EVERYBODY GOES HOME!

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EVERYBODY GOES HOME!

• Michael P. Neuhard, Fire Chief
• Mark S. Wheatley, Assistant Fire Chief
• Operations Division
• David L. Rohr, Assistant Fire Chief
• Administrative Services Division

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Facilitators

• Floyd L. Ellmore, Battalion Fire Chief
• 6th Battalion, B-Shift
• Mark A. Rohr, Battalion Fire Chief
• 2nd Battalion, C-Shift
• John M. Gleske, Battalion Fire Chief
• Safety and Personnel Services

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Objectives

• To better understand causes of fire fighter
  fatalities and injuries.
• To underscore your personal responsibility
  towards safety and situational awareness.
• To eliminate or reduce the risk of injury or
  death to you and the people under your charge.
• To make better decisions to prevent the need for
  rapid intervention.
• Update a whats hot whats not policy.

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Objectives

• To weave the fabric of safety into the
  organization.
• To be able to recognize dangerous, high-risk
  situations and develop a proper course of action
  to deal with it.
• Ensure the proper use of Personal Protective
  Equipment
• Eliminate unsafe acts that injure or kill
• Maximize the level of interest in the concept of
  ethics and doing things right.

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Risk Management

• Captain Gordon J. Graham
• Risk Manager
• California Highway Patrol
• www.GordonGraham.com

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Risk Management

• Your profession (regardless of rank or job
  description) entails a tremendous amount of risk.
• Risk can be eliminated, avoided, shared,
  transferred, or controlled.

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Risk Management

• Every identifiable risk is a manageable risk!
• You are the best risk manager with respect to
  your specific operations.

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Risk Management

• Defined
• Risk Management is any activity that involves the
  evaluation of, or comparison of risks and the
  development, selection and implementation of
  control measures that change, reduce or eliminate
  the probability or the consequences of a harmful
  action.

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Risk Management

• Risk ManagementRPM
• Recognition
• Prioritization
• Mobilization

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Risk Management

• Process of looking into the future (5 seconds to
  5 decades) and looking for things that can go
  wrong
• Doing something up front (prioritization and
  mobilization) to prevent it from going wrong

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Risk Management

• Simple stuff
• Wearing seat belts
• Avoiding trip hazards
• Fastening your helmet properly
• Complex
• Tank farm fire
• Building Collapse

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Risk Management

• Two types of RM
• Organizational Risk Management
• Discretionary Time
• Operational Risk Management
• Non-discretionary Time

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Risk Management

• Systems approach properly designed, kept up to
  date, and fully implemented
• SOPs
• Rules Regulations
• SOs
• GOs
• Directives

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Risk Management

• Why are systems not taken seriously?
• Arrogance The rules dont apply to me
• Ignorance I have no idea what the rules are
• Complacency We have always done it this way
• Acceptance I just want to fit in with the group

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Risk Management

• Company Officers have the daily and ongoing
  responsibility to ensure that appropriate
  workplace standards are maintained.
• Do you have the guts to enforce the rules??

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Risk Management
HR
HR
LF
HF
RISK
LR
LR
LF
HF
FREQUENCY
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Risk Management

• Neural Linguistic Programming
• How the brain processes, stores, and catalogs
  information.
• Picture the brain as a hard drive cataloging and
  storing your daily experiences.

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Risk Management

• Neural Linguistic Programming
• When you get involved in any task or incident,
  your brains scans your hard drive and looks for a
  close match.
• When it finds a match, RPDM kicks in
• What is RPDM?

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Risk Management

• RPDM
• Recognition
• Primed
• Decision-Making

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Risk Management

• RPDM allows good people with experience to do
  things right.
• If you have not experienced the task you have now
  encountered, your brain cannot locate a match.

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Risk Management

• RPDM
• Without a match, one may encounter problems.

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Risk Management

• RPDM
• HF events do not cause problems
• Most of the decisions you will be asked to make
  involve HF events. Those are relatively easy due
  to RPDM

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Risk Management

• RPDM
• LF events may cause problems for the decision
  maker
• Training is the solution to addressing LF events

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Risk Management
HR
HR
LF
HF
RISK
LR
LR
LF
HF
FREQUENCY
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Risk Management

• HR/LF
• Discretionary time (DT)
• Non-Discretionary Time (NDT)
• Causes the most grief

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Risk Management

• HR/LF-NDT
• These can be identified ahead of time (risk
  assessment) and trained on regularly to assure
  appropriate prioritization and mobilization.

