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What is the rule of thump for span of control?
1 officer can effectively supervise 5-6 individuals
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What factors affect the number of people being supervised? (5)
- ability and experience of the officer
- ability and experience of the firefighter
- nature of the task
- relationship of the task being performed by one individual to the task being performed by another
- stability and competence of the organization
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What is the incident commander
the person who assumes overall command and control of personnel and apparatus at an incident.
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What the IC’s roles?(3)
- Direct all operations from the strategic level
- move toward the correct action
- operate in the clinically calm manner by looking and acting professional at all times
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What are the IC’s responsibilities?(4)
1, Protect, remove, and provide care for endangered citiaens
- provide for firefighter safety and survival
- must stop the fire
- conserve property during and after firee control operations
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What must the IC be well trained in? (3)
- Decision making
- command and control
- review and evaluation
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Why should decisions be open ended?
Allow for expansion, reversal and building upon
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What should new IC’s learn? (5)
- Distinguish between assumption and fact
- how to act on assumption and fact
- maintain flexible approach to decision making
- develop standard response to report on viewed conditions
- switch to management role after initiating action
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What are the four areas of management?(4)
- Stress management (delegate)
- “Lone Ranger” management (Be a single commander)
- Midpoint management (Be able to take over mid incident)
- Scarce resource management (know what you go and what you need)
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What are the traits of the IC?(15)
- Respect for task
- ability to stay cool
- knowledge of command, training and experience
- inclination to command not act
- provide positive example
- psychologically stable
- physically fit
- fair
- straightforward when communicating
- willing to take reasonable risk
- concern for all personnel
- know limitations all the way down the line
- respect for command
- organized
- disciplined and consistent
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What happens when an incident is operating without central command?
No command at all or multiple/competitive command
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WHen should command be establishied?
ASAP
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What must quickly be decided by first on scene?
- Nothing showing - requires further investigation
2. Fast attack - requires immediate action
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What three out comes will conclude the fast attack phase?
- Situation stabilized by offensive attack lead by first office
- Command transferred to second in officer
- Situation is not stabilized, command moves to exterior and stationary position
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What must be broadcast to all units when taking command?(4)
- unit designation
- assumption of command
- name and location of command
- Fire ground frequency
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What are the advantages of the command post?(10)
- Stationary position
- quiet place
- vantage point from witch to see
- inside lighting
- more powerful radios
- place to write and record
- reference and preplanning material
- protection from the weeather
- space for staff
- computers
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What are the operational levels and who operates at them?
Strategy - IC
Tactical - Company/sector officers
Task - Firefighters
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What are the advantages of sectoring?
- Reduces IC span of control
- Divides large geographical incidents into effectively sized units
- provides and array of major support functions
- Improves firefighter safety
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Assigned sectors are based on the following factors?
- early fire stage overload - lots of crews arriving all at once
- Major operation prediction
- Isolated tactical positions
- Dangerous conditions
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if there is no comand or multiple commanders the operations break down in many areas, what are they?(7)
- action
- command and control
- coordination
- planning
- organization
- communications
- safety
