Ch 12 the company officers role in planning and readiness Flashcards
Emergency management is a combination of what three things
Anticipation, preparation, and action
For emergency service providers, anticipation is represented by what
Pre-planning
Preparation is in part based in
Training
What are important activities for fire departments and the companies that make up fire departments
Preplanning and training
What two schools are both part of FEMA and are located in Emmitsburg, Maryland
The national fire Academy and the emergency management institute
Much of the national fire Academy and the emergency management Institute’s training is based on the concept that comprehensive emergency management is comprised of what for activities
Mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery
What refers to the activities that actually illuminate or reduce the chance of the occurrence of an event or the effects of the event if it does occur
Mitigation
What includes the pre-planning activity on how to respond and the effort to increase resources available to respond effectively
Preparedness
What activities are designed to provide emergency assistance to victims
Response
What includes both public and private efforts to restore the situation to normal
Recovery
What is essential for emergency scene management
Good pre-planning
What is a process of preparing a plan for emergency operations at a given occupancy or hazard
Pre-incident planning
What is a written document resulting from the gathering of general and detailed information or data to be used by public emergency response agencies in private industry for determining the response to reasonably anticipate incidence
Pre-incident planning
What is ensuring that responding emergency personnel know as much as they can about it facilities construction, occupancy, and fire protection systems before an incident occurs
Pre-incident planning
Pre incident planning often starts with a
survey of the property
Pre-incident planning Consist of these interrelated related activities
Pre-incident survey, Development of the information and resources, development of procedures
Pre incident Planning Office starts with a survey of the property, this activity is called what
Pre-incident survey
Using Who for a pre-incident planning activities allows personnel to become familiar with the property and allows the public to see the firefighters interest in protecting the proper
First due companies
Given that you cannot plan for every situation, you should plan for those that
Present the greatest risk
What are those occupancies is that present high risk to life safety and proper
Target hazards
What type of facility plans to limit patient movement and rely on fire doors, fire resistant Corredor walls, smoke and fire barriers, and fire detection and suppression systems
Healthcare facilities
What is the fact-finding portion of the pre-incident planning process
The pre-Incident survey
What is the first step in the Pre-incident survey process
To make an appointment to visit the facility at a mutually convenient time
What is an overhead view of the entire property showing the structures placement, access, utilities, water supply, and other major external features
Plot plan
What is a drawing that shows the major internal structural features Of the building and special hazards
Floor pans
Even when a pre-plan already exist, it is advisable To a visit the site how many times a year to see if it’s up to date
Once
The survey information and pre-incident plan should follow the same principles in the incident Command system, giving first consideration to what
Life safety
Your final concern should be to consider what you can do to reduce the loss that will result from the fire and the fire suppression efforts, this is called
Property conservation
Re-locating occupants to another part of the building is called what, this is a likely situation any large high-rise building
Shelter In place
How many exposures are there in a fire
Six
True or false, a program for conducting pre-incident surveys does not replace the need for conducting regular fire prevention
Inspections
True
True or false, Pre-incident surveys are best done by suppression personnel within their own response area
True
What is one of the most critical task an officer will perform
Making the risk Versus benefit analysis and determining the operational mode
What are legal binding documents that require administrative approval above the level of the company officer pertaining to requests Of assistance
Memorandums of understanding
NFPA (blank), standard for fire safety an emergency symbols, provides a good listing of standard symbols used in preplanning and other fire related applications
170
What is usually a several page document that follows an established format and list the various hazards associated with the type of hazard, and establishes standard procedures for first arriving companies
Standard operating procedure
What provides an indication of the ability of the nations fire departments to deal with selected large scale events with locally trained personnel
A needs assessment of the United States fire service
National fire Academy suggest a very simple form for recording the information for the pre-incident plan called a
Quick access pre-fire plan
The standard for providing emergency services to the public, NFPA (blank) is intended for the use and guidance of those charged with providing fire protection services to protect lives, property, and the environment from the effects of fire and, in many other cases, peril
1201
What is the key to the fire fighter safety as well as the departments effectiveness
Training
No factor has more effect on a fire departments operations than what
It’s training program
No one has more impact on the firefighters attitude toward training than the
Company officer
Efficient use of what provides significant opportunities to increase the readiness of the fire department and it’s personnel
Training time
Educators tell us that training proceeds what
Learning
What is the process of acquiring new knowledge and skills
Learning
What period Is important because the opportunity and motivation for individual learning is at its greatest during these few months
The probationary firefighter period
All participates in life fire training should’ve achieved a basic level of (blank) To participate
Fire fighter I
What should be used instead of acquired structures for all live fire training events
Training facility burn buildings
fire training evolutions should be conducted in accordance with the current condition of NFPA (blank), standard on life fire training evolutions
1403
All training should be conducted according to what
Standardized lesson plans
True or false, lesson plans should never be considered as restricting new approaches for presenting material, improving teaching effectiveness, or maintaining student interest
True
What kind of training includes classroom instructions, practice of evolutions, drills, street and building familiarization‘s, inspections, and pre-incident planning.
