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Full Description
The long-awaited second edition of Elevator & Escalator Rescue: A Comprehensive Guide is written by firefighters for firefighters and contains important information for technical rescue members, training officers, and fire company members alike. This book details the risks involved in elevator and escalator rescues and how to face them successfully.
Key Features and Benefits:
A comprehensive guide for dealing with elevator and escalator emergencies, including a complete review and updating of all chapters.
Coverage spanning the evolution of elevators from their most primitive stages to include today's high-tech innovations, modular, wind turbine, pneumatic and destination control systems as well as STM suspension belts.
A new chapter (Chapter 35) containing information and the description about the Fire Service Access Elevator (FSAE). What they are, where will they be found, and building code changes that will help safeguard the firefighters using these elevators. This will include the use of a Narrative Sheet to ensure compliance with requirements.
A new chapter (Chapter 33) on the Occupant Evacuation Operation (OEO) and Occupant Evacuation Elevator (OEE) elevators. These systems are already in place in new design ultra high-rise buildings in the US. They will be used to evacuate the occupants in these buildings.
An updated elevator glossary of elevator and escalator terminology.
Chapter ending questions to test students' comprehension.
Contents
The history of elevators
Elevator system overview
Traction elevators
Types of doors, interlocks, and restrictors
Hallway and elevator lobby features
Car interior components and finish
Hydraulic elevator systems
Freight elevators and dumbwaiters
Newer technologies
Residential and special elevators
Elevator safety philosophy and rules
Rescue tools and equipment
Elevator hoistway door unlocking device keys
Poling guidelines
Car top and side emergency exits
Forcible entry: Types, use, and safety
Managing passenger entrapment incidents
Managing pinned-victim incidents
Managing fall-from-heights incidents
Managing elevator fires
Case studies and lessons learned
Automatic sprinkler systems and shunt trips
The firefighters' emergency operation key: FEO-K1
Use of elevators during a building fire
Training for safe and successful elevator rescue operations
Escalator development history
The escalator system
Escalator safety philosophy and rules
Escalator safety features
Escalator rescue tools and equipment
The A17 elevator task group study
Fire service access elevator (FSAE)
Occupant evacuation operation (OEO) and occupant evacuation elevators (OEE)
Final thoughts
Design guidelines for fire service access elevators (FSAE Guide)
Fire service elevator narrative
Sample standard operating guidelines
