THE LORRAINE REPORT
Highlights of the "After Action Report" completed by Municipal Resources Inc. on the Lorraine Apartments and Temple Ahavat Achim Middle Street fire, December 14-15, 2007.
"Severe safety issues"
"There was no formal incident command."
"Companies were operating on the interior without adequate communications."
"No safety officer was assigned or even found to be included in the operating procedures of the department."
"Scene security was inadequate to nonexistent."
"Interagency organization and the liaison to outside agencies was nonexistent ..."
"Crews were operating unsafely above the fire floor without access to charged hose lines."
Other assessments
"The Fire Department was unprepared to battle a fire of this size"; report also indicates that personnel had not been sufficiently trained.
"Since the incident, neither the fire chief nor the department had initiated any changes to the department's standard operating procedures."
Source: Fire Service After Action, prepared by MRI.
