INCIDENT EVENT AND DECISION LOG Address: Laura Ashley, Cathedral Yard, Exeter Incident No: 16294 Time & Date of Call: 0511: 28/10/16 Time & Date of log commenced: 0621: 28/10/16 Book No: 1 of 15 TIME/DATE EVENT S40(1) FOIA 2000 0621 Informative from Group Manager all persons accounted for. 28/10/16 Building under renovation of 5 floors approximately 30m x 30m. Fire spread to adjacent hotel. Incident sectorised; Silver Command to be at Heavitree Police Station. 0624 Building collapse at Laura Ashley 0625 Laura Ashley shop keys with Sector 3 Dennis 4553; S40(1) FOIA 2000 Manager. S40(1) FOIA 2000 S40(1) FOIA 20 0630 Station Manager and GM now at incident. 0645 High Volume Pump (HVP) required at incident. 0653 S40(1) FOIA 2000 now Ops Commander S40(1) FOIA 2000 0706 Further informative from Group Manager 6 Breathing Apparatus (BA), 1 main jet, 2 monitors from hydraulic platform, 2 ground monitors, steady progress; crews Oscar mode. Drone S40(1) FOIA 20 required, level 2 0709 Key holder for Laura Ashley S40(1) FOIA 2000 0711 Control to inform EA 0720 S40(1) FOIA 2000 in attendance. 0730 Arm band 63 S40(1) FOIA 2000 0741 VB002 ACFO Glenn Askew in attendance. 0754 Further informative, 4 BA, 1 main jet, 2 ground monitors. HVP set up in Southernhay to service water main. Steady progress; Oscar (offensive) mode. 0755 12 pump relief requested between 0900 and 1000 by Station Manager S40(1) FOIA 2000 0800 From Sector 5 S40(1) FOIA 2000 , all properties downwind in Cathedral Close have been checked. 0816 Western Power requested. 0818 Cathedral area closed; will be reviewed at 1000. Sent by Station Manager S40(1) FOIA 2000 0824 Plans for Royal Clarence being sent from Control to fire ground under S40(1) FOIA 2000 road speed; sent by Station Manager S40(1) FOIA 2000 0833 BA cylinders requested by Station Manager 0837 Area Manager Blackburn now in charge of the incident. 0848 Western Power requested at 0816, should be here within the hour. 0857 Fire safety from Cathedral has checked and given all clear. Will check throughout the day. 0908 Western Power Expected Time of Arrival 30 mins. 0945 Silver Command meeting Joint Emergency Services Interoperability S40(1) FOIA 2000 CM Programme (JESIP) S40(1) FOIA 2000 Group Manager has now handed over to AM Blackburn. 12 pump relief requested between 0900 and 1000. In attendance at the meeting: S40(1) FOIA 2000 Group Manager Areas Manager Blackburn; Group Manager S40(1) FOIA 2000 Exeter City Council; Police – Silver; Hart Team Leader; Structural Engineer from affected buildings and Building Control. Police currently in control of cordons; High Street, Sidwell Street; South Street; Southernhay. First attending crews had issues with water and persons missing from hotel. Now all accounted for. Area Manager Blackburn: this building is now a dangerous structure. Major incident declared by Police and Fire, ongoing as of 0900. S40(1) FOIA 2000 (Ops Commander): fire now contained. Concerned about structural integrity; cordon currently in Cathedral Green is 1½ times the height of the building. Risk assessment taken into account fire spread at roof level. Firefighters checking fire spread to Waterstones. Electrical transformer being monitored by Western Power. High Street resources now being reduced. All water provided by hydrants. Surrounding buildings being assessed (Sector 5). Area Manager Blackburn: Unclear effect of fire on scaffolding – adding weight or helping? Building Control: Internal walls all gone and should collapse into building. External walls and gables unsound. This area will be out of bounds for a considerable time. The building is 14m high. Area Manager Blackburn: Will assess cordon. Transformer in basement of Waterstones is a priority and is being monitored. Structural Engineer: Asbestos survey was complete and all asbestos had been removed from building (paperwork to be provided). Active Risk Assessment to be updated, Area Manager Blackburn: Risks still posed: • Economic risk – City • Persons moved from Royal Clarence Hotel • Cordon adjusted for Petrocs (homeless shelter) • Reputational risk – Police and Council No injuries have been reported at this incident. Water supply now good. Pressure should be reduced in a manageable way – inform South West Water. Scaffolding company want to build a supporting scaffold at front of the S40(1) FOIA 2000 building. Station Manager to liaise with scaffold company. Area Manager Blackburn: Fire surrounded. Scaling down slowly. To minimise impact on City. Options going forward: Critical High Street is re- opened as soon as possible. Building Control are satisfied that High Street can be re-opened once firefighting activities finished. To consider: • Police in charge of press liaison • Water should be reduced gradually • Assistant Chief at Gold meeting – Middlemoor • Assistant Chief to take lead on media • Fire Service will only take questions about fire • Gold to provide key messages • Weather report required End of Silver Meeting notes 0940 Officer In Charge Blackburn informative: 2 BA; 1HP; 1 main jet. Oscar 0954 Western Power in attendance. Sub station ok, Western Power standing by. Electrical transformer ok. 0958 Next Silver Command meeting at 1000 (JESIP). 