Company level training
Step: ignition point
Interval :
Free burning time
Step:
Recognition
point
Interval :
Permitted burn time
Step: detection point
Interval :
Transmission time
Step: notification point
Interval
Alarm handling time
Step: alert point
Interval
Turn out time
Step: response point
Interval
Travel time
Step: arrival point
Interval
Set up time
Step: attack point
Interval
Control time
Step:
fire contained point
Interval
Overall time
NFPA 1710 allows how many minutes for firefighters to get to the vehicle, Don protective clothing, and take their place within the vehicle
1 minute
After the vehicle leaves the station, NFPA calls for Arrival within how many minutes or less
7 minutes or less
NFPA (blank), standard for the organization and deployment of fire suppression operations, emergency Medical operations, and special operations to the public by career fire departments, provides the following guidelines for response times by career Departments
1710
NFPA 1710 allows how much time for turnout time
60 seconds
NFPA 1710 allows how many minutes For the arrival of the first arriving engine company at a fire suppression incident
Four minutes or less
1710 allows how many minutes For the deployment of a first alarm assignment at a fire suppression incident
Eight minutes or less
NFPA 1710 allows how many minutes for the arrival of the unit with first responder or higher level capability at an emergency medical incident
Four minutes or less
NFPA 1710 allows how many minutes for the arrival Of an advanced life support unit at an emergency medical incident, when the service is provided by the fire department without compromising safety
Eight minutes or less
The fire department shall establish a performance objective of not less than how many percent for the achievement of each response time objective and NFPA 1710
90%
What is usually the most effective strategy to produce loss of lives and property damage on a working fire
An offensive primary interior attack
At approximately how many minutes into the fire sequence does the hypothetical room of origin flash over
10 minutes
When does extension outside of the room begin during the fire sequence
At the point of flash over in the room of origin
NFPA (blank), standard for the organization and deployment of fire suppression operations, emergency medical operations, and special operations to the public by volunteer fire department
1720
What is the rate of civilian deaths per 1000 fires when the fire is confined to the room of origin
4.91
What is the rate of civilian deaths per 1000 fires when the fire extends beyond the room, but confined to the floor of origin
17.54
What is the rate of civilian deaths per 1000 fires when the fire extends beyond the floor of origin
27.77
What is the portion of the structure of that is relatively safe from fire in the products of combustion
Area of refuge
What are the activities associated With confining and extinguishing a fire
Fire control
What is a Birdseye view of the structure with the roof removed showing the walls, doors, stairs, and so on
Floor plan
What is the first priority during all emergency operations that address the safety of occupants and emergency responders
Life safety
What is a lock container on the premises that can be opened by the fire department containing preplanning information, material safety data sheets, names and phone numbers of key personnel, and keys that allow emergency responders access to the property
Lock box
What is a Birdseye view of the property showing existing structures for the purpose of pre-incident planning, such as primary access points, barriers to access, utilities, water supply, and so on
Plot plan
What is preparing for operations at the scene of a given hazard or occupants
Pre incident planning
What is the fact-finding part of the pre incident planning process in which the facility is visited to gather information regarding the building and its contents property conservation the efforts to reduce primary and secondary damage
Pre-incident survey
What is a document that provides emergency responders with vital information pertaining to a particular Occupancy
Quick access pre fire plan
What is an organized directive that establishes a standard course of action
Standard operating procedure SOP
What is selecting a small, interior room, with no or a few windows, and taking refuge there
Shelter in place
What are locations where there are unusual Hazards, or where an incident would likely over load the departments resources, or where there is a need for inter-agency cooperation to mitigate the hazard
Target hazard
