Incident Command System 300.07
A single beep tone that is used once the emergency tone has been activated
What is a Channel Marker?
A house attached to any number of other houses (three or more), each of which may have multiple floors, commonly side by side each with their own separate entrances.
What is a Townhouse?
If the first arriving command officer is delayed in their response, Command shall be assumed by the ____________.
What is 3rd Arriving Engine officer?
Personnel investigating a gas leak must be in full PPE, including activated SCBA, and performing atmospheric monitoring while approaching the scene. At minimum, the crew must carry what kind of extinguisher?.
What is a Class B or Dry Chem?
Used to keep track of the current status of all companies and personnel assigned.
What is an Accountability Control Board?
A person assigned to assist the IC in the Command Post with documenting, resources on a tactical worksheet, monitoring tactical radio channels, and other critical functions of command
Command/Battalion Aide
All companies except the 1st engine and/or 1st truck shall position nearby (within a block if possible) but in an uncommitted position that still allows access into the incident scene.
What is Level One Staging?
A high-rise building is defined as a building 75 feet above the lowest _____________ to the highest floor level intended for occupant use.
What is fire department access?
In the event the valve is in the proximity of the fire, personnel will be protected by how many hose lines while performing the shut-off operation?
What is 1 hose line?
The minimum level of accountability to be used at all incidents
What is Level I accountability?
Organized reporting activity designed to provide positive confirmation of the location, assignment, and number of personnel assigned to a division, group, or unit operating within a hazard zone
What is PAR?
Framework for defining the level of acceptable risk given certain sets of circumstances. That plan translates into a clearly communicated incident strategy, either "offensive" or "defensive".
What is the Incident Risk Management Plan?
The stairwell that is closest to the standpipe shall be declared the __________?
What is attack stairwell?
The initial response for a commercial high occupancy inside gas leak shall be _________?
What is a Local Box?
Name 3 conditions under which a firefighter should call a MAYDAY.
Become tangled & can't extricate in 60 sec.,Fall through a floor, caught in a “flash over, zero visibility, without a hose, & doesn't know the direction to an exit, primary exit blocked by fire or collapse & unable to exit within 30 seconds • Experienced a low air alarm activation and was not at an exit (door or window) within 30 seconds • Experienced a failure of an Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA), unable to locate an exit (door or window) within 60 seconds • Serious medical emergency
A 200 foot line can access significantly less than 50% of the fire area/occupancy, often 25% or less.
What is a Mega Structure?
Fire in the attic space, Fire in a basement, Operating above a fire, Zero visibility, Encountering high heat, Reports of, “We can’t find the fire”, Reports that state “fire under control,” but you can still see active fire conditions from the command post are examples of?
What is Red Flag?
The 2nd arriving engine co. is responsible for assisting the 1st arriving engine to deploy the 2 1/2 inch attack line on the fire floor from the standpipe connection at the floor below the fire. The crew is responsible for proper pressure to the attack line from the standpipe connection and ________.
What is TWO OUT?
All units uncommitted to incident mitigation are to stage a minimum of ________ from the incident scene, as recommended in the Emergency Response Guide.
What is 330 feet?
an informational tone broadcast transmitted by emergency dispatchers at Howard County’s Public Safety Answering Point (Howard Communications) for a period of five (5) seconds over all operational radio channels to notify personnel that an emergency has been declared.
What is Emergency Tone?
Immediate retreat where all hose lines and heavy equipment will be left in place and all personnel in the Hazard Zone will exit the structure as quickly and as safely as possible.
What is abandon the structure?
The "Fire Under Control" benchmark should be declared within ____ minutes.
What is 10 minutes?
The first and second arriving engine crews on the second alarm should proceed to the area of the command post. (The driver of the first arriving DFRS 2nd alarm engine shall remain at the location known as ______?
What is Base?
The flammable range of natural gas is _______?
What is 3-15%?
(what equipment is needed to implement the rescue plan)
What is Resource?