Chapter 16 Flashcards
The ROE interrogate the
fire fighter into the risk assessment decision making process
Fire fighters and the company officers are the member at
greatest risk for injury or death and often will be the first to identify unsafe conditions and practices.
Rule 1
Size up your tactical area of operation
Rule 2
Determine the occupant survival profile
Fire fighters save lives through
aggressive search and rescue operations by first arriving fire companies. Unfortunately these activities also generate the greatest risk of line of duty injury and death
The firefighter and IC must factor
Growing fire conditions
resources on scene
the time needed to completer a rescue
into the decision to conduct and support primary search and rescue operations
Rule 3
Do not risk your life for lives or property that cannot be saved.
Numerous NIOSH fire fighter fatality reports cite cases
where fire fighters were killed while operating in buildings where fire conditions would be clearly defined as defensive fires
Rule 4
Extend Limited Risk to protect savable property.
The key concept in this rule is savable. No building is worth the life of a fire fighter.
Rule 5
Extend vigilance and measured Risk to protect and rescue savable lives.
Being alert and watchful means
continually assessing fire conditions throughout the rescue event.
During search and rescue operations, crews
must remain vigilant to changing fire conditions that may increase the risk to them or prevent survival of occupants.
Rule 6
Go in together, stay together, come out together
Crew integrity
means fire fighters stay together as a team of two or more. A critical element for fire fighters survival is crew integrity
The ultimate responsibility for enforcing the principle of crew integrity and ensuring that no member get separated or lost rest with
the company officer or lead buddy team member.
If reconnection is not accomplished after 3 radio attempts or reconnection does not take place within 1 minute
a mayday should be declared
Rule 7
Maintain continuous awareness of your air supply, situation, location and fire conditions
NFPA 1404
Standard for fire service Respiratory protection training
NFPA 1500
Standard on Fire department occupational safety and health program. requires standardized IDLH exiting be practice when the scab cylinder reaches a level of 600L
NFPA 1852
Standard on selection care, and maintenance of Open Circuit SCBA
Major benchmarks for checking air supply include the following points
Before entry After going up or down stairs before entering and searching a room After exiting a room After going down a hallway or aisle Before and after doing a labor demanding task
Fire fighters must conduct a
through and detail check out of the assigned SCBA at the start of each shift
The national Near miss reporting system list situation awareness as the
most commonly reported cause of a life threatening near miss events
Rule 8
Constantly monitor fire ground communications for critical radio reports
Portable radios are the
lifeline for fire fighter survival.
Rule 9
You are required to report unsafe practices or conditions that can harm you. Stop, Evaluate, and decide
Rule 10
You are required to abandon your position and retreat before deteriorating conditions can harm you
Fire fighters should understand that an emergency exit from a
building often takes longer than it took to get into the interior operating position and that conditions will be worse.
Rule 11
Declare a mayday as soon as you think you are in danger
An early mayday must be declared and fire fighters should provide the IC with
Their name Company Location Air supply Situation along with any other critical information that will aid rescuers in locating them quickly
Mayday is a term reserved
for situation where a fire fighter is experiencing a life threatening emergency
Emergency traffic should be utilized
for other emergency on the fire ground, such as
evacuating a building
live wires down
discovery of a hazardous situation.
