Chapter 2: Organizational Structure Flashcards
Assistance from agencies, industries, or fire departments that are not part of the agency having jurisdiction over the incident.
Additional Resources
Relates to the empowered duties of an official to perform certain tasks. In the case of a fire inspector, the level of an inspector’s authority is com-mensurate with the enforcement obligations of the governing body.
Authority
Written agreement between two or more agencies to automatically dispatch predetermined resources to any fire or other emergency reported in the geographic area covered by the agreement. These areas are generally located near jurisdictional boundaries or in jurisdictional “islands.”
Automatic Aid
Person whose primary employ-ment is as a firefighter within a fire department. Also spelled Career Fire Fighter.
Career Firefighter
Order of rank and authority in the fire and emergency services.
Chain of command
Political subdivision of a state, province, or territory for administrative purposes and public safety. Also known as Parish.
County
National level of governments such as the U.S. and Canada.
Federal
Designated geographic area where fire protection is provided, usually through a supporting tax or an area where fire prevention codes are enforced.
Fire District
Organizational principle that allows workers to report to more than one supervi-sor without violating the unity of command principle; workers report to their primary supervisor for most of their activities but report to a second supervisor for activities that relate to an assigned function only, and both supervisors coordinate closely.
Functional Supervisor
Functional division of the lowest level of local government.
Municipal
Reciprocal assistance from one fire and emergency services agency to another during an emer-gency, based upon a prearranged agreement; generally made upon the request of the receiving agency
Mutual Aid
Person who responds to fires and emergencies and is paid for the responses they make on a response-to-response basis.
Paid on Call Personnel
The process of going around a link in the chain of command to deal with an issue.
Sidestepping
Notifying one’s supervi-sor that one wishes to take an issue to the supervisor’s supervisor.
Skip level notification
Territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation whose rights are defined by a constitution.
State/Provincial
