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.
Collapse during RIT operations highlights the need for improved pre-incident planning and collapse zone awareness at vacant structures
Whiteout conditions on Interstate 196 near Grand Rapids, triggered a massive crash involving cars and semitrailer trucks and leaving numerous people injured
Strong winds pushed embers into nearby woods and sparked 10 to 12 brush fires up to two miles away as firefighters from multiple departments worked the blaze
Over a dozen horses were saved during a fire at Liberty-Belle Stables in Templeton
Bruno’s impact on the fire service is far-reaching and profound, particularly in the areas of safety, command and customer service
Reflecting on OSHA requirements and the position paper that has everyone talking
Firefighters from Cambridge and other departments battled a fire in a former tuxedo shop
Two Worcester firefighters were injured while fighting a fire that claimed two occupants
Fire in Chelsea destroyed a warehouse and several other buildings
Keep clear and visible lines of command and continuously observe, orient, decide and act to bring calm to the chaos at an emergency scene
Size-up reports are an essential part of effective fireground operations – and can save firefighter lives
Defensive mode means positioning farther away from the scene to avoid the collapse zone
The St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral church was featured in the 1978 movie “The Deer Hunter”
An explosion inside a Youngstown building collapsed the first floor into the basement
Eunice FD highlighted many mutual aid fire departments that responded to the fire as well as an “angel in the sky with a crop duster dropping water from the heavens”
Weekend storms caused destruction, power outages across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky
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Videos show firefighters running to escape a collapsing wall during a fire in Pottsville
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
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