KTLA News: "Fire evacuation drill at Los Angeles County Jail" (1979)

Keep wonderful. [Music] We need squad four. >> Okay. [Applause] Brother. [Applause] status update, please [Applause] [Music] [Applause] down in the warehouse area. Sheriff's Department. [Applause] >> Uh, Roger, >> Squad 4, go ahead [Applause] in [Applause] one other attack. Command from N that'll be ventilation and one attack team. Roger. >> All right. Safe lobby. [Applause] >> DQ. Can you copy [Applause] [Music] >> We do still have some predators there. [Applause] suggestions of a medical division on the rear loading dock. [Applause] They are in that area back there. >> Roger. >> I see you from lobby. I'd like two additional uh task forces into lobby. >> Additional task force is task the ventilation division and you'll have engine 90 is there acting. Roger. >> Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Applause] and get a new bottle. >> Roger. No report to staging. [Applause] coming. [Music] [Music] [Applause] >> Engine still here. Five guys. [Music] >> Engine going to fire tag right now. Okay. [Music] >> Okay. Fire check engine. >> Truck 9. Five guys for ventilation. >> Okay. >> They got a positive. They got a ventilation system working right now. Starting to suck air out. Reports are working pretty good. >> I think if you open all the doors on this end, it'll do like a negative positive pressure type deal and ventilate the building. >> So, let's try opening all the windows and doors along this wall here. That'll hopefully get the air going back out. >> All right. This wall over here. Okay. Hey, truck 9. Let's open up the windows over here. >> Engine staging. [Applause] The air is good. So, >> you've only got 800 lb, but not going to go fast. You'll be relieving truck three or squad four. >> Pick up squad four. They've been done about 20 minutes. They're probably out of air. >> Four. Okay. [Applause] [Applause] Captain, >> you must have some very special problems involved in uh in uh if the fire should break out here at the central jail. >> It's quite a unique situation. Uh the sheriff has always been very concerned about training and safety and life safety, special training measures. And because this facility houses usually around 5,000 people who are locked in, it does present a very unique situation. Uh this is one of several fire drills we've had this year. And it's it's really uh to promote the safety of the inmates and the people working in the facility and and to get the teams of sheriff's deputies and fire people working together. >> One of the factors obviously is the safety of the the people confined here. But if the real thing were to happen, would you have a situation where the you'd be taking large numbers of inmates out of the jail for their safety? I'm talking about the concern of the surrounding community. Uh it's very possible that we would have to evacuate numbers of inmates. Uh because of the uh the type of building we have here, it's not very likely that we would have to evacuate the whole building. In our present exercise, we are moving about 700 inmates from their normal housing area into other parts of the jail. In the event of a real fire, they would be moved outside into the compound that surrounds the building where we do have adequate uh security and would be able to keep them from leaving the facility and going into the community. >> This is a modern building. What are the most likely types of fires to happen inside a jail like this? >> The most likely fires that we would have would be clothing or uh newspapers, magazines, things of that nature. The building is is primarily concrete and steel and will not burn. You have you feel you're you're confident of being able to maintain security uh under situation that might develop where you're moving large inmates, large numbers. >> Absolutely. And that's the primary reason for this type of drill to ensure that our people can respond to that type of emergency. Know what they're supposed to do. lock down the jail, which means all people are locked into specific areas of confinement, thereby minimizing the number of people we need to maintain security and freeing large numbers of people to evacuate, assist the fire department, and uh promote safety. It's good. Thought he was going to go back. Give me how many victims out And approximate recommendations.