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Okay, here's the scenario:
Basics: Small town in suburban Western Oregon, close to a fictional county seat. Large Victorian house/mansion on about 6 acres. Carriage house is on the opposite side of the carriage drive and perhaps 50 feet down the carriage drive from it. It's the main place of business for the owners of the mansion and their friend, the mc. Abandoned pasture/berry patch on the other side of the carriage house. The house fronts on one street, but most traffic and most cars come in by way of the back street. The back street has several houses fronting it opposite the carriage & mansion, a minimum of fifty feet away, and much more in most cases.
Arsons set fire (using gasoline) to the carriage house in the late evening after most of the people in the mansion are in bed. One of those people, whose bedroom faces the carriage house, notices the fire, calls 911, and notifies everyone else. They are getting out of the house as the firetruck arrives. They will be leaving out the front door, but the firetruck(s) will arrive on the back street. Any firefighters trying to get to the mansion will have to go around the block or past the fire to get there. By the time the truck arrives, the carriage house will be beyond redemption.
An off-duty police officer will drive by (his house is on the other side of the mansion and down the road a few blocks) perhaps some twenty minutes or so after the truck arrives. He will offer assistance.
Questions:
1. What are the firefighters going to do first?
2. How are they going to contact the residents of the mansion who are standing on the other side of the mansion's front street?
3. Are they going to contact the people in the houses on the other side of the street from the carriage house?
4. When the residents be allowed back in? (the mansion doesn't catch fire)
5. When will media arrive?
6. What tasks will the police officer be set? There will be an on-duty officer who I assume will be redirecting traffic.
7. How long will it take to get the fire out? (Yes, I know, it depends, but...)
8. How long will the smell last?
9. Anything obvious I need to know?
Thanks for any and all help.
Blessings,
Siri Kirpal
Okay, here's the scenario:
Basics: Small town in suburban Western Oregon, close to a fictional county seat. Large Victorian house/mansion on about 6 acres. Carriage house is on the opposite side of the carriage drive and perhaps 50 feet down the carriage drive from it. It's the main place of business for the owners of the mansion and their friend, the mc. Abandoned pasture/berry patch on the other side of the carriage house. The house fronts on one street, but most traffic and most cars come in by way of the back street. The back street has several houses fronting it opposite the carriage & mansion, a minimum of fifty feet away, and much more in most cases.
Arsons set fire (using gasoline) to the carriage house in the late evening after most of the people in the mansion are in bed. One of those people, whose bedroom faces the carriage house, notices the fire, calls 911, and notifies everyone else. They are getting out of the house as the firetruck arrives. They will be leaving out the front door, but the firetruck(s) will arrive on the back street. Any firefighters trying to get to the mansion will have to go around the block or past the fire to get there. By the time the truck arrives, the carriage house will be beyond redemption.
An off-duty police officer will drive by (his house is on the other side of the mansion and down the road a few blocks) perhaps some twenty minutes or so after the truck arrives. He will offer assistance.
Questions:
1. What are the firefighters going to do first?
2. How are they going to contact the residents of the mansion who are standing on the other side of the mansion's front street?
3. Are they going to contact the people in the houses on the other side of the street from the carriage house?
4. When the residents be allowed back in? (the mansion doesn't catch fire)
5. When will media arrive?
6. What tasks will the police officer be set? There will be an on-duty officer who I assume will be redirecting traffic.
7. How long will it take to get the fire out? (Yes, I know, it depends, but...)
8. How long will the smell last?
9. Anything obvious I need to know?
Thanks for any and all help.
Blessings,
Siri Kirpal