1018 Large quantities of smoke now issuing from roof of Royal Clarence Hotel. S40(1) FOIA 2000 BA being increased in sector appropriately (from ). 1029 S40(1) FOIA 2000, 18 Cathedral Yard Structural Engineer S40(1) FOIA 2000 left site. 1031 8 firefighters assisting hose management sector 4. 1039 Weather report from Control. South West light wind 6 hours North West 6mph no rain. 1049 Informative from Officer In Charge Blackburn: 2 BA, 2 hydraulic platforms in use. Fire spread to roof of Royal Clarence Hotel. 1051 Rapid Relief supplying refreshments for 120 agreed by Station Manager S40(1) FOIA 2000 1101 Make VEMAs 3 HPs S40(1) FOIA 2000 1121 From make pumps 6 and crew 1126 Officer In Charge Blackburn: make a further 6 Pumps manpower S40(1) FOIA 2000 1146 From requested from Officer In Charge Blackburn require 3 x level 3 officers and 3 x level 3 ICS officers. 1155 HVP make 1 Station 60 1201 Make up 2 more Pumps and make ALPs 4 1207 Further informative from Officer In Charge Blackburn; 6 BA, 3 HVP, CAFFs Oscar mode 1212 Army laptop in room 218 1225 20 cans Class A Foam (CAF) to fire ground. 20 drums S40(1) FOIA 2000 1227 FromS40(1) FOIA 2000: Station Managr now sector 3 Officer In Charge CM on Marks and Spencer roof visually only. S40(1) FO 1257 From S40(1) FOIA 2000 : Police drone will be used by Fire Service 1258 2 BA in sector 5 with fog jet. 1318 Sector 4; 4 BA TEC ventilation of smoke bloom 1320 VB002 ACFO Glenn Askew in attendance. 1358 Hart Team are relocating to sector 3. 1410 Following a multi agency meeting of all services at 1330 and subsequent Ops Briefing at 1400 the following has been agreed: All sectors to review their ARAs, safety cordons and procedures. These will be updated and received to Command Support by a runner every 20 minutes. A revision of the VEMA operators has taken place and VEMA operators accompanied by one other firefighter to make better use of the resource. The following people have been identified as VEMA operators. 1415 Tactical multi agency debrief re-evaluating incident. AGA being re- activated – informative from Incident Commander. INCIDENT EVENT AND DECISION LOG Address: Laura Ashley, Cathedral Yard, Exeter Incident No: 16294 Time & Date of Call: 0511: 28/10/16 Time & Date of log commenced: 1420: 28/10/16 Book No: 2 of 15 the roof. The benefit of the crews entering could not be justified Reason Time & Date: 1830 28/10/16 Entry made by (role, surname, service no. in capitals: S40(1) FOIA 2000 Signature: Decision made by (if different from above role, surname, service no. in capitals): S40(1) FOIA 2000 GM Signature: S40(1) FOIA 2000 S40(1) FOIA 2000 1835 WM taken over ARA collating role from WM S40(1) FOIA 2000 1839 GM requested 6 BA wearers to sector 5 via sector 3. S40(1) FOIA 2000 1846 GM requested 4 BA wearers to sector 3 1905 Operations Commander has sanctioned the Foam Pod to be collected by Ivybridge prime mover. 1915 V44P2 have been mobilised by Control to pick up V44P1 crew as V44P1 is embedded in the incident. 1919 Request made to Exeter City Council Princesshay Management to use their welfare facilities in St Stevens Square 1919 St Stevens Square 1954 AM Commander West taken over as Incident Commander 2011 SM S40(1) FOIA 2000 taken over as Commander of Sector 1. 2039 Stock take of CAF completed, currently 600 litres unused foam on standby providing 4 hours at current rate at intermittent use 2045 Operations Commander requested foam pod from Burnham on Sea for all available CAFs S40(1) FOIA 20 2050 Sector 5 Commander SM has 1 x BA crew in Oscar mode in pasty shop. 2110 V31C1 is now the Control point at this incident. 2145 (no date) Log Book 2 (page 10) Decision Sector 5 now committing 3 personnel in BA to the 1st floor into bakery. Sector 3 committing 1 BA to 2nd floor of Costa Coffee firefighting. Reason To look for fire spread in roof space. To stop fire spread. Time & Date: 2145 (no date) Entry made by (role, surname, service no. in capitals: S40(1) FOIA 2000 Signature: Decision made by (if different from above role, surname, service no. in capitals): S40(1) FOIA 2000 Group Manager Signature: (none) 2200 28/10/16 Log Book 2 (page 12) Decision Aerial ladder platform has now been relocated in sector 4.