Fire Service Drill Towers.

[johnb]

I have searched high and low regarding this issue and cannot find a difinitive answer. Is there any legislation / guidance regarding the height of the sills in Drill Towers and when steps are required when entering from the outside via a ladder?

[CivvyFSO]

Forgive my ignorance;

Why would you need guidance on the height of the sills?

Why would you need steps?

[Phoenix]

Do all houses that have fires first have to provide steps inside the windows that are accessed via ladders?  And can they not have a fire until their sills have been measured to ensure that fire fighters wont have to step down too far?

I can't be doing with all this bureaucracy.  In my day, if a house wanted to catch fire it could just do it, it didn't have to have steps inside the windows and sills at a certain height.

Stu

[deaconj999]

Johnb,

About 10 years ago I had a drill tower built and the contractor put the windows in with marble sills and the window opening itself was put in at a rotation of 90 degrees. I believe I referred to a DCOL which I used to argue the height of the sills as they were below a prescribed design height and would have required a safety barrier.

I will try and dig out a reference but don't hold your breath, it may have been on the old Fire CDs we used to have which was run from a programme called winspirs, if memory serves.

Steps are just used for safety in recruit training as far as I know and generally 'knocked' up to suit.