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want people who are passionate and dedicated to protecting the palaces and collections. There is normally a waiting list to join our teams. Safety is paramount and working at an incident could be the most dangerous thing anyone ever has to do. We do not expect our teams to be in smoke fi lled rooms, but even on the periphery of the fi re our teams need to be well protected. That means protective overalls, boots, gloves, headgear with miner’s head lamps, and overcoats for outdoor work. The salvage and recovery coordinators wear identifying tabards. A risk assessment of the likely risks must be carried out, as must dynamic briefi ngs on the day. We must be able to account for our teams if they go inside the buildings, so we set up tally systems at the entry point to the building. We follow the instructions of the fi re service and know the evacuation signal – the blowing of whistles. No matter how historic an object is, nothing is as precious as life.
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Salvage sector in action: London Fire Brigade crews detailed to assist HRP salvage team (Credit: HRP).
Not all our salvagers are conservators, indeed a wide mix of skill sets is encouraged. People who work with tools are particularly useful: our maintenance response teams and gardeners are well represented. People who work in the warding teams are also useful – they really know the insides of the buildings and the collections. Most of all, we
Every time we hold an exercise we learn something new. To aid identifi cation we provide refl ective hat covers for the salvage coordinator. We recently purchased pop-up salvage command tents – similar to police forensic tents – to provide shelter from the elements. How do you alert your salvage and incident
response teams in an emergency? Manual telephone calls take forever and, while cascade
INCIDENT COMMANDER
DUTY MANAGER SECTOR
COMMANDER SALVAGE
INTEGRATED PALACE / FIRE
SERVICE SALVAGE TEAMS
The salvage sector. 50 JUNE 2019
www.frmjournal.com PALACE SALVAGE COORDINATOR
COLLECTIONS LEAD
PALACE
RECOVERY COORDINATOR
OBJECTS REMOVED
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