Fire Officer Tactics: FF Survival (Ch 11)

Question 1

Hazard awareness questions

Answer 1

1. What is the occupancy?
2. Where are the occupants? (once out, slow down)
3. Where is the fire? (attic, cellar, voids,)
4. How do we get in?
5. How do we get out when things go wrong?
   
   • Never put yourself in a position where you are depending on someon else to come get you.
   • Always know where your escape route is.
   • Always know where your 2nd escape route is.
6. What is happening to the building?
   
   • Backdraft ptotential?
   • Flashover?
   • Structural stability?

Question 2

Steps to take if cut off by fire

Answer 2

1. Find refuge. Close as many doors between you and the fire as possible.
2. Call for help by every means possible.
3. Seek another escape route or refuge.

Question 3

Mayday situations

Answer 3

• Injury that prevents immediate escape
• SCBA low air with exit beyond range
• Entrapped for more than 30 seconds
• Disoriented for more than 30 seconds
• Missing or unaccounted for member 60+ seconds
• Unconscious FF or life threatening injury or medical
• Collapse, backdraft, flashover, other sudden development that make conditions untenable or blocked escape route
• Imminent collapse that would endanger members.

Question 4

RIT size up (beyond COAL WAS WEALTH)

Answer 4

1. Request size up of bld. by radio while en route (size, construction, occupancy, fire location)
2. Monitor tac for Maydays
3. At scene, perform RIT size up of bld, occupancy, fire location
4. Obtain bld. floor plan, command chart, know locations of units and their routes of access
5. Monitor the progress of operations

Question 5

Norman’s 3 rules of survival

Answer 5

1. Never end up where you’re depending on someont to come get you
2. Always know you escape route
3. Always know your secondary escape route

Question 6

4 keys to successful RIT operation

Answer 6

1. People
2. Policies
3. Tools
4. Techniques