INDT 404-48 Community Planning and Design Fire Protection and Management

Module 1

Pre-Incident Plan

Idaho Department of Lands

3563 Ririe Highway Idaho Falls, ID 83401

A Government Business

Written By Katina Kienlen

Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 1

Site Location .................................................................................................................................................. 2

Exterior Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 3

Main Building Layout .................................................................................................................................... 5

Shop .............................................................................................................................................................. 9

Fuel House .................................................................................................................................................... 9

Blueprints .................................................................................................................................................... 11

References .................................................................................................................................................. 22

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Introduction

This pre-incident plan is for a State Government Business, Idaho Department of Lands (IDL). IDL is a land management agency that works in wildland fire, minerals, grazing, navigable waterways and forestry. This pre-incident report will be added to the Easter Idaho Supervisory Area, Idaho Falls Office, annual safety plan. It is the intent of this pre-incident plan to help find deficiencies in the safety of the building and provide emergency responders prudent information regarding the building and chemicals stored on the premises.

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Site Location

Idaho Department of Lands is located at 3563 Ririe Highway (Hwy 26) near Beeches Corner in Bonneville County Idaho. The business

is surrounded on the North, South, and West primarily by crop land. To the East is Rain for Rent a commercial business. The closest

fire hydrant is located approximately .50 miles to the Southwest at a gas station, Stinker Station.

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Exterior Overview

There are two gas shut off valves for the shop and main building. There are four air conditioning units

located on the West and North sides of the main building. There are emergency shut off switches

attached to the building for each unit. The property is surrounded by a barbed wire fence. On the

southeast side of the fence there are two gates. One allows vehicle access the other allows foot

access. Both are locked. There is no emergency key provided therefore the locks must be cut.

There is a gate located on the southwest side of the property that is not accessible due to a loading

ramp located on the south side of the gate. There is one final vehicle access gate located on the

northwest of the property on Highway 43. It is locked so bolt cutters must be used to access the

property. The back compound has a gravel base (not shown in the image).

There is a fuel house located on the north side of the property. On the east side of the fuel house

there is a storage container that is LP gas rated that is not attached to the ground but is locked.

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Exterior Overview

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Main Building Layout

The original construction of the building is from 1967. There were two remodels, 1992 and 2001, and

one addition added in 2006. The original structure is above the orange line and the addition is above

the blue line.

1966-Original construction

o Office 1 has potential asbestos ceiling

1991-The upper portion of the office to the east was converted from a warehouse to office

space.

o There is a drop acoustic ceiling

o The original ceiling made of wood and exposed beams and joists is still visible behind

the drop ceiling

o The exit on the lower level of the original building as a vestibule.

The original electrical panel is located in this space.

The original shake shingles still exist on two walls within this space

2001-The basement was remodeled

o There were a total of six windows added to the basement. None of which are fire

escape rated.

o There are no exit signs located in the basement

o There are a total of 2 rooms.

A storage room that contains the HVAC system and a shower.

There is an exit located in this room that leads outside to the north.

2005-The portion of the building above the blue line is the addition.

o The original exterior wall was removed.

o There is a HVAC and electrical panel located in the conference room

o Siding was added at this time to the entire exterior of the building. It is not known at this

time if the original shake shingles were removed prior to instillation of the siding.

There are no fire sprinklers located in the office building or the out buildings. There are handheld fire

extinguishers thought the main building, gas house and shop. They are located as indicated. There

are ceiling mounted fire alarms located in every room except the bathrooms in the original building.

There are flashing fire beacons as indicated. There are several pull fire alarms located as indicated.

The main fire alarm panel is located in “Office 1” and is indicated on the building outline.

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Main Building Layout

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Main Building Layout –with NFPA 170 Symbo

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Basement

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Shop

The shop is a metal construction with two individual bays (bay 1 and bay 2) separated by metal walls.

Both of these bays have doors for entry located on the west and south sides of the building. They

also have single car garage overhead roll up doors. The rest of the bays (3-4) are open with no walls

or partitions and have double car overhead roll up doors.

Bay 1-Main Vehicle Shop

o Open pit used for servicing vehicles covered with railroad ties

o Various weed spraying chemicals in the southeast corner

o Various automotive chemicals

o Shop tools

o Welding supplies including compressed gas

o Spray paint used cans

Bay 2-Fire warehouse storage

o May contain a forklift

o Hazardous materials (fusees) located in the cabinet

o Handheld ABC dry chem fire extinguishers storage (approximately 10) in cabinet

o Chainsaws

o Shovels, pulaskis, rakes, and other wildland firefighting equipment

Bay 3-5 general storage

o May contain vehicles or trailers.

o Bay 4 has unused spray paint located against the north wall (approximately 40 boxes of

24 cans each)

Bay 6-ATV/UTV storage

o Also contains archived files along the east wall

Fuel House

The fuel house on the north side of the main building is constructed of wood and has wood shake

shingles as an exterior.

Contents

o Mixed fuel for chainsaws in sig bottles

o Mystery fuel in a 50 gallon drum

o Diesel in a 50 gallon drum

o Gas cans (various sizes) primarily metal cans

o Drip torches

o LP gas storage on the exterior east side

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Shop

Fuel House Accessible gate on south and front of shop

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Blueprints

The following pages contain images from the original blue prints for 1966, 1991, and 2005. The following is a link to be used to access the original PDF full size images.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cb03r4tf7ow1x7n/AAB4cOn1UjIB_DO0GvqZZWVga?dl=0

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1966 Foundation Basement1966 Roof Plan and Beam Details

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1966 Section Plans

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1991 Details

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1991 Floor Plans and Ceiling

16

1991 Mechanical Detail

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1991 Fire Alarm

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2005 Remodel Floor and Ceiling Plan

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2005 Roof and Framing

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2005 Site Plan

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2005 Walls

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References

Google Earth V. 7.1. (September 5, 2016). Idaho Department of Lands, Idaho Falls, ID. 43°32’33.80”N 111°57’46.82”W, Eye at 5368 feet.

CA Sunberg & Associates, Architects. (July 1966). Blueprints, sheets 2 and 6.

SA Sunberg & Associates Architects, INC. (1991). Blueprints, sheets A-1, A-2, M-1.

Nielson Bodily & Associates P.A. Architects. (November 2005). Blueprints, sheet E1.1

Nielson Bodily & Associates P.A. Architects. (November 2006). Blueprints, sheets A1.1, A3.1, S2.1 and SD0.1