Deployment

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Deployment
Command Function 4

• Henderson Fire Department
• Incident Command Training

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Objectives

• Upon completion of this chapter, you should be
  able to
• Identify the basic concept of incident-deployment
  management.
• Explain the dispatch/communication process as it
  relates to deployment management.
• Describe how an Incident commander determines
  incident resource needs.
• Demonstrate level I, level II staging, and
  On-Deck staging.
• Demonstrate incident accountability and incident
  evolution.

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Competencies

• Predict resources based on the most rapid,
  accurate, current, and forecasted event profile
  you can develop based on the tactical objectives.
• Maintain awareness of local / area response
  capabilities.
• Use staging, assignment by the IC and
  accountability SOPs to get firefighters into the
  standard work cycle.
• Maintain current, accurate, resource inventory
  always maintain an appropriate resource reserve
  and tracking on a tactical worksheet.

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Overview

• Deployment is where we mobilize and begin to
  physically address the incident problem.
• The IC does the other seven functions of command
  in order to manage deployment

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Command Function 4 Deployment

• Major Goal
• To provide and manage a steady, adequate, timely
  stream of appropriate resources.

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Command Function 4

• Competency
• Predict resources based on the most rapid,
  accurate, current, and forecasted event profile
  you can develop based on the tactical objectives.
• The deployment process begins with the customers
  initial call for help.
• Responders.
• In a very practical way, dispatch and responders
  basically share command.

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Command Function 4

• IC must compare the event profile and the
  response profile to call for the additional
  resources required.
• Event profile
• What type of problem is it?
• How big is it now/how big do you think it will
  get?
• How long has it been going on/how long do you
  think
• it will go on?
• Response profile
• What resources are on scene?
• When will the responding resources arrive on
  scene?
• What additional resources are required?

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Command Function 4

• Competency
• Maintain awareness of local / area response
  capabilities.
• IC have a good grasp of the available area
  personnel, equipment, apparatus and the systems
  used to activate and manage those resources.
• The IC must also be familiar with how long it
  takes to get them to the scene.
• Additionally, responding company and command
  officers should advise when they will be delayed.

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Command Function 4 Deployment

• Competency
• Use staging, assignment by the IC and
  accountability SOPs to get firefighters into the
  standard work cycle.
• Incident scene deployment begins with staging.
• Staging SOPs create a standard entry gate.
• Level I staging is automatically activated.
• Level II staging creates a huge command advantage.

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Command Function 4
On Deck
On Deck Forward Staging
On Deck crews can be used to
- Relieve existing crews
- Reinforce a current position
- Cover a new position
- Rescue
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Command Function 4
On Deck
- Places resources in the correct positions
prior to the need.
- Provides division supervisors sufficient
resources to get the job done.
- Puts us in the best position to keep pace with
(or ahead of) the incident problem power curve.
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Command Function 4

• - The IC should instruct the company officer to
  report back when they arrive at their position
• - Crews in transit between staging and division
  or division to division should always notify
  command of their arrival.
• - Crews can report to division officers in
  established divisions.

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Example
E2
E3
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Example
E5 On-Deck
E2
E3
E4 On-Deck
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Command Function 4
3 Deep Deployment Model
Hot Zone
Level II Staging
Div
E-81
E-97
E 1
E 2
T 1
On-Deck
E-82
E-83
On-Deck
E 3
E 4
E 5
E-98
Warm Zone
D/G Co.s working in the Hazard Zone
On-Deck Companies
Companies in Staging
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When Manpower Allows

• - One crew inside working
• - One crew available for relief
• - One crew to step in to the relief position
  while the original crew is refilling their air
• - This becomes the basis for continuous rotation

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Command Function 4

• Assignment by the IC
• The Command and Control cornerstone of everything
  we do.
• Manage Work Cycle
• Periodically Recycle or Rehab

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Round Trip Deployment Practices

• Everyone that goes in comes out
• Must follow SOPs to get into the (game) IAP
  properly
• Have right equip-tools prior to entering hazard
  zone
• Have Company IAP prior to entering hazard zone
• Never leave hose line proper spacing on the
  line
• Within voice, vision or touch (use the TIC)
• Know crews air consumption rates
• Have an exit plan
• Max depth into structures 150 feet
• Work time once on air 10 12 minutes

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Command Function 4
Work / Rest Cycle

• Interior Work Time 10 - 12 Min.
• Defines the work cycle
• Should be agreed on as part of the Round Trip
  Ticket
• May vary based on crew fitness levels
• The decision to leave the hazard zone must be
  based on having a reserve air supply to exit
  safely

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Mobile Air Supply

• Command should provide a forward air supply to
  the divisions as soon as possible.
• Air supply has this capability if they can spot
  their apparatus within 300 to 400 feet of the
  critical divisions.

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Command Function 4
Recycle

• Not Rehab youre going back to work
• Still Assigned to your original div/grp
• 1st bottle off of the pack, 2nd bottle from the
  engine spare air cylinders
• Crew stay together and returns to div/grp
  together
• Be prepared to go right back to work
• Check-out/check-in with the div/grp supervisor
  when recycling

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REHAB

• Crews may rotate in and out of the hot zone
  within the division itself to maximize manpower.
• Once a Company is assigned out of the division to
  Rehab Group they must be re-assigned out of Rehab
  by Command.
• IC may determine if Company Recycling or a
  formal Rehab is appropriate.

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Command Function 4

• Review Staging, On-deck,
• Recycle, and Rehab SOPs

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• Goal of Accountability

• To enable us to track crew members at all times
  and to identify the location all units inside the
  hazard zone.

• To effectively track the location of all crews
  operating in the hazard zone , we need three
  things
• Hold company officers and/or team leaders
  accountable for the unity of their crew.
• Incident-specific assignments given by a single
  IC (utilizing a tactical worksheet).
• Require crews to inform Command when they have
  completed their assignments and are leaving a
  specific area to work another area.

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Strategic

• The IC starts the accountability process by first
  recording and then tracking the assignment status
  and location of resources.
• Accountability benchmarks - PARs
• PARs mean the crew is in the assigned location,
  doing ok and in contact with the IC or
  Division/Group

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PARs

• Required for the following situations
• All clear
• Knockdown
• Change in strategy (Offensive to Defensive)
• 20 minute elapsed time
• Any report of a missing or trapped firefighter
• Sudden hazardous event
• Any time Command feels it is necessary

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• Passports

• Kept on dash
• Passport, TeleStaff Roster, and Helmet ID updated
  at beginning of shift

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Command Function 4 Deployment

• Competency
• Maintain current, accurate, resource inventory
  always maintain an appropriate resource reserve
  and tracking on a tactical worksheet.
• Control the position and function.
• Major tool TWS (along with a radio).
• Tactical reserve

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Accountability / Tracking System

• A tracking system should be able to answer three
  critical questions
• - Whos on the fireground?
• - Where are they on the fireground?
• - What are the doing?

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Questions?
Break!
10 minutes please