BFP OPERATIONAL MANUAL

1 BFPOPERATIONALPROCEDURESMANUALBUREAU OF FIRE PROTECTION2015 TABLE OF CONTENTSMESSAGE OF SEC. MAR ROXAS ..iMESSAGE OF ATTY. PETER IRVING C. CORVERA ..iiMESSAGE OF DIRECTOR ARIEL A BARAYUGA ..iiiINTRODUCTION TO THE MANUAL ..ivACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..viLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ..viii1. FIRE SAFETY Building Plan Review .. Fire Safety Inspection (Pre-Construction Phase) .. Fire Safety Inspection (Construction Phase).. Fire Safety Inspection and Issuance of FSIC for Issuance of FSIC for Business Permit .. Issuance of FSIC for Renewal of Business Permit .. Business One Stop Shop (BOSS) Periodic Inspection and Inspections Resulting from Complaints and Directives from Higher Offices .. Administrative Actions for Fire Safety Violations (General Procedure).

2 Issuance and Service of Notice to Comply (NTC).. Issuance and Service of Notice to Correct Violation (NTCV) .. Issuance and Service of Abatement Order .. Imposition of Fine (Notice to Correct Violation) .. Imposition of Fine (During Abatement) .. Posting of Warnings .. Issuance and Service of Closure Order / Order of Stoppage of Operation (Due to Non-Payment of Fine) .. Issuance and Service of Closure Order / Order of Stoppage of Operation (Due to Expiration of Abatement Order) .. Implementation of Closure Order .. Declaration of Public Nuisance and Summary Application for the Approval of the Adequacy of Alternative and/or Remedial Fire Safety Measures.

3 Issuance of Certificate of Procedures in Filing Criminal Cases .. Procedures to Address Refusal to Receive Inspection Order and Disallowed Inspection ..64 ANNEXESA. Notice to Notice to Correct Abatement FIREFIGHTING Armory Fire / Explosive Basement Fire .. Fire in High-Rise Fire in Hospital Facilities with Radioactive Materials .. Fire in Jails / Correctional Institutions .. Fire in LPG Installation .. Fire in Water Vessels Docked at Wharves or Piers .. Fire Involving Hydrocarbon Substances in Oil Depot or Refinery .. Fire in Vehicles, Construction Sites and Processing Plants with Radiological Substances .. Fire Resulting from Bomb Explosion .. Fires Incidental to Fireworks / Pyrotechnics Explosion.

4 Fire Resulting from Plane Crash Outside the Airport / Airfield .. Forest Fire .. Vehicular Fire ..1103. EMERGENCY MEDICAL Assumption of Duties .. Personal Appearance .. Scope of Practice During Response .. Infection Control and Exposure .. Emergency Vehicle Response .. Use of Lights and Sirens .. Consent and Refusal of Care Guidelines .. Patient Care Report (PCR) Documentation .. Incident Rehabilitation .. Critical Incident Stress Management .. Non-Emergency Patient Transport .. Response to Crime Scenes .. Response to Fire Response to HAZMAT .. Response to Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) .. Response to Medical Response to Vehicular Accidents .. Special Activities Medical Standby.

5 1714. SPECIAL Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) Collapsed Structure Rescue Operations .. Confined Space Rescue Operations .. Civil Disturbance Management (CDM).. Disaster Response .. Electrocution Rescue Elevator Rescue Operations .. Fire Ground Rescue Operation .. Hazardous Materials High Elevation / High Rise Structure / High Angle Rescue Mountain Rescue Operations .. Water Rescue Operations .. Turn Over of Duties and Special Operations Personnel Daily Routine .. Vehicular Accident Rescue Operations .. Trench Rescue Operations ..235 ANNEXESA. After HAZMAT / CBR Operation After Operation FIRE / ARSON Determining Fire Origin .. Determining Fire Cause.

6 Determining Responsibility and DISASTER Response to Response to Response to Tsunami .. Response to Typhoon and Flood .. Response to Volcanic Eruption ..278 ANNEXESA. After Operation Form 1 - Partial Recapitulation of 2 - Partial Recapitulation of Responses(Responding Units) Fire Truck / Ambulances / Rescue 3 - Partial Recapitulation of Responses(Evacuation Center)..285 Form 4 - Partial Recapitulation of Responses(Flooded Areas)..286 Form 5 - Partial Recapitulation of Responses(Rescued / Assisted Individuals)..287C. Form 1 - Status 2 - Damage to Infrastructures/Status of VISION ..291 BFP MISSION ..291 BFP HYMN ..292iHON. MAR ROXASMESSAGEC ongratulations to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) for crafting the BFP Operations MANUAL .

7 This MANUAL details the protocols and procedures to be followed in combating and responding to fires, emergencies, and disasters. This is your tool for sharpening your abilities and decision-making it is more than just a guide for action. It reflects thte dedication and courage you show every time you respond to the call for service. Grounded on a strong value system, it will help you build and strengthen your relationship with the people and communities you look a leader and civil servant, the people place their trust in you. You are the protectors of their properties, homes and families. You protect and save, and you help rebuild lives and dreams.

8 Your service to the nation helps ignite development and progress for all. It is thus your duty to continue to strive for exellence in your profession. Use this MANUAL to pursue that MAR ROXASS ecretaryDepartment of the Interior and Local GovernmentiiThere are no room for errors when it is the safety and welfare of the public is at stake. As the government agency mandated to safeguard the community from the havoc of disastrous fires, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) should not be content in routinely responding to fires and disasters; it should continuously break new , I take pride in congratulating the BFP for completing this much-anticipated MANUAL which is vital in ensuring the delivery of quality public safety services.

9 I personally would like to commend the men and women of the BFP who were behind this endeavor - for the diligence and perseverance which you invested in the preparation of this MANUAL which marks another milestone for the this MANUAL serve as a reliable guide to the firefighters of the land as you execute your duties of protecting and saving lives and property. In the service of the country, we all PETER IRVING C. CORVERAATTY. PETER IRVING C. CORVERAU ndersecretary for Public SafetyDepartment of the Interior and Local GovernmentMESSAGEiiiF/DIR ARIEL A BARAYUGA, CEO VIChief, Bureau of Fire ProtectionMESSAGED ocumenting work processes and good practices in the Philippine Fire Service has been quite challenging a task for the project team headed by Chief Superintendent Lorenzo S.

10 De Guia, the incumbent BFP Deputy Chief for Operations, and the team s predecessors. Before the success of Chief Superintendent De Guia s team in coming out with this MANUAL , our Bureau s firefighters have relied heavily on knowledge and skills transfer by tradition; training based on foreign modules and references; and learning from experience. Policy circulars pertaining to certain aspects of fire operations are not few. But, our agency lacked a document that integrates written and unwritten fire operation procedures, as well as policies, into a systematic whole, a homegrown reference that embodies a continually improving standard for quality fire operations in the resources mobilized and utilized for the development of this MANUAL , however relatively limited, were directed towards the fulfillment of a single overarching objective, that is, to produce a MANUAL that is usable here and now yet improvable in and by the foreseeable future.