Fire Officer 3rd Edition chapter 1 Flashcards
The professional qualification standards for fire officers are documented in NFPA
NFPA 1021 Standards for fire officer professional qualifications
At the fire officer one level what is the emphasis placed on
The emphasis is placed on accomplishing to the apartments goals and objectives by working through subordinate so achieve the desired results
The fire officer is part of the management and is responsible for the contact device. What most office a reference
Policies procedures and rules
Do US via service originated as communities of citizens who responded?
When fires broke out
In 24 BC the Roman emperor Augustus Cesar and created the first fire department. What was the fire fire department called?
Familia publica
What did Richard new shed create
First hand power water pump
During Colonial days Hope your own neighborhoods to discover fires
Fire warden or night man
What were the first building codes developed?
Egypt focused on preventing building collapse building codes and effective in preventing limiting containing fires
How are volunteer department funded funded?
Donations in subscriptions
What do attributes did the first firefighters need
Muscular strength and endurance to pass bucket or Operate hand pump or
What are the four department management principles
Unity of command
span of control
division of labor
discipline
What are the three ways to look at the organization of the fire department
Function
geography
staffing
They obviously there’s no in the department regulations policies in standard operating guidelines is essential for
He safe and harmonious work environment
What are ethical choices based on
A value system
What other for functions of managing
Planning
organizing
leading
controlling
Where are the administrative duties FIRE OFFICER 2
Evaluating subordinate job performance
correcting unacceptable performance and
completing formal performance appraisal on each member
Fire officer to includes what?
Developing a project our divisional budget including purchasing soliciting and rewarding bed and preparing news releases and reports are the supervisors
What is the managing fire officer more engaged with
Organizations and groups
What process remains essential when operating at emergency scenes
A rigid command and control process
Away from pyrazines departments are using concepts of?
Employee empowerment Decentralized decision making
delegation
What percent is firefighting activities performed by fire companies
5%
What are the primary cause of death for firefighters with any burning structure
Flash over and structural collapse
Five hired as a future must?
Look beyond the physical attributes of an individual and match each individual strength with the organizational needs
Assistant or division chief
A mid-level chief Who often has a function area of responsibility says his training in answers directly to the fire chief
Battalion chief
Usually the first level of fire chief also called a district chief these teeth are often in charge of running calls and supervising multiple stations are districts within the city if Italian TV is usually the officer in charge on a single alarm fire
Who is usually in charge on a single alarm working fire
Battalion chief
Chain of command
The superior support natatory relationship that starts at the top of the organizational hierarchy and extends to the lowest levels
Chiefs trumpet( bugle)
An obsolete amplification device that is enabled a fire chief to give orders to firefighters during an emergency a precursor to the bull horn and portable radio
What is the predecessor of the chief trumpet?
Bull horn and portable radio
Consensus document
A code or standard developed through agreement between people representing a different organization and interest
What is an example of a consensus document?
NFPA codes and standards
Controlling definition?
Restraining regulating governing counteracting overpowering
Decision making
The process of identifying problems in opportunities in retyping them
Division of labor
The production process in which each worker repeats one step over and over, it’s even greater faith as he is in the use of time and knowledge, the formal assignment of authority and responsibility to job holders
Fire chief
The highest ranking officer in charge of it fire department, the individual assigned the responsibility for management in control of all matters and concerns pertaining to the fire service organization
Fire Mark
Historically and identification symbol money building to get firefighters not at the building was insured by a company that would pay for these things for another fire
Incident command system ICS
A system that defies the roles responsibilities to be assumed by personnel in the operating procedures to be used as an individual and direction of emergency operations
What is another name for the incident command system
Incident management system
Leadership
A complex process by which a person influence others to accomplish the mission task large active and directs organization anyway that makes it more cohesive incoherent
Leading
Cutting or directing any course of action
Where does the term”Managing fire officer” Confirm
BIAFC officer development handbook task and expectations for the fire officer 2
The fire officer is encouraged to acquire?
