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206.01 Flashcards

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Responsibility and accountability for firefighter safety lies at all levels of an incident organization, including what?

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Strategic, tactical, and task levels

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What are key tactical positions when relating to violent incidents?

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• triage
• extrication
• treatment
• transportation

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What two ways do Dispatch centers receive information about violent incidents?

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• incident takers can receive information directly from the 911 caller
• secondarily from PD dispatch center

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What is the greatest variable to the accuracy of the Dispatch nature code?

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The quality, quantity, and timeliness of the information gathered by the taker

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Incident takers and supervisors are trained to take a pessimistic approach to initial information with regards to what two disciplines?

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• service delivery
• firefighter safety

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What is the weakest part of our information gathering system?

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The information provided by the caller

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Why is it important to share pertinent seen information with a HQ when direct radio comes with Fire companies/PD units occurs?

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To close the communications and accountability loop

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Is the responsibility of Phoenix regional dispatch center to maintain phone communications to who?

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Any law-enforcement dispatch center/communication systems that fire units do not have direct radio to radio comms with

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What becomes the best inter agency information gathering tool to incident situational awareness for violent hazard zones?

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Phone communication

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What questions are included in a size up for a violent incident?

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• what is the problem?
• what is getting in the way of me achieving the tactical objectives?
• what can hurt/kill me?

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The size up for violent incidents should include what information?

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• Dispatch info regarding incident type/nature
• location of incident/patient
• number of patients
• history with this address/person
• staging?
• PD on scene?
• planned/unplanned incident?
• is there a TLO on scene yet?
• can units communicate directly with PD on scene?
• are there patients located inside the inner perimeter?
• if the scene is totally uncontained, can PD begin to extricate the injured patient to a safe treatment/transportation area?

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What is considered the best form of info gathering at violent incidents?

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Direct communications with PD

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Who has the responsibility of hazard mitigation?

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PD

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On violent incidents buyer/EMS resources are support resources necessary for what?

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• triage
• treatment
• transporting

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Communication with PD officers, face-to-face, or via radio will provide direct information as to what related to the location and access to the injured?

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The containment/coordination

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What are the most important steps to determine where and when fire/EMS resources can access patients in the safest manner?

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Direct communication/coordination

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What is the mission of the TLO?

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To provide an on duty, 24 hour law-enforcement liaison for fire units regarding any police activities

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What information does the TLO provide the IC Real time?

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• critical factors
• scene perimeters
• Police actions
• Coordination with police/fire activities

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What is considered the hot zone for a police incident command?

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Inner perimeter

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Fire/EMS resources shall never operate within what?

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The inner perimeter

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The area between the inner and outer perimeter is defined as what?

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The warm zone

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Fire/EMS resources can conduct what operations in the warm zone?

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• triage
• extricate
• treat patients

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TLO has access to what that are not accessible for command officers/fire companies

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Encrypted/specialty radio channels

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What defines the operational posture of an incident?

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Strategy defines our actions based on what?
Location/proximity to the hazard
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When operating on violent incidents, what strategies are employed?
Offensive or defensive
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For an offensive strategy at a violent incident where Will fire/EMS units operate?
A well defined warm zone
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We can only operate under marginal conditions for what?
Life safety
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A defensive strategy is defined as what?
Taking a posture outside of the hazard zone to stage until the scene is secure and transportation system is ready to accept the patients that have been removed from the hot zone
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When is a defensive posture taken?
When we have a prolonged violent incident or during episodes that are so volatile that PD is unable to ensure safe areas/corridors for our efforts
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Law-enforcement will not dictate what related to our fire companies?
Plan of action
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In a defensive strategy, firefighters will identify what?
 what or who is lost, write it off and treat/transport everyone else exposed to the scene
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The complication of adding a mass casualty incident to a violent hazard zone should be considered when?
In the initial scene size of the incident
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Staging in quarters is an acceptable option if the incident is what?
Within proximity or for long durations
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Staging in quarters should include what?
Being on the apparatus and actively monitoring fire/PD radio channels for information regarding the incident and necessary response 
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Staging in quarters should not delay what?
A company’s ability to respond
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Level two staging should be utilized for what incidents?
1st alarm or greater; or when it is impossible to establish a defined hazard zone upon the arrival of initial companies
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What is critical to incident success and firefighter safety?
Safely staging resources until an appropriate size up/strategy and plan can be formulated and then communicated
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It is always easier to get companies where?
Into the hazard zone, then it is to get them out
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What is important to know about the hazard zone on violent incidents?
It can be dynamic and migrating rather than stationary
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How can a company officer ensure that communication with PD on their tactical channel via portable radio is being conducted?
By either doing it themselves or delegating it to a qualified crewmember
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During an active violent incident, what is the main tactical objective for the police department?
Eliminate or mitigate the hazard
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 allowing a battalion chief level sector officer to manage a sector is preferable because what?
It allows for better communication, communications, and less distracting and evaluating conditions, actions and accountability
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Limited exposure to violence/hazards decreases the possibility for injury to?
Firefighters or the disruption of treatment of the patient
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No incident command system or incident organization can out perform what?
Bad personal decisions by the individual
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What can easily lower individuals or crews into bad situations with significant consequences?
Good intentions or overly aggressive natures
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What is the most effective action for firefighters when they find themselves in an unpredicted, possibly violent situation?
• run • hide • fight
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What is involved in the run/hide/fight?
• removing themselves to safety • communicate directly with PD over their tactical channel to request assistance • utilizing emergency traffic button on portable radios when not safe to speak • utilize any area of safe refuge or cover • only actively engage the aggressor as an absolute last resort
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When communicating directly with PD over their tactical channel to request assistance, what must be communicated?
• who • what • where
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When the need to actively engage an aggressor is being utilized as a last resort what must the fire department member be fully committed to do?
Fully commit to neutralizing the aggressor
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What is the most effective method to ensure firefighter safety?
Not allowing us to be surprised or lured into a dangerous situation
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When firefighters find themselves in a violent situation, what is the safest thing to do?
Remove themselves from the violence and retreat to safe refuge
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What is the key to close quarter interactions with patients?
Maintaining a defensible space
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How can firefighters improve defensible space?
Removing/coaxing patients to open areas or unconfined spaces
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