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Blue Card
Tukwila Fire Department

• Understanding terminology and the
  responsibilities
• of the first and second in company officer.

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Communication Order Model

• Call the person you want first.
• Wait for them to acknowledge you.
• Give your radio traffic.
• Wait for them to acknowledge your traffic.
• Always use the Order Model.
• Never start your radio traffic before someone
  else has finished their full model.

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First-in Officer

• Notify dispatch using the correct order model.
• Assures correct radio channel.
• Tells others you are about to give initial
  report.
• All other 1st Alarm Units will go to location and
  position selves out of the way.
• No other radio traffic until first-in officer
  completes their short report.

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First-in OfficerSize-up

• Building description
• Size Small, Medium, Large, Mega.
• Height Number of floors above and below grade.
• Occupancy Type
• Single Family House
• Multi-Unit Family Garden apartment, center
  hallway etc.
• Strip Mall
• Commercial
• Big Box
• Note If the building or company is well known,
  call it by name!

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• What Do You See!
• Nothing Showing (investigating)
• Smoke Showing (description)
• Fire Showing (location)
• Defensive fire conditions

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First-in OfficerFollow-up report

• Report gives results of your 360.
• Any changes to your I.A.P.
• Accountability location the side you are working
  on.
• Does the structure have a basement?
• Taking or Passing Command?

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Passing Command

• Rescue mode driver is the standby.
• Passing command awaiting a standby team.
• Second unit must provide the standby team if the
  first unit passes command.
• Pass command to get water on the fire fast.
• In most cases, do not pass command for defensive
  fires.

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1st Alarm Units

• 1st Alarm goes to location, parks out of the way.
• 2nd Engine company stages at a hydrant.
• Ladder companies do not pass first entrance into
  incident.
• An exception to the third bullet point is if the
  Ladder Company knows that the second or third
  entrance is closest to the actual incident

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1st Alarm Units Cont.

• Stay at your rig until you are given a task.
• The entry team can enter the IDLH as soon as the
  second company with a standby team states they
  are on location.
• Once command has been established, you contact
  command to report you are on location. Not F-4.
• Always bring your R.I.C. bag with you to the
  on-deck position.

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When to use Rescue Mode

• Any multi-family complex can be considered rescue
  mode without specific indicators.
• Any single family house with credible indicators
  that someone is home.
• Any incident the first I.C. believes requires
  quick action to save savable lives.

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Second in OfficerIC-

• Establish command first.
• Do your own 360.
• Incident action plan.
• Declare strategy offensive or defensive.
• Give task(s), location, and objective(s) to
  crews.
• Evaluate needed resources.
• Plan on becoming the support officer for the
  strategic I.C. until additional chief officers
  arrive.

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No Face-to-Face with I.C.

• Do not expect a face-to-face with the I.C.
• All communications by radio.
• Turn in passport without face-to-face.
• I.C. will be in a vehicle. (discretion of I.C.)
• Do not walk up to command post and try to talk to
  I.C. without being asked to.

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Transfer of CommandFrom 1st IC to BC

• Transfer of command will usually be done over the
  radio.
• The transfer will consist of verification of
  units and their tasks.
• All other radio traffic will be on stand-by until
  the transfer is completed.
• Exception-When a crucial safety item needs to be
  communicated immediately.
• At the end of the transfer, the BC will announce
  the strategy-either offensive or defensive.

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C.A.N.A. REPORT

• Conditions
• Actions
• Needs
• Air (team)

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P.A.R.Personal Accountability Report

• Gives the current status of your team.
• No need for number of team members if all is
  accounted for.
• E-51 has PAR and unit location is the only
  information the I.C. needs.
• If in a division or group, your PAR will be
  reported to the person holding your passport.

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What Happens When You Are Asked To Become The
Command Aide.

• You are the responsible person for tracking ALL
  units at the incident.
• You must know the task and location of each
  company.
• Draw a diagram of the structure to help track
  unit positions.
• Track companies into and out of rehab and
  on-deck.
• Help the IC listen for radio traffic and decipher
  hard to understand reports.
• Remind the IC of key benchmarks as needed. If
  something is missed, tell them.
• If you need to answer for command, say command.
  Not command post or aide.

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New Terms

• On Deck-Go to the place assigned and prepare to
  go to work.
• Recycle-Exit the building, change your bottle,
  hydrate, and prepare to be redeployed.