201.01B Mayday Readiness & Response Flashcards
What is a Mayday and who can call it?
Any situation where a FF is unable to safely exit the hazard zone or an event that cannot be resolved by that individual within 30 Seconds. Any member working on duty can call a Mayday
NFPA 1500 defines Mayday readiness as?
ability to “don, doff, and manipulate the SCBA in zero visibility while wearing firefighting gloves.”
What are the most important factors for Mayday prevention?
- working within an Incident Command System/Risk Management System
- Working within IAP
- Never freelance
- Maintaining individual and crew air management
- Management of work cycles
- Monitoring distances traveled into buildings
- Layering of resources and providing for tactical reserves
- Planning and acting out an exit plan
What are the 2 components for Mayday readiness?
Prevention and Response
What are the individual firefighter responsibilities for Mayday prevention?
- Maintaining SCBA proficiency
- Practicing individual air management
- Use and care of PPE
- Portable radio proficiency and use
- Practiced crew communications
- Roving/replacement FF integration into crew
- Individual FF’s have to be responsible to ask if not initiated by company officer
What are the Company Officer responsibilities in Mayday prevention?
-Integrating daily SCBA check into crew routine
-Practicing crew communication in hazard zone
-Rover integration into crew
-Rovers are responsible to ask if not discussed
-Maintaining knowledge of portable radios
-Ensuring Company Officer expectations are clear to crew
Practicing and maintaining crew integrity/accountability
-Instilling the standard that FF’s should always stay on a hoseline
What are the individual FF responsibilities for Mayday response?
- Maintaining preparation and reaction skills
- Early communication of Mayday situation
- Controlling emotional response to situation
- BOA- Breathe, Organize, Act
- Utilization of IAFF Fire Ground Survival training
- SCBA familiarization
- High/low profile wall breech
- Disentanglement
- Ladder bail
- Window Hang
- GRAB LIVES
What does the acronym GRAB LIVES stand for?
G-Check air gauge R-Radio for assistance A-Activate PASS Device B-Control Breathing, Conserve Air L-Stay Low I-Illuminate, Turn Flashlight On V-Make loud noises, (volume) E Find an Exit S-Shield your airway
What are the responsibilities at the tactical level for Mayday response and readiness?
- Working within the overall IAP
- Continual assessment of the decision making model within sector operations
- Management of tactical objectives for the sector through position and functions of crews working within this sector
In the event of a Mayday situation, who will take responsibility of the resolution of the Mayday situation?
Sector officer of the Sector where the Mayday was called?
Who has the ultimate responsibility for actively and continually providing for the prevention and response to a Mayday situation?
The Incident Command Team
Should the Incident and Mayday always remain on the same tactical radio channel?
Yes
What is the tactical benchmark for the end point of a Mayday?
Mayday resloved
What are the critical points that have to be confirmed prior to giving the benchmark of “Mayday Resolved”?
- Individual experiencing Mayday has been removed from hazard zone
- All members involved in the rescue are accounted for and out of hazard zone
- All members working in sector are accounted for
- The IC can give a PAR for the entire hazard zone
In the event of a Mayday, who has the responsibility to notify command of the completion of the rescue and that all members involved are out of hazard zone?
Officer of the individual sector in which the Mayday occurred