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Risk Management

• When facing a low frequency task, you must
• Analyze (Size-up)
• Identify
• Clarify
• The more time you can spend on these, the higher
  probability you will make the right call.

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Risk Management

• After analyzing, you must then
• Prioritize
• Mobilize

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Getting Things Done Right

• It is not the intent of this class to give the
  right thing to do in every given situation.
• The job is too complex and the situations
  innumerable.

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Getting Things Done Right

• It is the intent of this class to maximize the
  level of interest in the concept of safety and
  ethics.
• Ethics plays a role in each decision you make,
  whether on the fireground or a personnel
  situation.

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Getting Things Done Right

• Quick 4-step system for thinking things through
  to assure you are doing the right thing
• Always obey the law and follow the policy
• If it smells bad, it probably is bad
• When questioned after the fact, always be up
  front and honest
• Ethical Actions speak louder than ethical words.

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Personal Protective Equipment

• Coat, Pants, Suspenders, Boots, Gloves, Hood,
  Helmet w/strap, SCBA Masks PIC kits.
• Dont view PPE as optional equipment!
• Officers, lookout for your people!
• Lookout for yourself!
• Dont play the shell game with your gear
  cleaning

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Personal Protective Equipment

• All PPE must be county-issued (SOP 03.01.02)
• Use of personal gear is prohibited.

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Personal Protective Equipment

• Your Responsibility
• Make sure it is worn properly (yours others)
• Inspect it monthly (SOP 03.01.02)
• Inspect it after every IDLH incident

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Personal Protective Equipment

• Gas leaks?
• Eye Protection
• Traffic Vests
• SOPs 02.03.04, 03.01.02

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Personal Protective Equipment

• PFDs around or near the water

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Personal Protective Equipment
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Safety

• Pre-Response
• Assure that detail, CB, and EOS personnel are
  ready to go and know what you expect from them.
  (SOP 01.02.01)
• In-station and on calls!

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Safety Size-up

• Proper size-up (analysis) begins at the time of
  the call and continues throughout the entire
  incident.

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Size-up Enroute Considerations

• Time of Day
• Occupancy
• Type of Construction
• These are the three biggest factors in your
  size-up

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Safety - Enroute

• Don gear prior to boarding
• Use seat belt

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Safety - Enroute

• Are you prepared for
• A rollover?
• Head-on collision?

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Safety - Enroute

• Do you allow aggressive driving?
• Do you condone racing to beat another company in?
• Is it worth the risk?
• Is it worth losing a life?

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Safety - Enroute

• Slow down on arrival
• Drive slow approaching the scene
• Take in all the sights possible

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Approaching the Scene

• Observe all conditions
• Street access
• Rescues (obvious and potential)
• Exposures
• Location of fire and smoke
• Power lines
• Collapse zones

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Safety On Scene

• SIZE-UP
• Obtain a full view of the situation prior to
  engaging a plan.
• Get a view of the rear

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Safety On Scene

• Identify the lowest point of fire involvement.
• If unable to determine, force yourself to find
  out.

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Safety On Scene

• Possible excuses for not checking the rear
• Dont have time
• I can tell whats going on from the front
• Another crew will steal my line
• Possibility of someone trapped

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Safety On Scene

• Possible excuses for not checking the rear
• Cant get to the rear
• Afraid my crew will go in without me.

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Safety On Scene

• Benefit vs. Risk
• 1st Question
• What is the benefit to be gained?
• Slow down and take in whats going on.

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Safety On Scene

• Other Questions/Considerations
• What is the type of construction?
• Type V is considered the most hazardous. Most
  fatal to firefighters.
• Todays fires are burning hotter than in the
  past.
• More synthetics in construction furnishings.
• May have pre-fabricated lightweight trusses held
  together with gussets that fail after a brief
  exposure to 800-1000 oF resulting in quicker
  collapse.
• Buildings are less fire resistant.

