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Glow, Steven D., Vincent J. Colucci, Douglas R. Allington, Curtis W. Noonan, and Earl C. Hall. "Managing Multiple-Casualty Incidents: A Rural Medical Preparedness Training Assessment." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 28, no. 4 (April 18, 2013): 334–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x13000423.
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AbstractObjectiveThe objectives of this study were to develop a novel training model for using mass-casualty incident (MCI) scenarios that trained hospital and prehospital staff together using Microsoft Visio, images from Google Earth and icons representing first responders, equipment resources, local hospital emergency department bed capacity, and trauma victims. The authors also tested participants’ knowledge in the areas of communications, incident command systems (ICS), and triage.MethodsParticipants attended Managing Multiple-Casualty Incidents (MCIs), a one-day training which offered pre- and post-tests, two one-hour functional exercises, and four distinct, one-hour didactic instructional periods. Two MCI functional exercises were conducted. The one-hour trainings focused on communications, National Incident Management Systems/Incident Command Systems (NIMS/ICS) and professional roles and responsibilities in NIMS and triage. The trainings were offered throughout communities in western Montana. First response resource inventories and general manpower statistics for fire, police, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and emergency department hospital bed capacity were determined prior to MCI scenario construction. A test was given prior to and after the training activities.ResultsA total of 175 firefighters, EMS, law enforcement, hospital personnel or other first-responders completed the pre- and post-test. Firefighters produced higher baseline scores than all other disciplines during pre-test analysis. At the end of the training all disciplines demonstrated significantly higher scores on the post-test when compared with their respective baseline averages. Improvements in post-test scores were noted for participants from all disciplines and in all didactic areas: communications, NIMS/ICS, and triage.ConclusionsMass-casualty incidents offer significant challenges for prehospital and emergency room workers. Fire, Police and EMS personnel must secure the scene, establish communications, define individuals’ roles and responsibilities, allocate resources, triage patients, and assign transport priorities. After emergency department notification and in advance of arrival, emergency department personnel must assess available physical resources and availability and type of manpower, all while managing patients already under their care. Mass-casualty incident trainings should strengthen the key, individual elements essential to well-coordinated response such as communications, incident management system and triage. The practice scenarios should be matched to the specific resources of the community. The authors also believe that these trainings should be provided with all disciplines represented to eliminate training “silos,” to allow for discussion of overlapping jurisdictional or organizational responsibilities, and to facilitate team building.GlowSD, ColucciVJ, AllingtonDR, NoonanCW, HallEC. Managing multiple-casualty incidents: a rural medical preparedness training assessment. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2013;28(4):1-8.
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Bateman, V. Frank, and Donald P. Montoro. "THE EVOLUTION OF MARINE FIRE-FIGHTING CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND EXERCISING AT THE MARINE SAFETY OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1997, no. 1 (April 1, 1997): 627–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-1997-1-627.
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ABSTRACT Because no one entity has the resources to deal with a major vessel fire, contingency planning and exercising within the port community are critical. Achieving the highest level of response readiness is an evolutionary process made more difficult by today's fiscal constraints on both government and industry. This paper will discuss the steps taken over the last 15 years (workshops, table-top exercises, hands-on drills) to develop a comprehensive marine fire-fighting contingency plan that was tested during a recent area PREP exercise. The PREP drill scenario involved a collision between two vessels that resulted in a large spill and fire well away from shoreside access. Participants included over 200 personnel representing 50 federal, state, and local agencies. Shipboard flammable liquid fires are never easy to extinguish; however, the degree of difficulty escalates exponentially when an event does not occur pierside with adequate access for local fire departments. Mutual aid agreements and state-of-the-art response strategies and equipment are essential to resolving this unique situation. Proper use of the incident command system helps ensure smooth, efficient waterside command and control of the fire attack assets. Special logistics systems and staging techniques need to be developed to bring adequate water and foam delivery (8000+ gpm) resources to bear on an away-from-shore incident. These requirements were shown to be well within the response capabilities of the San Francisco Bay fire-fighting community when dedicated fireboats and vessels-of-opportunity were converted to foam master stream delivery platforms.
