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Incident Priorities

1) Protection of Life

2) Incident Stabilization through Fire Control

3) Property/Environment Protection & Conservation

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Tactical Priorities

1) Investigation/Rescue/Fire Attack/

Property Conservation

2) Ensure adequate water supply

3) Lobby Control (control of building systems, "HVAC", Elevators, Alarm panels, Electrical, Intial Fire Protection systems)

4) Control of floors above & below the fire 

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Priority Resource Deployment

1) First in company

A)Size up

B)Investigate/Intial Action, Rescue/Fire attack

C)Water supply

D)Pass Command

E)Communicate Location,Conditions, Needs

2) Second in company

A) Assume Command

B) Establish Lobby Control

C) Request & Assign additional resources as needed

D) Support Investigation, Rescue/Fire attack teams as needed

3) Third in company

A) Water supply

B) Manpower

4) Fourth in company

A) Establish Base

B) Manpower

5) Additional companies

Manpower

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Priority Battalion Chief Officer Deployment

1) First in Chief

Assume Incident Command

2) Second in Chief

May be assigned Division Supervisor on the fire floor

3) Third in Chief

May be assigned as Logistics

4) Fourth in Chief

May be assigned as Division Supervisor on floor above the fire

5) Additional Chief Officers

Assigned as needed

First in Assistant Chief

Assume the I.C.

First in B.C. remain at C.P. as Deputy I.C., Plans Chief, Operations Chief, ETC. at discretion of I.C.

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Command

A) Establish a Command Post in a safe location

B) Determine the adequacy of resources

C) Establish Base & assign a Base Manager

(locate base 200' away from fire building)

D) Give follow up & status reports to FCCF

(every 30 to 45 minutes)

E) Order additional resources as needed

F) Gain control of fire building systems

(standpipe, sprinklers, HVAC, elevators, ETC.)

G) Maintain necessary Re-stat/Sit-stat records

H) Provide for ICS positions

(Operations, Plans, Logistics, Divisions, & Groups)

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Greater Alarm Resource Assignments

1) Reinforce Fire attack companies needs in staffing & equipment and provide for relief/rehab of personnel

2) Reinforce previously assigned Command assignments in staffing & equipment as needed

(Command Post, Lobby control, Base, Divisions & Groups)

3) Initiate Staging in the fire building and designate a staging manager as needed

4) Initiate Stairwell support and designate a stairwell support manager as needed

5) Set up a Rehab area in a safe location away from the fire building

6) Initiate an Air Operations Branch and designate a Branch Director as needed

7) Initiate additional Branches, Divisions, and Groups as needed

(elevator rescue, salvage, ventilation, ETC)

8) Support demobilization with adequate staffing as needed

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Incident Commander