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Chapter 15 Flashcards

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What two programs provided the foundation for the national incident management system?

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FIRE SCOPE, Southern California

Fire Ground Commander program, Phoenix Arizona

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How did FIRESCOPE and Fire Ground Commander fit together to make NIMS?

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Phoenix’s Fire Ground Commander focused on small to medium urban emergencies and Southern California’s FIRESCOPE focused on large-scale woodland fires.

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Local emergency response agencies were required to adopt ICS to remain eligible for _____.

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Federal disaster assistance

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National Incident Management System NIMS

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Is a core set of doctrines, concepts, principles, terminology and organizational processes. Allows for effective, efficient, and collaborative incident management across all emergency management and incident response organizations.

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NIMS has five components:

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  1. Preparedness
  2. Communications and information management
  3. Resource management
  4. Command and management
  5. Ongoing management and maintenance
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what is the primary purpose of the review process after multi company incidents?

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The primary purpose of the review process should always be educational and training tool, not to place blame for improper or deficient actions.

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Who conducts an incident review for a multi company incident?

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Incident Command

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What type of information should be gathered prior to the post incident review, in preparation?

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Set stage for review … building information including size, arrangement, construction type, date of construction, fire protection systems.

Try and gather as much information concerning the where, when, how fire started.

Review preincident plan compare to actual actions taken.

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How should the post incident critique be handled, what should you do? (7)

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1-Schedule as soon ask convenient after event.
2-Invite entire crew of any company that played a significant role.
3-Begin presentation of background and basic information about the incident.
4 -First an officer should describe situation present on arrival/actions taken.
5 -Successive companies should explain what they saw and what they did
6-Draw out the incident, apparatus, hose, building
Initial strategy, standard operating procedures
7 -Officer directing critique should provide his/her perspective including both positive and negative factors, praise widely distributed

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What is the best way to evaluate effectiveness of procedures?

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The best way to evaluate the effectiveness of procedures is to determine whether following them actually produced the anticipated results.

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What is the last step in conducting incident review?

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To write up a summary of the incident for departmental records.

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What ICS position is always filled?

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Incident command- officer is responsible for completing all tasks that are not delegated.

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When establishing ICS at an incident what should be the goal for use of this model?

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The goal is to use ICS structure to assign all functions that must be performed at that incident. The command structure for an incident should only be as large as the incident requires.

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ICS includes three levels of command.

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Strategic level- incident command, strategy

Tactical level- objectives define actions needed to achieve strategic goals. Tactical level supervisor would manage a group of resources to accomplish the tactical objective. i.e. division supervisor

Task level- these assignments are the actions required to achieve the tactical objectives, where the physical work is actually accomplished i.e. searching for victims, operating hose lines

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Incident Commander is responsible for three strategic priorities.

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Life safety
Incident stabilization
Property conservation

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The first arriving company level officer is three options when arriving at the incident and assuming command:

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  1. Investigation- nothing showing
  2. Fast attack- requires immediate action to save a life
  3. Command Mode- event so large/dangerous requires immediate establishment of command by first arriving company officer, initiate a technical worksheet, direct incoming units
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The fast attack mode ends when one of the following occurs:

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Situation stabilized

Situations not stabilized, company officer must withdraw to exterior and establish command post.

Command is transferred to another officer

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In Command mode the company officer is starting a tactical worksheet and directing incoming units. What should the rest of the company work on?

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Initiate fire suppression/emergency action with one member acting as CO

Work under another company officer

Stay with initial incident commander perform staff functions

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There are nine functions of command

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  1. Determine strategy
  2. Selecting incident tactics
  3. Setting action plan
  4. Developing ICS organization
  5. Managing resources
  6. Coordinating resource activities
  7. Providing for scene safety
  8. Releasing information about the incident
  9. Coordinating with outside agencies
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300

What are the immediate Incident Command functions, that must be stated as part of his size-up?

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Determining strategy
Selecting incident tactics
Setting an action plan

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300

Once the initial actions are underway, the incident commander works on the next four functions:

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  1. Developing ICS
  2. Managing resources
  3. Coordinating resource activities
  4. Providing for scene safety
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300

Once the incident action plan is fully operating, the incident commander works in the last two functions:

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Releasing information about the scene

Coordinating with outside agencies

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300

What is the procedure for transferring command?

