3rd Edition Chapter 16 - Rules of Engagement Flashcards
A type of structure that has windows or doors of sufficient number and size to provide for prompt ventilation and emergency evacuation?
Opened Structure
Rules of Engagement for Structural Firefighting?
- Size up your tactical of operation
- Determine the occupant survival profile
- Do not risk your life for lives or property that cannot be saved
- Extend limited risk to protect savable property
- Extend vigilant and measured risk to protect and rescue savable lives
- Go in together, stay together, come out together
- Maintain continuous awareness of your air supply, situation, location, and fire conditions
- Constantly monitor fire-ground communications for critical radio reports
- You are required to report unsafe practices or conditions that can harm you. Stop, evaluate, and decide
- You are required to abandon your position and retreat before deteriorating conditions can harm you
- Declare a mayday as soon as you THINK you are in danger
Covering high-risk operations in a high-hazard environment required that the rules meet what criteria?
- Be a short, specific se of bullet points
- Be easily taught and remembered
- Define critical risk issues
- Define “go” and “no go” situations
A type of structure that is lacking windows or doors of sufficient number and size to provide for prompt ventilation and emergency evacuation?
Enclosed Structure
To cause the company officer and fire fighter to pause for a moment and look over their area of operation, evaluate their individual risk exposure, and determine a safe approach to complete assigned tactical objectives?
Rule 1: Size up Your Tactical Are of Operation
To cause the company officer and fire fighter to consider fire conditions in relation to possible occupant survival of a rescue event as part of their initial and ongoing individual risk assessment and action plan development?
Rule 2: Determine the Occupant Survival Profile
To prevent fire fighters from engaging in high-risk search and rescue and firefighting operations that may harm them when fire conditions prevent occupant survival and significant or total destruction of the building is inevitable?
Rule 3: Do Not Risk Your Life for Lives or Property That Cannot Be Saved
To cause fire fighters to limit risk exposure to a reasonable, cautious, and conservative level when trying to save a building?
Rule 4: Extend Limited Risk to Protect Savable Property
The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed, confined or restricted within certain limits?
Limited
To cause fire fighters to manage search and rescue and supporting firefighting operations in a calculated, controlled, and safe manner, while remaining alert to changing conditions, during high-risk primary search and rescue operations where lives can be saved?
Rule 5: Extend Vigilance and Measured Risk to Protect and Rescue Savable Lives
Restrained, calculated, and deliberate?
Measured
To ensure that fire fighters always enter a burning building as a team of two or more members and no fire fighters is allowed to be alone at any time while entering, operating in, or exiting a building?
Rule 6: Go in Together, Stay Together, Come out Together
When do you declare a mayday after getting separated from your team?
When reconnection is not accomplished after 3 radio attempts or if it does not take place within 1 minute
To cause all fire fighters and company officers to maintain constant situational awareness of their SCBA air supply and where they are in the building, as well as all that is happening in their area of operations and elsewhere on the fire ground that may affect their risk and safety?
Rule 7: Maintain Continuous Awareness of Your Air Supply, Situation, Location, and Fire Conditions
What are the major benchmarks for checking air supply?
- Before entry
- After going up or down stairs
- Before entering and searching a room
- After exiting a room
- After going down a hallway or aisle
- Before and after doing a labor-demanding task