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Nagata, Takashi, Stephanie N. Rosborough, Michael J. VanRooyen, Shuichi Kozawa, Takashi Ukai, and Shinichi Nakayama. "Express Railway Disaster in Amagasaki: A Review of Urban Disaster Response Capacity in Japan." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 21, no. 5 (October 2006): 345–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x0000399x.
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AbstractIntroduction:On the morning of 25 April 2005, a Japan Railway express train derailed in an urban area of Amagasaki, Japan. The crash was Japan's worst rail disaster in 40 years.This study chroniclesthe rescue efforts and highlights the capacity of Japan's urban disaster response.Methods:Public reports were gathered from the media, Internet, government, fire department, and railway company. Four key informants, who were close to the disaster response, were interviewed to corroborate publicdata and highlight challenges facing the response.Results:The crash left 107 passengers dead and 549 injured. First responders, most of whom were volunteers, were helpful in the rescue effort, and no lives were lost due to transport delays or faulty triage. Responders criticized an early decision to withdraw rescue efforts, a delay in heliport set-up, the inefficiency of the information and instruction center, and emphasized the need for training in confined space medicine. Communication and chain-of-command problems created confusion at the scene.Conclusions:The urban disaster response to the train crash in Amagasaki was rapid and effective.The KobeEarthquake and other incidents sparked changes that improved disaster preparedness in Amagasaki. However, communication and cooperation among responders were hampered, as in previous disasters, by the lack of a structured command system. Application of an incident command system may improve disaster coordination in Japan.
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Lenz, Matthias, and Tanja Richter. "Disaster Response to the Release of Biohazardous Agents: Instrument Development and Evaluation of a Firefighter's Exercise." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 24, no. 3 (June 2009): 197–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00006804.
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AbstractIntroduction:The release of biohazardous agents could affect many people. Preparedness is crucial for adequate responses to accidental or deliberate release of biohazardous agents. It is believed that exercises based on simulated incident scenes are effective methods for the training of firefighters and biohazard response teams. Structured evaluations are important methods used to identify areas of ineffectiveness and to assure the quality of responses to releases of biohazards.Methods:A local fire department conducted a full-scale biohazard exercise in an elementary school. The firefighters practiced prohibiting entry to the area, establishing security zones, evacuating victims, assessing hazards, preventing further dissemination, and sampling and keeping the suspicious material in safe custody.Trained observers systematically evaluated the exercise following a standardized evaluation protocol. A set of data collection templates were created based on standard operating procedures extracted from current guidelines.Results:There were 60 firefighters, eight members of the incident command, 16 simulated victims, and 18 trained observers that participated in the exercise. Out of 31 standard operating procedures, 20 were in accordance with the guidelines, 10 were performed incorrectly, and one was not applicable. Major problems related to the assessment and handling of the suspicious material, the use of protective equipment, and decontamination of victims. Reasons for incomplete and/or conflicting documentation included insufficient knowledge and training of observers, imprecise instructions about documentation, and the size of observation zones.Conclusions:Intensive education and training of response activities is necessary. Each fire department should perpetually reassess their technical equipment and specific skills and their communication and command structures. The applied documentation system performed well in disclosing discrepancies between observed response activities and current recommendations. Using external observers provided transparent and independent data. However, intensive observer training is necessary. Observer training should include detailed, written instructions and short guidelines that could be available during the exercise.
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Shane, Daniel M. "Westley Tire Fire, Stanislaus County, California." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2001, no. 1 (March 1, 2001): 379–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2001-1-379.
