SDOPS RIC Comms

Question 1

When reporting an emergency on the radio what are the methods to use in order?

Answer 1

Assigned incident channels
Department hailing channel
EMER channel

Question 2

What are the communications traffic modes?

Answer 2

Administrative Traffic-used to manage department resources
Incident Traffic-Routine traffic while managing, responding, and operating at an incident
Priority Traffic-Urgent but non-emergency in nature
Emergency Traffic-immediate peril

Question 3

What is the RIC policy?

Answer 3

For all incidents with and IDLH atmosphere or where a significant risk to be posed to firefighter safety, IC responsible to meet the intent of the the policy.