Structural Firefighting Flashcards
Administrative decision making is less time sensitive therefore input should be included from the diverse sources and careful analysis of all options should be considered this is referred to as
Rational decision making (RDM)
The IC must decide on proper course of action with limited information available in a relatively short period of time this process is referred to as
Recognition primed decision making (RPD)
Standard on emergency services incident management system NFPA:
NFPA 1561
Standard for fire department occupational safety and health program NFPA:
NFPA 1500
Forest fires in California in 1970 prompted the development of the
Firescope incident command system
The fire ground command system was developed in
Phoenix Arizona
What establishes NIMS as a national system requiring it’s used but federal agencies making its adoption mandatory when the federal government is providing preparedness assistance
Homeland security presidential directive 5
HSPD-5
Which command is preferred over a shared or unified command
Single command
Which command do two different jurisdictions and or agencies share responsibility for developing the incident action plan
Unified command
In unified command the plan development is shared but who should direct all field units
One operations chief
The three command modes that apply only to company level operations are?
Investigation, fast attack, command
Incident priorities are?
Life safety, extinguishment and property conservation
You can delegate authority but you cannot delegate
Responsibility
The command post is wherever the
Incident commander is
The span of control is
3-7 with 5 being rule of thumb
How far away should staged units be
Two or more blocks
The only NIMS position that must be established every incident is
Incident commander
The incident command staff positions are?
Incident safety officer
liaisons officer
public information officer
NFPA For standard for fire department safety officer
NFPA: 1521
Which command staff position should be staffed most often
Safety officer
Who is the point of contact for outside agencies that are not assigned to operations functions
Liaison officer
The incident management team is divided into
Command staff and general staff
The section chiefs report directly to the IC are?
FLOP
Finance/administration
Logistics
Operations
Planning
(Possibly intelligence)
Which general section locates and provides materials equipment supplies and facilities required to support incident operations
Logistics section
Which general section is the information manager he should be the most frequently implemented section position
Planning section
The planning section chief’s responsibilities this tracking and documenting
Situation status (SITSTAT) Resource status (RESTAT)
Which general section manages all tactical operations such as search and rescue, extinguishment and medical care to victims
Operations section
Which section generally has the most resources
Operation section
A division is in charge of a
Geographic area
A group is in charge of a
Functional area
Branches are reserved for operations beyond the span of control of a single division or group or with a contingent of units from another agency is working together an example is a
Police branch
A task force is
Any combination of resources
A strike team
Must be resources of the same type