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  1. Officers assuming command communicates with IC, face to face preferred
  2. Brief new IC
    a. Incident conditions
    b. tactical worksheet & Action Plan,
    c. progress towards tactical objectives,
    d. Safety,
    e. deployment/assignment of companies,
    f. need for more resources
  3. Command is transferred after new IC briefed
  4. Transfer of command is communicated to incident
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300

What is the origin of two into out?

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An OSHA ruling in 1996 that said firefighters working within a structure were operating in IDLH. This meant fire departments must comply with OSHA regulation 29 CFR 1910. 134, which requiring SCBA be worn in IDLH and firefighters must enter as pair at minimum. Another team of 2 firefighters remained available outside.

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Safety officer

What Command Staff always report to Command and can’t have their duties delegated to another section?

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Responsible for ensuring safety issues are managed effectively at the incident scene. Safety officer has the authority to stop or suspend operations when unsafe situations occur, must inform command immediately.

Safety, Liaison, PIO

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Liaison officer

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Incident command point of contact for representatives from outside agencies.
Liaison area should be adjacent to but not inside the command post

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Public information officer

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Responsible for gathering and releasing incident information to news media and other appropriate indices.

A media briefing location should be established that is separate from the command post

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302

What four standard components are defined in the ICS model?

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Operations
Planning
Logistics
Finance/administration

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A person in charge of one of the four major sections are known as_____.

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ICS general staff

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Operations

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Responsible for the management of all actions that are directly related to the control of the incident.

At most structure fires incident command retains operations

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Planning

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Responsible for the collection, evaluation, dissemination, and use of information related to the incident. Status boards, preincident plans, construction drawings are all tools of Planning section.

Planning section also responsible for developing and updating Incident Action Plan IAP

reports directly to the incident commander

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Incident Action Plan

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Basic component of ICS; all incidents required to have an action plan. IAP outlines strategic objectives and states how emergency operations are conducted.

A written IAP is required for large or complex incidents that have extended duration.

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Logistics

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Responsible for providing supplies, services, facilities, and materials during the incident. Reports directly to the incident commander, routinely performed by personnel assigned to a support service division.

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Finance/administration

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Responsible for the administrative, accounting, and financial aspects of an incident, as well as any legal issues that may arise. This function is not activated at most incidents.

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How are exposures designated at a structure fire?

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Areas adjacent to a burning building are called exposures. Exposures take the same letter as the adjacent side of the building, Exposure B or Exposure D. If the building burning is part of a row of buildings, the buildings to the left B1, B2 etc

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National Response Framework NRF

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Comprehensive, national, all hazards approach to domestic incident response that describe specific authorities and best practices for managing incidents. Builds on NIMS.

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divisions, groups, and units are all ____level management elements

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Tactical level

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Division represents a _____, Group represents _____, and Unit refers to______

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Division represents a geographic area
Group represents a functional operation
Unit is a generic term and can mean either

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Groups are responsible for performing____

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An assignment, ventilation group

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Units

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An organizational element with functional responsibilities for specific incident activity, such as planning or logistics, or specific geographic assignment.

Air supply unit or air supply

Smallest organizational element within the incident management system.

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Branch

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Supervisory level established in either the operations or logistics function to provide an appropriate span of control.

If span of control is still a problem even after the incident commander has established divisions/groups/units, then IC can establish branches to place a Branch Director in charge of a number of division/groups/units.

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Standard procedure to manage uncommitted resources at the scene of an incident.

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Staging

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What is the difference between level I staging and level II staging?

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Level I staging, predesignated units respond directly to scene, later arriving units remain uncommitted and wait for instructions.

Level II staging, used for greater alarms, directs responding companies to a designated standby location away from the immediate scene. Designated officer supervises level II staging area with the staging radio identification and assigns units from staging area as requested by the incident commander.

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Task force vs Strike team

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Task force: 2 to 5 single resources assembled to accomplish a specific task operating under Task Force Leader. i.e. an engine and a brush truck

Strike team: five units of the same type with an assigned leader, Strike Team Leader. Commonly used for woodland fires i.e. five brush trucks, respond to a designated location and continue together

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