OPM 600 Flashcards
- Who adopted the Incident Management System? When? 600.00
a. Broward County Fire Chiefs Association
b. Spring 1996
- The incident management system was designed to meet the requirements of what NFPA? 600.01
a. 1561
- The ultimate control and direction of all resources falls under: 600.01
a. Incident Commander, except for a unified command
- The ICS Organizational structure develops in a: 600.01
a. Modular fashion based on kind and size of incident
- Define span of control: 600.01
a. The number of subordinates one supervisor can manage effectively
- What is the acceptable limit in emergency situations? 600.01
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- What are the four sections under command? 600.01
a. Operations
b. Planning
c. Logistics
d. Finance/Administration
- Define Operations: 600.01
a. All activities directed toward hazard reduction and control
- Define Planning: 600.01
a. Collection, evaluation, and dissemination of information
- Define Logistics: 600.01
a. Provides support needs to the incident
- Define Finance/Administration 600.01
a. Responsible for all cost incurred at the incident
- Who is included in the Command Staff? 600.01
a. Safety Officer
b. Liaison Officer
c. PIO
d. IC Aide
- Define Command Sequence: 600.01
a. Standardized sequential thought process
- What are the four parts of the Command Sequence? 600.01
a. Incident Priorities
b. Size Up
c. Goals and Objectives
d. Tactical Operations
- What are the incident priorities? 600.01
a. Life Safety
b. Incident Stabilization
c. Property Conservation
- Define Life Safety:
a. Actions which reduce the threat of life or injury
- Define Incident Stabilization:
a. Activities designed to stop the escalation of the incident
- Define Property Conservation:
a. Efforts to reduce the long-term economic and social impact
- What are the goals in relation to incident priorities:
a. Rescue
b. Exposure
c. Confinement
d. Extinguishment
e. Overhaul
- What is considered to be the solutions to the problems
a. Tactical operations
- What is the designation of the Command Post?
a. CP
- What is also located in the Command Post?
a. Planning function
b. Field communications center
- What can be co-located with the command post?
a. The incident base
- What is the Incident Base?
a. Location where primary support personnel activities are performed
b. Houses all equipment and personnel support operations
- What may also be located at the Incident Base?
a. Logistics section
- Can the incident base be re-located?
a. Normally not
- The staging area is established by who?
a. Operations Section Officer
- Who assigns a Staging Area Manager?
a. Operations Section Officer
- What is the staging area manager responsible for?
a. Checking in coming resources
b. Dispatching of resources
c. Requests for services from Logistics Section
- The implementation of the action plan will be done under the direction of:
a. Operation Section Officer
- The Operations Section Officer is normally drawn from:
a. Agency having greatest jurisdictional involvement
- What is a landing zone?
a. Temporary locations where helicopters can land and take off
- What is a Heli-base?
a. Location where helicopters are staged for possible action
- What is a task force?
a. Combination of resources with common communication and a leader
- What is a strike team?
a. Set number of resources of the same kind and type and a leader
- Position: Incident Commander – Title:
a. Incident Commander
- Position: Command Staff – Title:
a. Officer
- Position: Section – Title:
a. Section Officer
- Position: Branch – Title:
a. Director
- Position: Division – Title:
a. Supervisor
- Position: Group – Title:
a. Supervisor
- Position: Task Force – Title:
a. Leader
- Position: Strike Team – Title:
a. Leader
- Position: Single Resource – Title:
a. Company Officer
- Who recommends to the IC the need for additional Divisions/Groups?
a. Section Officers
- What is the primary reason for using Divisions and Groups?
a. Safety of personnel
b. Maintaining span of control
- Divisions are assigned to specific:
a. Geographical locations
- Structural Divisions will be designated by letter for:
a. For the side of the building
- Structural Divisions will be designed by the number for:
a. Floors
- Groups will be identified by:
a. The function they perform (salvage group)
- When are Branches implemented?
a. Span of control begins to become complex
b. The incident has two or more distinctly different operations (fire, hazmat)
- Branches report to whom?
a. Section Officers
b. Should communicate on different channel
- Define RIT:
a. Two fresh firefighters
b. Staged at CP
c. May stage near the various divisions
- The first unit to arrive at the scene of an incident must transmit:
a. An arrival and size up report along with establishment of command
- The initial Incident Commander shall remain in Command until:
a. Command is transferred or passed
b. Incident is stabilized and terminated
- The first arriving unit activates the Command process by giving:
a. An initial radio report
- Identification and location of Command shall be by:
a. Geographical location or well-known landmark
- Can unit numbered Command locations be used?
a. No
- Single company incident:
a. Can be single unit OR engine and rescue
- If two incidents on the same street, what is command designator?
a. “hundred block”
- The establishment of Command is a top priority for the following units:
a. Chief Officer
b. Member or unit without tactical capabilities
- Four modes of Command:
a. Nothing showing mode
b. Fast attack mode
c. Command mode
d. Defensive mode
- What is nothing showing mode?
a. Generally require investigation
b. Utilize portable radio to command incident
- What is Fast attack mode?
a. Situation that require immediate action to stabilize and requires company officer assistance
b. Fast attack should not last more than a few minutes
- Fast attack mode ends with one of the following:
a. Situation is stabilized
b. Situation is not stabilized and company officer must withdraw
c. Command is transferred
- What are examples of why fast attack mode would be chosen?
a. Offensive fire attack
b. Critical life situations
c. Incident where the safety and welfare of firefighters is a major concern
- What is defensive mode?
a. When conditions or hazards preclude direct entry into the hazard zone
- The declaration of a defensive mode signals:
a. That complex operations will be involved
- What is command mode?
a. Incident by virtue of size, complexity, or potential for rapid escalation requires immediate, strong, direct, overall command
- Agency representatives from responding agencies shall report to:
a. The liaison officer at the command post
- Define Unity of Command:
a. Each individual being responsible to one supervisor
- How is command transferred?
a. Can be transferred by radio, but should be done face to face