Incident Command
The FireRescue1 incident command resource page offers in-depth information about incident command principles, crew and resource deployment, best practices related to incident action plans and size-ups, training for specialized fireground teams, plus the latest news about incidents involving command issues.
Investigators faulted the Newark Fire Division for inadequate training, tactical errors and a decision to send firefighters into a hazardous cargo hold
An Austin-Travis County EMS spokesperson said two were rescued from under the debris of the house that exploded and a third from a partially collapsed house next door
Miami Dade Fire Rescue crews, including two fireboats, responded to a third-alarm fire at a scrap metal yard
Mutual aid response in Spring Lake for a commercial structure fire
Two Kansas City firefighters were hospitalized after being injured during a house fire that was spreading to other homes
Investigators determined that multiple lithium-ion batteries charging inside the Stacyville firehouse were the cause of the fire
Adair County Health System had set up a triage center at the Greenfield high school after much of town was destroyed
A crane near a cargo ship burned underneath the Walt Whitman Bridge
Fire in an oven extended into the roof of the Fremont factory
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San Jose firefighters were able to keep the fire from extending into exposures
Back to basics – sounding and walking on the roof, using roof ladders, working from an aerial, cutting the hole and punching through
Benton County Fire District 1 stated the 525,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse in Finley is too unstable to enter
Avoid three common errors – miscoding; inaccurate or omitted time recording; and incomplete, brief or poor narratives
Follow the SROVT principles – solid, realistic, ongoing, verifiable training – to develop strong incident commanders
Mutual aid response credited with keeping Durham barn fire from destroying an attached residence
ICs must base their decisions on experience, lessons learned and the intel coming in from crewmembers
Identifying drone needs, building training program, and deploying on the incident scene
A fire in an abandoned house in Oakland extended into the attic of a house next door displacing 12 occupants
First responders from four agencies rescued several people in an underground intercontinental ballistic missile silo in Arapahoe County
A Cleveland firefighter was injured in a porch collapse during a house fire
DeKalb County firefighters faced occupants who jumped from windows during an apartment fire
Tanker carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline on I-95 in Norwalk was involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer and a car
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A fire in a Brooklyn supermarket quickly extended into residential structures
Allentown firefighters faced fire on the third floor of an end unit that was extending into the exposures
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Eight Spokane firefighters were inside when the roof of the US Bank building collapsed
Several firefighters were injured during the blaze at a popular Destin restaurant
More than 200 firefighters, lifeguards and police officers poured in from Oceanside and nearby cities to help extinguish the fire
First-arriving Brooklyn companies faced fire on two floors extending into an exposure
Miami firefighters found occupants above the boarded-up first-floor
The Firehouse Winery restaurant took over the quarters of the Liberty Hose Company after the department relocated
Firefighters battled a fire involving the attic, roof at the Timberline Lodge featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film
Two children were killed when a suspected drunk driver crashed into the Berlin Township building where the party was hosted
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