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Safety On Scene

• Are there signs of pre-flashover?
• Rollover is the pre-cursor to flashover

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Safety On Scene

• Be personally accountable for monitoring and
  communicating changing conditions.
• Someones actions and life safety may depend on
  it.

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Size-up Risk Analysis

• Identify the following
• Construction
• Occupancy
• Fire location extent, smoke conditions, life
  hazards.

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Size-up Risk Analysis

• Where is it going?
• Fire travel
• Smoke travel
• Inside and outside conditions

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Size-up Risk Analysis

• Are there any people in there?
• If so, what are their chances of being alive?

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Size-up Risk Analysis

• Where are the people?
• Blind search or focused search?
• How do we get to them?
• How do we protect them?
• How do we get them out?
• Where are the firefighters?
• Whos who, what, and where?

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Benefit? High-Medium-Low
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Communications

• Situation Report
• REMAIN CALM
• Take a deep breath
• Keep it simple
• Think before speaking
• Speak in normal voice and speed
• Calm, Clear, Concise

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Communications

• On Scene Report
• Water Supply
• Unit designator and location
• Building height, occupancy type construction
• Incident Conditions
• Any Fire or Smoke and from where

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Communications

• Situation Report
• Perform Size-up
• Describe the extent of the problem
• Actions going to be taken
• Orders for other units
• Requests for additional resources
• Request (if necessary) to TXFR Command

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Communications
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Communications
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Accountability

• Use the passports
• Drop passport _at_ drop-off point

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Crew Unity

• Enter together
• Leave together
• Talk to each other about air management
• Always operate in teams of two or more

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Accountability

• Maintain Situational Awareness
• Use names to confirm who is with you
• Report honestly
• Confirm air supply
• Assess conditions around you

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Situational Awareness
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Accountability

• DISORIENTATION is a major killer!
• Tell us if you are not sure where you are
• If you think you are in trouble, you are in
  trouble

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Accountability Event Timers

• What is the effect of my operation?
• What are the fire conditions?
• Assess structural stability

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Accountability Event Timers

• What is the status of the search?
• Is there adequate ventilation?
• Are escape ladders in place? Where?

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Accountability Event Timers

• How long have you been on air?
• How long will it take you to get out safely?
• Assess accountability of your crew and prepare to
  report it.

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Rehab (Medical Unit)

• Provisions addressed in these procedures shall
  include
• medical evaluation and treatment.
• food and fluid replenishment.
• crew rotation.
• relief from extreme climatic conditions.

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Rehab (Medical Unit)

• Rehab is a group formally recognized in the ICS
  as the Medical Unit.
• Officers shall check-in with the Medical Unit
  Officer just as they would any tactical
  group/division.
• The passport will be provided to the Medical Unit
  Officer.

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Rehab (Medical Unit)

• Unless otherwise designated, a crew will have
  approximately 20 minutes to rehab and change SCBA
  cylinders.
• Members should only remove the amount of
  protective clothing absolutely necessary to
  effect rehab.

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Rehab (Medical Unit)

• Officers should keep crews intact and have
  knowledge of their whereabouts at all times.
• Officers in rehab shall monitor the incident
  channel just as they do in any tactical unit.
• Once members complete evaluation and
  replenishment (20 min.), the crew shall don their
  PPE and be ready to return to the incident
  operation.

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Rehab (Medical Unit)

• Personnel with the following medical symptoms of
  cardiovascular conditions shall remain in the
  medical unit for monitoring
• Resting Pulse gt110
• Systolic Blood Pressure gt150mmHg
• Diastolic Blood Pressure gt100mmHg
• Oral Temperature gt100.6

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Rehab (Medical Unit)

• The Medical Unit shall maintain a log of all
  personnel who are not within acceptable limits
  after 15 minutes of rest.
• All personnel shall remain in the medical unit
  rehab area for at least 15 minutes.
• Possible inclusion in the PSOHC medical file.

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Post-Incident

• Critique the event before everyone goes home.

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Eliminate Unsafe Acts!
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Eliminate Unsafe Acts
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Compliments

• FireFightersCloseCalls.com
• Gordon J. Graham
• Fire 101 Committee
• Jenny Gleske, my daughter