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ABSTRACT This is a case study of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emergency response actions taken at one of the largest tire fires in California. The site was an illegal scrap tire dump known as the Filbin Tire Pile. There was an estimated 7 million tires in the pile. The site was located in a canyon in the rolling hills above the San Joaquin Valley near the Town of Westley, California. This tire fire was considered a major environmental disaster where large populations were affected and there was a potential for severe environmental damage. Responders with past experience recognized that the tire fire would be a unique multi-category event containing the elements of a major fire: hazardous materials release and oil spill discharge combined into one event. Shortly after the fire ignited the tires began to pyrolyze, producing a steady stream of oil that discharged to an unnamed drainage in the hills above the valley. The oil in the drainage flashed sending great plumes of thick black smoke into the valley. The oil and tire fires quickly overwhelmed the resources of the local fire departments. The EPA On-Scene Coordinator (OSC) immediately responded using federal authority to respond to and, if necessary, remove a discharge of oil or a hazardous substance under the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1321(c)) as amended by the Oil Pollution Control Act of 1990 (OPA 90). Some of the most difficult problems that were encountered included making decisions on fire suppression tactics; conducting safe operations in extremely hot and unstable fire conditions; maneuvering heavy equipment on steep slopes, and deep and spongy tire piles; controlling massive volumes of oil and water runoff; coordinating with local and state governmental agencies; forming a fully integrated and effective Incident Command System led by a Unified Command (ICS/UC); and recycling of pyrolytic oil under current California hazardous waste regulations.
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Packard, Richard, Mike Popovich, and John Stengel. "Massachusetts First Responder Exercises: Preparing Local Communities for Oil Spill Response." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2014, no. 1 (May 1, 2014): 300125. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2014-1-300125.1.
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As a result of the Buzzards Bay oil spill in 2003, and subsequent passage of the Oil Spill Act of 2004, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through its Department of Environmental Protection's (MassDEP) Oil Spill Program, has developed a comprehensive, 3-tiered program to protect coastal resources. The program includes three elements: 1) the development of 160 Geographic Response Plans (GRP) to protect environmentally sensitive areas, 2) the acquisition and distribution of 83 oil spill response equipment trailers to coastal communities and, 3) the development of a training and exercise program to better prepare local first responders, including fire departments, police departments, harbormasters and other town officials, to respond to oil spills that threaten environmentally sensitive areas in their communities. This training and exercise program has increased first responders competency and skills as they relate to oil spill response resulting in a higher degree of readiness and preparedness amongst first responders throughout coastal Massachusetts. The program follows standard Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation protocols with clearly defined goals and objectives. Each exercise includes personnel from multiple municipalities working together to achieve the common goal of protecting coastal resources. The objectives of each exercise include, 1) foster inter-agency planning and coordination by providing the opportunity for local responders to work with each other and with Federal and State responders. 2) deploy a GRP protective booming tactic during a simulated incident, 3) promote resource coordination among local responders by coordinating use of assets from participating towns and agencies, 4) improve local oil spill preparedness by deploying equipment from pre-positioned trailers, providing participants hands-on experience in the field, and 5) evaluate the effectiveness of the booming tactic and identify any modifications necessary. Participants utilize the Incident Command System (ICS), operating within a Unified Command structure, testing their ability to effectively communicate goals, objectives and tactics.
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Leonard, Joseph J., Michael Drieu, and Robert W. Royall. "IMPROVING MARINE FIREFIGHTING AND SALVAGE RESPONSE USING A NON-REGULATORY APPROACH THROUGH KEY STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2005, no. 1 (May 1, 2005): 295–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2005-1-295.
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ABSTRACT While catastrophic marine fires are a rare event, minor shipboard fires do have a significant potential for damage and a potential impact on the marine transportation system. As such, it is critical that responders at the federal, state, local, industrial, and contractor levels be trained and prepared to conduct timely operations to mitigate any incidents that occur. Due to the nature of services performed in the firefighting community today (fire suppression, rescue, hazardous materials response, and emergency medical services, to name but a few), time and effort is not always dedicated towards responding to events onboard vessels. As over 70% of fire departments in the United States are volunteer departments, this has the potential to become even more of an issue. In addition, shipboard fires typically require some level of participation from a marine salvor. Depending on the damage to the vessel, this may involve significant salvage activities. The number of salvors scattered throughout the United States is somewhat limited, and their home base locations dictate their response times to specific geographic areas. Critical issues that need to be addressed by senior response managers who may find themselves involved in responding to vessel fires include: 1. Establishment of an effective Unified Command to address all stakeholder issues, 2. Enhancing knowledge of regional capabilities and resources to respond to shipboard fires and resultant salvage activities, 3. Ensuring appropriate training of response personnel that meets recognized standards (such as NFPA 1405), and 4. