Aircraft Accidents/Incidents
What does the AEP state for the response to an Alert 1?
(Hazard-specific section: Aircraft Accidents/Incidents)
Local Standby: An aircraft that is known or suspected to have an operational defect that should not normally cause serious difficulty in achieving a safe landing. This is notification only.
**No response is required. All units involved will be manned and will standby in quarters. **
What are the incident priorities for ARFF?
(Basic Plan)
Life Safety
Incident Stabilization
Property Preservation
What is stated in the AEP about the duration of incident command by ARFF personnel?
ARFF personnel maintain command through the initial rescue and suppression phases of the emergency,
and/or until aircraft operating areas are closed and aircraft movements have halted/been directed away from the scene.
Where can you find the breakdown of mutual aid unit response, based on Alert level, in the AEP?
At the very end in the appendix section
What is the primary responsibility for ARFF/Ops during civil disturbance if no fire is involved?
Issue NOTAMs and communicate the emergency impacts to stakeholders as necessary
What actions are included within the recovery stage of an accident?
(Hazard-Specific Sections: Aircraft Accidents/Incidents)
Removal of wreckage (requires NTSB approval after their custody phase)
Decontamination of the Incident Scene
Inspection of Aircraft Movement Areas
Disposal of Wreckage
Disposal of HAZMAT
Name 3 ARFF responsibilities for Direction and Control of an incident?
(7 listed in the AEP functional section, Direction and Control).
1. When notified of an emergency situation, respond to the scene with personnel and equipment.
2. Identifies an IC and establishes an Incident Command Post, if appropriate.
3. Perform IC duties at scene, if appropriate.
4. Inform TCSO Dispatch of scene status, if appropriate.
5. Manage fire/rescue resources, directs fire operations, conducts necessary rescue operations, and determines the need to evacuate the area in the vicinity of the scene.
6. Provide responding mutual aid resources with scene size-up and specific hazards.
7. Assign a representative to the ICP, when activated.
What hazards does the AEP RECOMMEND Jackson Fire/EMS as incident command? (ARFF Personnel will still assume initial command).
Structural Fire
HAZMAT incident
What section of the AEP is the Emergency Response Organization Responsibility Matrix Located in? (pictured on your handout sheet)
The Basic Plan, page 19 in the file share AEP
When ARFF personnel respond to a pandemic/bioterrorism emergency, what are the most critical actions to take?
Initiate the ICS structure until transfer of command can shift to health officials
Contact Teton County Public Health to provide size-up
Determine the need for evacuation/aircraft isolation
Name 5 of 9 stages of the response phase for an Aircraft Accident/Incident according to AEP
(Hazard-Specific Sections: Aircraft Accidents/Incidents)
Initial size-up,
create/protect escape routes
prolong survivable environment inside aircraft
fire suppression
primary search and rescue
secondary search and rescue
area search
triage, treatment, transport
HAZMAT/Decontamination
What are the ARFF responsibilities during an aircraft accident?
(there are 4 listed in the AEP hazard-specific section)
1. Respond to the accident/incident location and begin rescue and fire suppression operations.
2. Initiate the Incident Command System and assume command at least through the initial fire and a rescue phase of the accident/incident.
3. Notify Teton County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch of Alert Type (I, II, III), aircraft size, if known, and request mutual aid resources as necessary.
4. Request further assistance from appropriate airport tenants and air-carriers as necessary
What are the groups ARFF could expand to within the operations section? Who would these groups be accountable to?
Suppression (attack)
Rescue
Medical
Mass Care
These groups are accountable to the IC, or an operations section chief (if one is assigned)
What are the three primary sections of the AEP?
Basic Plan, Functional Sections, Hazard-Specific Sections
What is the name of the ICS position that can assist in tracking and managing resources arriving at the airport?
Staging Officer: Useful for directing/dispatching responding mutual aid units from the staging area to the scene per IC request. Also may be used to track resources available to dispatch to the scene.
What are the exceptions for preservation of evidence listed in the AEP under investigative stage? What must be done if evidence is disturbed?
(Hazard-Specific Sections: Aircraft Accidents/Incidents)
To remove persons injured or trapped
To protect the wreckage from further damage
To protect the public from injury
documentation (sketches; descriptive notes; photographs) of the original position of the moved item will be completed to the extent possible, including any significant impact marks.
In addition to firefighting and medical responsibilities during a natural disaster, ARFF personnel have a responsibility related to property preservation. Describe this responsibility.
(Hazard-Specific: Natural Disasters)
Survey airport property to:
a. Determine integrity of buildings.
b. Assess status of gas, electricity, water, and sanitation.
c. Test alerting system(s).
d. Assist in support operations, to include search, inspections, personnel accountability, and protective action implementation.
e. Move equipment to a safe and secure location, if building damage or destruction potentials exist and weather permits.
When would an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) be activated? How would the IC activate it?
(Functional Sections: Direction & Control)
the operation expands beyond the capability of the IC and additional support is needed, or if the airport emergency is part of a larger emergency that affects the surrounding communities.
a request may be made by the IC to Teton County Emergency Management or the Teton County Commissioners to activate the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
What are the 12 specific hazards contained in the AEP?
Aircraft Accidents/incidents
Fuel fires
Power Failures
Natural Disasters
Crowd control/civil disturbance
Structural Fires
Hazardous materials incidents
Pandemic disease and infectious bio-terrorism
Terrorism
Sabotage, Hijack & unlawful interference with operations
Water rescue
Unauthorized UAS
When conducting an initial scene size-up, what information should be gathered and communicated to mutual aid?
A brief description of current conditions (evacuation location/status, visible fire location, deployed slides, state of the aircraft)
Current actions being taken (fire suppression if offensive, egress protection if defensive)
Primary needs from mutual aid based on scene conditions
What are the steps to prolonging a survivable environment inside the aircraft according to the AEP?
(Hazard-Specific Sections: Aircraft Accidents/Incidents)
Prevent direct flame impingement on aircraft exterior
Wet and cool the fuselage to delay a burn through
Extinguish all fire within 50 feet of fuselage
Ventilate the fuselage as needed
What are the two specific hazards contained in the AEP that require ARFF personnel to be in a stand by/ready state in a safe location?
Terrorism incidents
Sabotage, Hijackings, and other unlawful interference with operations
Under what situations would the IC activate divisions and what might a division command structure look like?
(Functional Sections: Direction & Control)
When there are multiple scene geographic locations requiring/competing for the same resources.
1. North Division Supervisor (reports to operations chief/IC). Can be further divided into rescue, suppression, and medical groups
2. South Division Supervisor (reports to operations chief/IC). Can be further divided into rescue, suppression, and medical groups.
Where in the AEP can you find information about how the airport would take action to protect the health and safety of individuals on airport property during an emergency?
Section 5: Protective Actions
Located in the functional sections.
What are key factors in a scene size-up for structural fires?
- Conduct a visual inspection of the scene on approach, 360 if able
-Identify the starting location of the fire (panel), the effectiveness of terminal suppression system
- Locate/designate points of evacuation from the structure (may need to be communicated with an EVAC assistance team)
- Locate the nearest hydrant (s)
- provide a CAN report to dispatch with the information above
- Consider a medical triage location a safe distance from the scene accessible from primary evacuation points