FO CH01 Flashcards
A moral, mental, and physical state in which all ranks respond to the will of the leader. Also, the guidelines that a department sets for fire fighters to work within.
Discipline
Written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or actions.
SOP
The process of identifying problems and opportunities and resolving them.
Decision making
A midlevel chief who often has a functional area of responsibility, such as training, and answers directly to the fire chief.
Assistant or division chief
An obsolete amplification device that enabled a chief officer to give orders to fire fighters during an emergency; a precursor to the bullhorn and portable radio.
Chief’s trumpet
Historically, an identifying symbol on a building to let fire fighters know that the building was insured by a company that would pay them for extinguishing the fire.
Fire mark
The superior–subordinate authority relationship that starts at the top of the organization hierarchy and extends to the lowest levels.
Chain of command
Directives developed by various government or government-authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by a government body
Rules and regulations
The description from the IAFC Officer Development Handbook for the tasks and expectations for a Fire Officer II. In this role, the company officer is encouraged to acquire the appropriate levels of training, experience, self-development, and education to prepare for the Chief Fire Officer designation
Managing fire officer
The description from the IAFC Officer Development Handbook for the tasks and expectations for a Fire Officer I. In this role, the company officer is encouraged to acquire the appropriate levels of training, experience, self-development, and education to prepare for the Chief Fire Officer designation.
Supervising fire officer
A system that defines the roles and responsibilities to be assumed by personnel and the operating procedures to be used in the management and direction of emergency operations; also referred to as an Incident Management System (IMS).
Incident Command System (ICS)
A complex process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent.
Leadership
Restraining, regulating, governing, counteracting, or overpowering.
Controlling
Putting resources together into an orderly, functional, structured whole.
Organizing
The highest-ranking officer in charge of a fire department; the individual assigned the responsibility for management and control of all matters and concerns pertaining to the fire service organization.
Fire chief
