SECURE Fire Department Equipment Checks

 

 

Daily Equipment Checks (03/2011)      

Daily Equipment Checks

Checked each day on all apparatus

  • Tank water level
  • Fuel                                             
  • Airpack checks
  • Gas monitors, TICs, and AEDs
  • Medical equipment
  • Hand lights             
  • Turn the switch on and check Air Pressure

Specific Equipment on Specific Days

Due to our health, increased CO in the station with equipment running, and the black exhaust film on the walls in the engine bays, start the apparatus and pull it outside to check it.  The apparatus only needs to be run on the days listed below unless the air pressure is low.  Do not start every piece of equipment each day.  When you have the apparatus in the parking lot check all power tools on that apparatus.  The power tools will also be run outside.  It is better for our equipment to be run 2 or 3 times a week for 10 or 15 than every day for a couple of minutes.

Engines on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays

The apparatus is to be pulled outside of the station into the parking lot.  All power tools on that engine are to be ran and fueled.  Check all lights. Put the pump in gear, open the tank fill to circulate water.  Generator ran.  Check all nozzles for GPM setting.

Aerials on Tuesdays and Fridays

The apparatus is to be pulled outside of the station into the parking lot.  All power tools on the aerial are to be ran and fueled.  Check all lights.  Put the pump in gear, open the tank fill to circulate water.  Generator ran.  Check all nozzles for GPM setting.  On the first Tuesday of the month only, the jacks are to be set and the aerial ladder is to be exercised.  If you are not check out to operate the apparatus you are not allowed to use it or operate it.

Rescues, Tankers, and Brush 15 Thursdays and Sundays

The apparatus is to be pulled outside of the station into the parking lot.  All power tools on the apparatus are to be ran and fueled.  Check all lights. Generator ran.  Check all nozzles for GPM setting.

 

The power tools check is a change from the way we have been checking equipment.  Run all power tools on the apparatus (saws, check chain tension, generators, Hurst power units, PPV fans, and generator lights) the same day the apparatus is run.