Major Incident Procedure

Question 1

The LESLP major incident manual defines a major incident as:

Answer 1

“An event or situation with a range of
serious consequences, which requires special arrangements to be implemented by one or more
emergency responder agencies”.

Question 2

For the Fire and Rescue Service, examples could be, but are not limited to ?

Answer 2

For the Fire and Rescue Service, examples could be, but are not limited to:
* The initial rescue of a large number of casualties.
* The involvement, either directly or indirectly, of large numbers of people.
* The need for large scale combined resources of the emergency services.
* The mobilisation and organising of the emergency services and supporting agencies to cater for
the threat of death, serious injury or homelessness to a large number of people.
* The incident necessitates a recall of specialist staff groups.
* The incident, event or situation requires an enhanced level of management coordination.
* The incident, event or situation threatens the organisation’s ability to perform its critical functions.
* The handling of a large number of enquiries likely to be generated, both from the public and the
news media, normally to the Police.

Question 3

It is important that incident commanders at all levels are able to recognise and declare major incident procedure where the activities required are likely to be beyond business as usual operations and is likely to involve, What?

Answer 3

Serious harm, damage, disruption or risk to human life, welfare, essential services,
environment or national security.

Question 4

To declare a major incident, the incident commander should send the following assistance message to Brigade Control:?

Answer 4

“This is a Major Incident, {Tactical Mode}…”

Question 5

4 To facilitate the functional major incident responsibilities on scene, on receipt of the message to declare a major incident, Brigade control must mobilise the following predetermined attendance as perPolicy number 412 – Mobilising policy:

Answer 5

• 6 x Pumping appliances (including 1 x 135, 2 x SubO/StnO)
• 1 x Fire rescue unit
• 2 x Command units
• 2 x Station commander
• 1 x Group commander
• 1 x Press liaison officer (exclusive)

Question 6

Following the declaration of a major incident what must be sent?

Answer 6

A METHANE message must be sent to
Brigade control as soon as possible; where possible, this should be an agreed tri-service message.

Question 7

The Joint Doctrine sets out five principles to be applied by responders when they are determining an appropriate course of action in coordinating the response to an emergency. These principles will often, but not always, be followed in the order in which they are presented. What are the 5 principles?

Answer 7

. Co-locate
.Communicate
.Co-ordinate
.Jointly understand risk
.Shared situational awarness