TACTICAL PRIORITIES 202.02A Flashcards
What ranks what’s most important in our emergency service delivery, and they guide our decision making and actions taken?
Tactical priorities
Definition of Priority?
Precedence, especially established by the order of importance or urgency
Definition of Objective?
Something worked toward or striven for
Definition of Strategy?
Plan(s) method(s) for achieving a specific goal(s) (e.g. the set of tactics that make up a offensive incident action plan or the “what’ incident solutions)
Definition of Tactic?
Maneuver(s) for gaining advantage, (e.g. performing vertical ventilation, or the “how” of incident solutions)
Definition of Rescue?
The activities required to protect occupants, remove those who are threatened and to treat the injured.
Definition of Fire Control?
The activities required to stop the forward progress of the fire and to bring the fire under control.
Definition of Property Conservation?
The activities required to stop or reduce primary or secondary damage to property.
What are the 3 Tactical Priorities?
- Life Safety
- Incident Stabilization (through fire control on fires)
- Property Conservation
What dictate the order of importance?
Priorities
Objectives identify What?
goals
What are a set of plans/methods for achieving objective?
strategies
Specific maneuvers or assignments used to execute a strategy are what?
tactics
What signify completion of objectives?
benchmarks
What are the Tactical objectives and the benchmarks that correspond? (4-1 is not spoken)
Tactical Objectives: Benchmark
- Rescue- primary search - All Clear
- Controlling the fire - Fire Control
- Property conservation - Loss Stopped
- Customer stabilization - Not a spoken benchmark as this is the ongoing and often affect last long after the acute incident is over
