FIRE HISTORY
CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIORS
FIRE SERVICE MISSION
ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES
FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL
100
A period in history that brought change in the fire service because of textile and steel industries.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100

Facing frightening situations using your training, experience, and self- discipline.

What is Courage?

100
To save lives and protect property.
What is the fire service mission?
100
The principle that a person can report to only one supervisor.
What is unity of command?
100
Responsible for all operations within the fire department.
What is the Fire Chief?
200
Protect communities of a few hundred to ten of thousands of residents.
What is volunteer fire departments?
200
In self and work; starts with how one looks and behaves.
What is Pride?
200
Always the first and highest priority in an emergency operation.
What is Life safety?
200
The number of individuals or groups that one person can effectively supervise or manage.
What is span of control?
200
Monitors operational safety during an emergency incidents.
What is the fire department incident safety officer?
300

Water pass from a one person to another in an attempt to put out fires.

What is the bucket brigade?

300
Doing what needs to be done.
What is work ethic?
300
To prevent an incident from getting any worse.
What is Incident stabilization?
300
The process of dividing large jobs into small jobs to make them more manageable.
What is division of labor?
300
Investigates fires and determine the origin and cause of a fire?
What is Arson investigator?
400
Organized one of the first fire departments in Philadelphia, PA.
What is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Truthfulness and honesty.
What is moral character?
400
Programs to prevent fires and can help accomplish the fire service mission.
What is fire prevention education?
400
Three to seven firefighters effectively, with five being the optimum.
What is the fire officer can supervise?
400
Inspects a variety of occupancies to ensure code compliance.
What is a Fire prevention officer/inspector?
500
private, sergeant, lieutenant, captain was adopted because early firefighter was military veterans.
What is fire department rank structure?
500
Doing the right thing.
What is Integrity?
500
Save property without putting firefighters in mortal danger
What is property conservation?
500

Intended to educate and train, correct inappropriate behavior, and ensure compliance with rules, regulations and procedures.

What is Discipline?

500

They supervise a fire company in the station and at fires and other emergency scenes.

Who are fire department officers?

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