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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What is the rule of thump for span of control?

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1 officer can effectively supervise 5-6 individuals

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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What factors affect the number of people being supervised? (5)

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  1. ability and experience of the officer
  2. ability and experience of the firefighter
  3. nature of the task
  4. relationship of the task being performed by one individual to the task being performed by another
  5. stability and competence of the organization
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What is the incident commander

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the person who assumes overall command and control of personnel and apparatus at an incident.

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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What the IC’s roles?(3)

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  1. Direct all operations from the strategic level
  2. move toward the correct action
  3. operate in the clinically calm manner by looking and acting professional at all times
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What are the IC’s responsibilities?(4)

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1, Protect, remove, and provide care for endangered citiaens

  1. provide for firefighter safety and survival
  2. must stop the fire
  3. conserve property during and after firee control operations
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What must the IC be well trained in? (3)

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  1. Decision making
  2. command and control
  3. review and evaluation
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

Why should decisions be open ended?

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Allow for expansion, reversal and building upon

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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What should new IC’s learn? (5)

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  1. Distinguish between assumption and fact
  2. how to act on assumption and fact
  3. maintain flexible approach to decision making
  4. develop standard response to report on viewed conditions
  5. switch to management role after initiating action
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What are the four areas of management?(4)

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  1. Stress management (delegate)
  2. “Lone Ranger” management (Be a single commander)
  3. Midpoint management (Be able to take over mid incident)
  4. Scarce resource management (know what you go and what you need)
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What are the traits of the IC?(15)

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  1. Respect for task
  2. ability to stay cool
  3. knowledge of command, training and experience
  4. inclination to command not act
  5. provide positive example
  6. psychologically stable
  7. physically fit
  8. fair
  9. straightforward when communicating
  10. willing to take reasonable risk
  11. concern for all personnel
  12. know limitations all the way down the line
  13. respect for command
  14. organized
  15. disciplined and consistent
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What happens when an incident is operating without central command?

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No command at all or multiple/competitive command

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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

WHen should command be establishied?

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ASAP

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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What must quickly be decided by first on scene?

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  1. Nothing showing - requires further investigation

2. Fast attack - requires immediate action

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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What three out comes will conclude the fast attack phase?

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  1. Situation stabilized by offensive attack lead by first office
  2. Command transferred to second in officer
  3. Situation is not stabilized, command moves to exterior and stationary position
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What must be broadcast to all units when taking command?(4)

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  1. unit designation
  2. assumption of command
  3. name and location of command
  4. Fire ground frequency
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What are the advantages of the command post?(10)

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  1. Stationary position
  2. quiet place
  3. vantage point from witch to see
  4. inside lighting
  5. more powerful radios
  6. place to write and record
  7. reference and preplanning material
  8. protection from the weeather
  9. space for staff
  10. computers
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What are the operational levels and who operates at them?

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Strategy - IC
Tactical - Company/sector officers
Task - Firefighters

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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

What are the advantages of sectoring?

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  1. Reduces IC span of control
  2. Divides large geographical incidents into effectively sized units
  3. provides and array of major support functions
  4. Improves firefighter safety
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

Assigned sectors are based on the following factors?

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  1. early fire stage overload - lots of crews arriving all at once
  2. Major operation prediction
  3. Isolated tactical positions
  4. Dangerous conditions
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INCIDENT COMMAND AND MANAGEMENT

if there is no comand or multiple commanders the operations break down in many areas, what are they?(7)

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  1. action
  2. command and control
  3. coordination
  4. planning
  5. organization
  6. communications
  7. safety