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Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
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What is PAR

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Personnel Accountability Report

  • a formal accounting system for the location, status, and condition of each crew assigned to an incident
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What are the 7 key Issues addressed by ICAW

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  1. Accountability
  2. Outline of emergency site plan
  3. Plan of attack
  4. Progress
  5. Available resources
  6. Transfer of Command
  7. Final report
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3
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What are the 4 Command priorities of Fire Command

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  • Safety
  • Rescue
  • Fire Control
  • Salvage
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4
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What are the Ten Command functions?

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  1. Assume and effective command position and confirm operations
  2. Rapidly size up the situation
  3. Initiate, maintain and control the communications process
  4. Identify the overall strategy and develop an attack plan and assign crews
  5. Develop an effective fire ground organizaton
  6. Provide continuing command within the framework of departamental SOP’s and SOG’s
  7. Coordinate Transfer of Command as required
  8. Review, evaluate, and revise attack plan as required
  9. Request and assign additional crews as required
  10. Terminate operations/command and return crews to service
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5
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First arriving officer shall:

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Assume Command

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6
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What are the benchmarks required for each event?

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  1. Primary Search complete
  2. Fire Under Control
  3. Secondary Search complete
  4. Fire Out
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7
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In an escalating event who assumes the role of Incident Commander?

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Second arriving District Chief

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8
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When must PAR be provided?

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  • When entering a building
  • When exiting a building
  • Whenever command asks for it
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When do you have PAR?

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When you can TOUCH, SEE, or HEAR your crew members

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10
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List and describe the levels of organization on the fire ground

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  • Strategic levels
    • Command functions
  • Tactical levels
    • Sector functions
  • Task levels
    • tasks of the firefighters within a sector
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When does ‘Fast Attack’ mode cease?

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  • Incident is stabilized
  • The crew is forced to withdraw due to hazardous conditions
  • Incident command is transferred

Should fast attack fail, IC must leave the building and establish a stationary command post or transfer command.

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What information is included in the initial report?

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  • Unit identification
  • Size up
  • Summary of Fire/emergency conditions
  • Initial Plan of Action
  • Identify who is assuming fire command
  • Where Fire command is located
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Who assumes the role of Safety Officer?

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First arriving District Chief

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What are the advantages of the Incident Command System?

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  • Flexible for any size emergency
  • Systematic approach lessens confusion
  • Allows for informed decisions
  • Deployment of resources is easier
  • Provides accountability for all resources
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Define Incident Commander

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The person with the over all responsibility and authority for the management of second or multiple alarm incidents

The I.C. is responsible for supplying resources to assist the Fire Commander

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16
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Describe ‘Command Mode’

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First arriving officer remains Staged at the apparatus, assuming Incident Command: assigning tasks to unit personnel, communicating with other responding units, and adapting the Incident Action Plan as needed.

17
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Define Fire Commander

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  • The person with the overall responsibility to manage dispatched resources at an emergency event
  • This person is responsible for developing the initial strategy, determining tactical priorities, and assigning personnel to sectors for the successful mitigation of the emergency
18
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What are the Three modes of Command?

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  • Command mode
  • Mobile Command
    • Nothing Showing
    • Fast Attack
19
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Describe the Mobile Command mode: Nothing Showing

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  • The officer performs a reconnasissance and directs the other responding units to level 1 staging
  • Ability to transfer command to next incoming officer
20
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What is the primary objective of the ICS?

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Management of assigned resources for the effective and efficient control of any emergency regardless of size or complexity

21
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Describe Reconnaissance factors, to gain information:

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Information received from other officers on the scene, or others assigned specifically to get the information requested by command.

  • Crews inside the structure relay fire, smoke and heat information
  • Info gathered by crews from occupants exiting the structure, bystanders, and other non-departmental services involved in the event
22
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How should Command be transfered?

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Face to Face

23
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When will Fire Command/ Incident Commander terminate the incident?

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When incident no longer requires any EFRS resources

24
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Describe the two types of Staging

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  • Level 1
    • Initially dispatched units may report their location to FC
    • FC may request up to 2 additional units before upgrading to a 2nd alarm
  • Level 2
    • First arriving officer @ level 2 staging area becomes Staging Officer
    • FC will request additional crews directly through staging officer
    • Crews identified as major/ minor crews
25
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What information is requred for Transfer of Command?

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  • Current attack plan
  • Deployment of crews
  • the Effectiveness of attack
  • the need for additional crews
  • ICAW
26
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What questions must teh Fire Commander ask to provide Continuing Command?

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  • Is command established
  • What is the effect of the implemented stragegy and tactics
  • Are sectors able to accomplish their tasks
  • Is the plan still effective
  • Do I know where my personnel are (PAR)
  • Should the plan be changed
  • How long will this event continue
  • Does this plan follow department SOP and SOG’s
27
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Define: Strike Team

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A combination of a number of units that are all of the same type and purpose

28
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Define: Task Force

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Combination of single resources within the span of control amassed for a task

29
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Define a single resource

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Personnel, vehicle, and/or equipment is considered a single resource

30
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Describe a Hold-In-Place strategy

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Initiated when safety is uncertain and immediate evacuation must be initiated ( ie: bomb threat)

31
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Describe a Defensive Exterior Attack

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Inititated when fire conditions are unsafe to entre the structure. Lives are not threatened, and/or the property is un-savable

32
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Describe an Offensive Interior attack

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Initiated when Fire conditions are reasonably safe to do so

  • Fire conditions must be closely monitored nothing the position of interior crews
  • Preparations must be made to quickly switch to a defensvie exterior attack
33
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List the strategic choices available to Fire Command

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Offensive Interior attack

Defensive Exterior attack

Hold-In-Place non-attack

34
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Describe Visusal factors for gaining information

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Information Fire Command can see from the Command Post

  • Type of building
    • construction, occupancy, obvious outside hazards
  • Location, volume, density, velocity and colour of smoke coming fom the structure
  • Weather
35
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Describe the mobile command mode: Fast Attack

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The first arriving officer assuming command directs their personnel in an offensive attack to bring the fire quickly under control.

36
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What are three methods to gain information on the Fire ground

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  • Visual factors
  • Reconnaissance factors
  • Pre-fire assessment factors
37
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Describe Pre-Fire assessment factors for gathering information

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Pre-fire planning information that is determined in advance of the incident

  • Life hazards
  • numbers and locations of occupants
  • access to the structure
  • Floor plans
  • nature of interior and exterior exposure
38
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Fire (15 decks)

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