Fire Command at Major Fire Incidents
Command Major Fire Department Emergency Operations
- Assess the situation/determine incident complexity
- Report on conditions to dispatch
- Gain situational awareness of incident environment
- Determine incident objectives
- Establish immediate priorities
- Establish a command post
- Establish an appropriate organization
- Request additional resources
- Ensure recall of off-duty personnel and continued city emergency services
- Implement an incident action plan
- Assign specific work tasks
- Establish a fireground personnel accountability system
- Adjust strategy and/or tactics to reflect changing conditions in the incident
- React to a critical incident within the incident
Command Major Fire Department Emergency Operations
- Assess the situation/determine incident complexity
- Report on conditions to dispatch
- Gain situational awareness of incident environment
- Determine incident objectives
- Establish immediate priorities
- Establish a command post
- Establish an appropriate organization
- Request additional resources
- Ensure recall of off-duty personnel and continued city emergency services
- Implement an incident action plan
- Assign specific work tasks
- Establish a fireground personnel accountability system
- Adjust strategy and/or tactics to reflect changing conditions in the incident
- React to a critical incident within the incident