Incident Communications

Question 1

At which fire ground incidents would Channel 1 be appropriate?

Answer 1

At any incident where communications is required

Question 2

At which fire ground incidents would Channel 2 be appropriate?

Answer 2

At any incident where channel 1 is likely to be congested with radio traffic and a command unit is in attendance

Question 3

At which fire ground incidents would Channel 3 be appropriate?

Answer 3

When operational staff are given specific incident ground tasks such as incident, sector or operational commanders

Question 4

At which fire ground incidents would Channel 5 be appropriate?

Answer 4

At any incident using subsurface London underground leaky feeder equipment

Question 5

At which fire ground incidents would Channel 6 be appropriate?

Answer 5

To be used between BA teams and BA ECOs

Question 6

When my firefighters use channel 3

Answer 6

When told to do so by the incident sector or operational commanders

Question 7

Who must that OIC inform if channel 2 is being used

Answer 7

The OIC must inform Brigade control via the main scheme radio