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MINERVA EXERCISES BASED AROUND COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

Exercise
Overview
You are called to a well developed fire in a central office block, issues involve missing persons and staff, possible traffic issues and cround control.

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Minerva - Office Block
Fire in timberyard with person reported. Smoke effecting neighbouring / resitential properties. Ongoing issues involved including water run off and cylinders.

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Minerva - Timberyard
B&Q is based on a large portal frame building used as a DIY store. The building comprising of an un-compartmented high bay warehouse. A rapidly developing fire starts in the paints & varnishes section of the store. There is an incomplete role call. Initial fire fighting operations can be achieved internally but will be pushed external after some time. An effective fire break can save the Garden centre but the store will be a complete loss.

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Minerva - B&Q Warehouse
Fire Develops inside a vehicle repair unit. The rapidly developing fire can spread laterally or outside to the scrap yard at the rear. There is potential for cylinder involvement.

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Minerva - Bolina Road
The rapidly developing fire can spread laterally or outside to the locked car park at the rear. There is potential for cylinder involvement. Adjacent building used for small animal storage also becomes smoke logged due to air intake fans on the side of the building facing the fire. Towards the end of the exercise a gas maine in the rear car park can also become involved.

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Minerva - Bolida Road 2
A fire in a building resulting in a collapse of of a wall with possible missing emplyees

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Minerva - Collapse Building
  A car fire adjacent to the pallet yard. The fire spreads and on arrival the pallet yard is involved in fire. There are cylinders on the fork lift truck and also possibly within the yard. There is massive fore development and adjacent properties are at risk. There is potential for fire to spread to adjacent property.

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Minerva - Nobel Road
Crews attend fire in upper floors of Public house

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Minerva - Pub
You are called out at 13:05 as part of a two pump attendance to Habour Avenue Service Station, Habour Road, Anytown. Both pumps will arrive together. On arrival you can clearly see smoke, issuing from the roof of the building as you approach you are met by the Manager of the petrol station.

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Minerva - Petrol station and Shop
A passenger jet has problems during take off and has crashed into one end of a large shopping centre. The incident happens on a Friday afternoon when traffic is at it's busiest and with a possible 2000 person capacity in the shopping centre. possibility of silver command meeting and contingences.

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Minerva - Major Shopping centre
You are called to a industrial property in a commercail garage. Possible issues invovle welding equipment and a MOT pit.

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Minerva - MOT bay and Workshop
Whilst unloading from a road tanker a leak develops from the pipe gland post pump and a developing fire will occur beginning to spread into the bund area.

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Minerva - Synthomer

A timber built civic hall of laminated timber portal frame construction. Following an evening function the premises was locked securely. Approximately 1½ hours later smoke was seen issuing from the premises.

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Minerva - Civic Hall
Vehicle fire onboard a fully loaded roll on roll off vessel which is initially wrongly reported as an engine room fire.

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Minerva - Ship Fire
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 

 

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