This is your scenario on arrival. You have an engine company with 3 personnel.

This is the classic firehouse kitchen table discussion. Tweet your answer using @petelamb.

Do you raise a ladder or take a hose line, or both at once?

How do you deploy your resources of 3 personnel?

This week you are called to a commercial building or a light haze of smoke on an upper floor. As you are investigating the interior someone from outside is checking the roof and finds this scenario.

1.) What will be your incident action plan?

2.) Do you preplan the HVAC devices in your commercial buildings?

3.) What actions will positively influence the interior smoke condition?

4.) What will your method of extinguishing be?

5.) Do you have a plan and an SOP for these circumstances?

This week we look at a parking lot incident wit a victim. On approach you see this haze / vapor and you have a victim down.

1.) What is your on scene size- up report?

2.) What additional resources will you call for or what will be needed?

3.) What are you doing abut the victim?

4.) What resources will you use to identify what your problem is?

5.) Suppose it dissipates in 5-7 minutes, how does that affect your  incident action plan?

This week the Tactical Fire Problem is about you. You are the firefighter in the picture in a living room of a modern “McMansion” home. You have been separated from your crew and you are semi conscious.

Please review your department’s mayday procedure here. Make sure all of the troops can verbalize what they would do. If you have an acronym like LUNAR or LIP review that now. review how you might know where you are from crawling on carpet to tile to doorways or archways etc. Review firefighter orientation now.

After this tabletop review get out in the field and PRACTICE this in real life. A Discussion is not enough!

This week The Tactical Fire Problem is a fire / hazmat involving cylinders. Take a look.

1.) What is your action plan?

2.) What do the cylinder colors possibly indicate to you?

3.) Does every cylinder of this type have a pressure relief valve?

4.) How many feet is the hot zone for this incident?

5.) What are the potential exposures there could be from an incident like this? What type of facility are you at?

This week the Tactical Fire Problem is an automobile fire with victim. (s) ?

1.) The presence of one victim does not mean this incident is “all clear”. How will you determine if other victims are present?

2.) What types of things explode on vehicles?

3.) How toxic is the smoke from burning autos? What treatment must be given to the victim?

4.) What is the attack plan?

5.) How much training have you done with new automobile proximity key devices?

This week the tactical fire problem is about an overheat/fire in a complex industrial machine.

When you go out and preplan industrial buildings, also preplan some of the systems, machines and processes. Not only will you need to know that in a fire, but in cases of industrial accidents, people trapped and other issues. Some machines have systems that must be shut down in sequence or worst consequences could occur.

What is your plan?

This week the tactical Fire problem is a report from the police department that they have stopped a suspicious vehicle and when searching the trunk this is what you find. The occupants are out of the car.

1.) What chemicals might be used in a meth operation? For homework look that up and be prepared.

2.) What is your action plan that would be used in your system and response procedures?

3.) What actions need to be taken for the law enforcement officers?

4.) What is the difference between exposure and contamination?

5.) Who has jurisdiction? What does the command structure look like?

This week the tactical fire problem is a chimney fire. Take a look.

1.) What does a close look size up tell you here?

2.) Do you have any indications of extension? What are they?

3.) What do the small windows indicate on the B (Bravo) side of the main house.

4.) What is your incident action plan?

5.) Does the fact that this appears to be more recent construction help you or hurt you?

This week the tactical Fire Problem is a Trash Chute. These were commonly found in late 60’s and 70’s construction in mid and high rise structures. If you have any of these or respond mutual aid to one, check it out.

1.) Lets assume you are on floor 4 and the door appears wedged open. How can you slow smoke spread?

2.) What can you do to clear a blocked chute?

3.) What companies and how many do you send to the lowest level room, or incinerator?

4.) Is a confined small fire in the chute the potential for greater alarms?

5.) What affect does the construction of the building have on this incident?