Appropriate level training experience yourself development and education for CHIEF FIRE OFFICER DESIGNATION
Organizing
Putting resources together into an orderly functional and structured whole
Planning
Developing a scheme program or method that is worked out before hand to accomplish in objective
Rules and regulations
Directives develop by various organization and government Authorize organizations to implement the wall that has been passed by the governing body
Span of control
The maximum number of personnel or activities that can be effectively controlled by one individual
What is the type of rain or a span of control
Three - seven
Where can the expectations if I was there to be found
The IAFC officer development in about
What are standard operating procedures
Written organizational directors that establish a prescribe specific operational and orientation methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designate a rations our actions
Supervising fire officer
The description from the high AFC opposite development handbook for the task and expectations for a fire officer one
Title for fire officer 1 Vs Fire officer 2
Fire officer one- Supervising fire officer
Fire officer 2- Managing fire officer
Both are encouraged to acquire the appropriate levels of training experience and self development and education to prepare for the fire grid officer designation
Unity of command
The management and SAP three subordination have only one direct supervisor so that a decision can be traced back to subordinate to the manager who originated it
Discipline
A moral mental or physical state in which all ranks respond to the will of the leader
What is another name for guidelines as a department that for firefighters to work with him
Discipline
Lt is an example of
Supervising fire officer or fire officer one
Once an emergency and say and has been mitigated what is the fire officer one expected to do
Preliminary investigation to determine the origin and cause,
secure the scene to preserve evidence,
conduct a post incident analysis
Fire officer three and four channel refer to what?
Chief officer positions
Fire officer three any large department may be
Battalion or district chief
In a small department fire office at three maybe
Deputy our assistant chief
Where was the foundation of company after practice originated
World war two
And have NFPA standard 1021 For company officers Was adopted and what year
1976 and expended on 2003
How in 2003 did the IAFC expand the company officer development
Developed officer development handbook to encourage company officers to acquire appropriate levels of training experience of development in education throughout their professional journey to prepare for the CPSE (Center for Public Safety excellence), CFO, and The pinnacle of professional development
Who serves as the individual who supervises a single Fire suppression unit or a small administrative group with any fire department.
Company level task functioning as the initial driving off for an emergency see
Fire officer one
What is the first step in a progressive sequence and generally associate it with an arriving officer?
Fire officer one
The professional qualification standards for fire officers are documented it in NFPA?
NFPA 1021
NFPA 1021 standard for fire officer professional qualifications
4 levels of fire officer
A department that uses full-time career personnel along with volunteer are paid on call personnel is referred to as
Combination department
Formal restructure almost by department was adopted from the
Roman military
Where did the first document fire in North America occur?
Jamestown Virginia 1607
Where was the first establish fire regulations in North America that band chimneys and thatched roofs
Boston Massachusetts
AD. Emperor NERO established what?
Fire protectors. A group of 7000 Friedman responsible for fire fighting by a preventing in building inspections
What did Colonial firefighters have?
Buckets and fire hook. Homeowners were required to keep water outside their door and bring them to the scene of a fire
What happened in 1871
Two major fires one in Chicago and Wisconsin
Peshtigo Wisconsin
Deadliest fire in United States history
2200 people died
What did combustible engines do for the fire service
Allowed communities to have machine powered pumpers
In the United States fire department Somewhere is responding to a fire every?
23 seconds
After peshtigo and Chicago fire
Communities developed straight to building and fire codes
is vital to have for a Officer to coordinate the fire fighting efforts effectively
Communication
What is the most important resource on the fire scene
Firefighters
What does building codes govern ?
Construction materials and frequently built-in fire prevention and safety measures
Supervising and managing officers( Captain) Report to
Administrative fire officer
What does the chain of command ensure?
Task is carried out in a uniform and her
A complex process of influencing others to accomplish a task is an act of?
Leadership
Written organizational directives that established or prescribe specific organization or administrative methods to be followed routinely for performance of designated operations and actions
SOG
The first volunteer fire company was established where
Philadelphia and the leader ship of Benjamin Franklin
Who import it the first fire engines from England
George Washington
Alexandria Virginia 1765
Who is responsible with protecting the welfare of the public against common threat
Government
The process of identifying problems in opportunities and resolving them
Decision making
Fire officer 1 and 2 are divided into
Administrative emergency and non-emergency activities
The fire chief is accountable to
Governing body such a city Council County commission the mayor and city manager
