that one one to help let us know what's going on particularly with the medical reasons and the fire alarms where is it at what's the type of situation that we have so you know this all the stuff applies to everyone not just residents or not just staff so now i'll take any questions anyone has or has no stupid questions or if you've got a comment or concern that you want to share please feel free to do so i just that's a good point there's other rooms without windows that i didn't mention the laundry rooms thank you door we got we have a good question i was up here say in the best way to get out of here on the ground floor is a go read out your door on the balcony she has a very good point what's happening today we've got a lot of snow piling up in at times that may not be a possibility if that's the case and you can get out then go out to your exit if you can't get out your your door into the hallway and go to the nearest exit then make sure that door's closed in the hallway and just go by the that window as close as you can and get the curtains out of the way you can even feel free to wave something in just be in by the window will will be check in real close to the apartments to see if people are there that's a good question the staff here does clear all the exits that are so that lead out to the road and down the sidewalks and down the parking lots but we're going to have the same thing they can't be here twenty four hours a day and it is going to be a challenge so if you get down there you open that exit door and there's snow there if you can't get out there then that's fine just stay in that inside that stairwell remember we have that to our separation  is this building secure for an earthquake this it shook my house to where i was the all these buildings that are built are built to the code and inspected so i'm not aware of anywhere in michigan where we have to build things the higher level from earthquakes than like what they do out in california or some of those areas like that so i don't i did not think there was any special precautions nor nor should there have been to this building besides the building codes and this building i know was inspected i was part of that team and everything in this place is built to code so  and i can comment on that from the fire protection side too we had some issues with those dock detectors and things going off and off and off your staff years worked hard to try to get that fixed and they've done a good job now can we still have other things come up shirt when you have a building that's protected as good as this one all this stuff so what tronic so you are going to that's the that's a trade off you're going to have an issue once once in a while more t the downside of technology i guess you got a call here let's say we got ok so you guys heard that call come across right you heard all those things that the nine one one operator said they're going to leave and go on that call that's the type of information we like to get i know i got three or four calls i know i've got at least one person with a head injury a lot of times we get a call someone just drives by on their cell phone and they just say oh i saw a car off in the dead so this is go help us how we're going to respond to that call that same type of thing happens with the pole cord or you call and i want to report the medical does that make sense so and we had an example of it there perfect ok next stay in your room that door's got a fire rating sprinkler systems are going to work we're going to be here in two or three minutes and even if we're not coming right to you when you feel you're in danger remember we're going to where we know the dangers the worst and then working out we're so good question and well you saw how many people we have we have respond right away so we get an alarm the first say we're in do is go try to find out where that alarm is you did the right thing you got out you got to that stairwell but you couldn't get down the stairwell and there you sit there and wait and wait and wait we're not trying to do that on purpose but you also have to understand that we're trying to get get the if there is a problem resolve that is quick as possible and that's to take precedent over is as long as i've done my job here today to get you in that safe area that's the number one goal we do care we want to get there and tell you what's going on or where to go next but we always don't have the people enough people there right away to do that quickly does that make sense and that could work good for that building i don't want to teach everyone in this building the go to one spot in that everyone's going to teach you where to go down because that fire could could happen in that area where you were always told to go walk oh well it could be a real fire right and i don't want to real fire to happen luckily that fire didn't happen in the way that they always told you to go but if it would of and no you didn't go to the nearest exit because you went to the spot where they always go every time that's what that's what i'm worried about for this particular building so i'm i guess i need to apologize in advance we may not be there right away to tell you what's happening and you could be in that corridor for ten or fifteen minutes waiting while we're dealing with what the emergency is all the stairwells are fireproof they all have a two hour reading to  and if if there's any danger near that the closest stairwell once you've got those hallways cleared out then those are the stairwells that we're going to go to first so you know we've got a a medical call coming across let's listen to this call right now we're in that situation where we have to call that one time going on in the in the siddur her so you can see the importance of no matter what kind of emergency you have is for us to know i here where i have one person needs help and i get another call where i've got four or five that have major injuries which call my going to go to first we're going to get to all of them we're going to go this fast as we can that's where that all comes in the play know all your smoke detectors are hard wired i would have to check to see if the battery backup cinema or not it depends on the code of the staff say yes they do so that that smoke detector is going to let you know when that batteries going dead or any smoke detector they'll start chirping every once in a while they're not just going to unless something's wrong with it they're not supposed to just start sounding on their own they're supposed to start chirping so if you're starting to hear a chirping noise over once a while with your smoke detector that's saying hey i'm better and i need to be changed and i i don't have to defer to the staff on the on the replacement schedule or when you replace them or or we don't talk to the maintenance guy on the right so in and he's not here right now but but the key to remember is if that if that thing is chirpy to make noise other areas any other questions you even told the people not to send anyone out because i'm not hurt and they still sun someone and that happens but that can slow us down or re prioritize us you know it's one of those technology things shit to good question is she had a machine that malfunctioned i came on the call and a seppi pole and she had never hit the button it was it's a newer machine too right so there is some bugs in it and it's we're going to get that once in a while when we understand that and that's you know we don't charge anyone for any of our services so don't worry about that  station or we may not be there and also if there was an alarm coming across nine one's going to know about it before we will so they can intercept that  thank you guys for coming out putting up with me here i'm going to stick around a little bit so if anyone has any more questions of the more than happy to answer