Tukwila Fire
Department
Blue Card
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 1
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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 Officer
Size-up
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Building description:
Size; Small, Medium, Large, Mega.
Height; Number of floors above and below grade.
Occupancy Type;
1. Single Family; House
2. Multi-Unit Family; Garden apartment, center hallway etc.
3. Strip Mall
4. Commercial
5. 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 Officer
Follow-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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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.
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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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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 Officer
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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 Command
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From 1 IC to BC
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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
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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
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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.
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