staffing Flashcards
GROUP 1: All Ladder Companies, Rescue Companies, Squad Companies, and Hazardous Materials Technician Units are designated as five Firefighter companies and shall be staffed with five Firefighters at the beginning of each tour.
GROUP 2: Those Engine Companies designated to start a tour with five Firefighters when staffing is at Level A.
GROUP 3: Those Engine Companies designated to start a tour with five Firefighters when staffing is at Level B.
GROUP 4: Those Engine Companies that are not part of Group 1, 2 or 3 and are designated to start a tour with four Firefighters.
GROUP 5: Special units that will be staffed as follows:
Haz-Mat Company 1 shall be designated and staffed as a seven Firefighter company.
Marine Companies shall be designated and staffed as two Firefighter companies
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Officer of a Ladder, Rescue, or Squad Company is to notify the dispatcher via radio when responding with four Firefighters. They are to identify unit and state, “We are responding with four Firefighters.”
Companies responding to alarms and staffed with less than 4 firefighters shall transmit tothe dispatcher “we are responding understaffed” and state the # of FF’s responding.
A Group 1, 2, 3, or 4 unit responding with less than four Firefighters.
Must notify dispatcher via Department radio that they are responding”Under Staffed.” (See PA/ID 5/74 Sec. 1.5)
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