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It can be argued that protecting who’s lives is the highest fire ground priority
Firefighters
Activities that present a significant risk to life ratio shall be limited to ?
situations where there is a potential to save endangered lives
Activities that I routinely employee to protect property shall be recognized as
Inherited risks to the safety of members and actions shall be taken to avoid these risks
No risk to the Safety of a member shall be
Acceptable if there’s no possibility to safe life or property
Fire fighter should not be committed to interior offensive fire fighting operations in
Abandon buildings
Continuous process of identifying hazards/ risks and taking steps to illuminate or reduce them in a rapid changing circumstances
DRA
Dynamic risk assessment
Organizational responsibilities are to select the right personnel for each assignment and for providing them with the following
Information, PPE, needed tools, incident action plan, necessary instructions in training and effective supervision
Those in leadership positions are obligated and acquired to develop 4 critical leadership skills which are (A,M,CR,MA)
Authority, mentoring, conflict resolution and mission analysis
Maintaining situational awareness, walk don’t run, use handrails on mounting, always receive belts, drive apparatus defensively, stop apparatus at intersections, wear PPE never breathe smoke work safely are all examples of
Key safety behaviors
Calls that appear to be relatively easy to handle are called
Routine calls
Firefighters can reduce the hazard of structural Collapse by positioning the Apparatus and hose lines near
The corners of the buildings were there the strongest
Establishing a Collapse zone should be how big?
1.5 times the height of the building
Indications of building collapses
Heavy fire,Walls and floors bowing or sagging, distortion of doors and windows, beams pulling away from supports, little or no runoff using heavy streams, cracks developing or moving, walls dissembling and her steam impact
Creeks, cracks or ground or normally associated with
Collapse
Deadloads greatly increase potential for
Collapse
System by which facilities, appointment, personnel, procedures and communication Are organized to operate within a common organizational structure
Incident command system
Contains the overall strategic goals, tactical objectives and support requirements for a given operational period During an incident
Incident action plan
If a loss FF cannot hear other firefighters or has lost way of contacting them they should attempt to use the emergency egress techniques those techniques are
Locate a hose line follow it out, crawl in a straight line with hands on floor, crawl in one direction, call out or make noises that other firefighters my hear
Safety system on the SBA that allows two units to be hooked together and event that one fails
Emergency escape breathing support system
According to OSHA so called buddy breathing technique are
Unreliable and more likely to produce to victims
A wide variety of ground letters are used by the fire service in North America the following on the most common types
Single ladders, roof letters, folding attic ladders, extension ladders and combination liners
Unless the situation dictates otherwise the longest ground ladder on the scene should be
Deployed first then the next longest etc.
Prior to selecting and positioning ground ladders the Most critical factors are
primary objective (Rescue, window or roof access), Fire location and size and current/ expected fire behavior behavior
Ideal climbing Angle of ground ladders is
75°