Princ&Prac Chp. 1 Flashcards
The ___ standard define four levels of fire officer
NFPA 1021
The Fire Officer 1 perform administrative duties and supervisory functions that are related to small group of fire department members. Typical administrative duties include ___, ____, ____, _____, and ____.
Record keeping,managing projects, preparing budgets requests, initiating and completing station maintenance and conducting preliminary accident investigations.
Supervisory duties include ___ and ___. (Reference F.O. 1)
Making work assignment and ensuring the health and safety procedures are followed
Nonemergency duties could include ___, ____, ___, ____, ___, and____. (Reference F.O. 1)
Pre-incident planning, providing company-level training, delivering, public education programs and responding to community inquiries.
Emergency duties include the ___, ____, ____,_____,____,and___. (Reference F.O. 1)
Ability to supervise a group, of fire fighters performing company level task, functioning as initial arriving officer,performing a size up, establishing the incident management system, developing and implementing I.A.P. , deploying resources and maintaining personnel accountability.
Firefighter 2 NFPA
1001
Fire Instructor 1 NFPA__
1041
There are ___ common forms of staffing fire organization, most discussions divide fire fighters into ___categories ___and___
4
2
Career and Volunteer
NFPA says there are ___ fire fighters in the United States. Of this total, approximately ___% are full time, career fire fighters ___% are volunteers
1.1 million
31%
69%
There are___ fire departments in the United States.
30,145
In 24 B.C., the Roman emperor ____ created what was probably the first fire department. Called the ______, it was composed of approximately 600 slaves who were stationed around the city to watch for and fight fires.
Augustus Caesar
Famila Publica
By about A.D. 60, under the ____, ____had been established as the fire protectors. This group of 7000 free men was responsible for fire-fighting,
emperor Nero
The Corps of Vigile
The first documented fire in North America occurred in___, in___.
Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607
In __, ___ established the first fire regulations in North America when it banned wood chimneys and thatched roofs.
1630, Boston, Massachusetts
Dutch colony of New York in___,___ not only banned wood chimneys and thatched roofs but also required that chimneys be swept out regularly.
1647, Governor Peter Stuyvesant
The first organized volunteer fire company was established in___. The Union Fire Company was formed in___, under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin.
Philadelphia
1735
___, imported one of the first fire engines from England, which he donated to the Alexandria (Virginia) Fire Department in 1765.
George Washington
October 8, 1871, when a fire started in a barn on the west side of the city. The fire department was already exhausted from fighting a four-block fire earlier in the day. Errors in judging the situation and signaling the alarm resulted in a delayed department response. The Great Chicago Fire burned through the city for 3 days Figure 1-1. When it was over, more than 2000 acres and 17,000 homes had been destroyed, the city had suffered more than $ 200 million in damage, 300 people were dead, and 90,000 were homeless.
SN
____ is the deadliest fire in United States history.
Peshtigo
___when___ developed the first such pumper in London, England. Dozens of individuals powered this type of pump,
1720
Richard Newsham
By___, more powerful, steam-powered pumpers had been developed and began to replace the hand-powered pumpers.
1829
The advent of the internal combustion engine in the early___ enabled most communities to have machine-powered pumpers.
1900s
_____, a fire fighter in New York City, developed the first fire hydrants in ____.
George Smith
1817
The introduction of public call boxes in____, during the___ was a major advance.
Washington, D.C.
1850s
In 1678, Boston required that “tyle” or slate be used for all roofs. After British troops burned Washington, D.C., in 1814, codes prohibiting the building of wooden houses were adopted. Building codes also began to require the construction of a fire-resistive wall, or firewall, of brick or mortar between two buildings.
SN
Fire insurance companies were established in England soon after the____ to help residents and business owners cope with the financial loss from fires.
Great Fire of London in 1666,
Nevertheless, the most important resources on the fire scene remain the _____ and the determination to attack a fire.
knowledgeable, well-trained, physically capable fire fighters who have the ability
The organizational structure of a fire department consists of a ____.
chain of command.
Supervising and managing fire officers report directly to an____.
administrative fire officer
___ are responsible for managing the activities of several fire companies within a defined geographic area, usually in more than one fire station.
Battalion chiefs, or district chiefs,
____ is usually the officer in charge of a single-alarm working fire.
battalion chief
Above battalion chiefs in the fire department hierarchy are division chiefs, deputy chiefs, and/ or assistant chiefs.
SN
The chain of command is used to implement department ___, ___ and ___.
rules, policies, and procedures.
The fire department uses a paramilitary style of leadership. Most fire departments are structured on the basis of four management principles:
- Unity of command
- Span of control
- Division of labor
- Discipline
is the management concept that each fire fighter answers to only one supervisor, and each supervisor answers to only one boss
Unity of Command
___ l refers to the maximum number of personnel or activities that can be effectively controlled by one individual (usually three to seven).
Span of contro
Most experts believe that span of control should extend to no more than ___ people,
five
___ is a way of organizing an incident by breaking down the overall strategy into smaller tasks. Some fire departments are divided into units based on function.
Division of labor
____ is the set of guidelines that a department establishes for fire fighters.
Discipline
Standard operating procedures, suggested operating guidelines, policies, and procedures are all forms of ___
discipline
There are several different ways to look at the organization of a fire department.
Function,Geography and Staffing
In all three types of departments, the company officer functions as the staffing coordinator and gatekeeper, implementing the department’s rules, regulations, and procedures to ensure proper fire company staffing.
SN
Fire officers are managers, and like all other managers, they have specific functions that they must perform, regardless of the size or type of organization. The four functions of management were originally identified by Henri Fayol and published in the Bulletin de la Société de l’Industrie Minérale in 1916;
These four functions are as follows:  Planning  Organizing  Leading  Controlling
___ means developing a scheme, program, or method that is worked out beforehand to accomplish an objective.
Planning
____ means putting resources together into an orderly, functional, structured whole.
Organizing
___ means guiding or directing in a course of action.
Leading
___ means restraining, regulating, governing, counteracting, or overpowering.
Controlling
___ are developed by various government or government-authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by a government body.
Rules and regulations
___ are developed to provide definite guidelines for present and future actions.
Policies
___ are written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or actions.
Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Some fire departments prefer the term suggested (or standard) operating guidelines (SOGs) instead of SOPs because conditions often require the fire officer to use personal judgment in determining the most appropriate action for a given situation.
SN
___ are based on a value system.
Ethical choices
The key to improving ethical choices is to have clear organizational values. This can be accomplished by:
 • Having a code of ethics that is well known throughout the organization 
•Selecting employees who share the values of the organization 
•Ensuring that top management exhibits ethical behavior 
•Having clear job goals
•Having performance appraisals that reward ethical behavior 
•Implementing an ethics training program
F.O. 1 could be assigned to
A) supervise a small administrative
B) single fire company
C) apparatus
D) single fire suppression
A)
NFPA 1021 standard define fire officers in how many level
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
C
The IAFC expanded company officer development in what year
A) 1975
B) 1976
C) 2001
D) 2003
D
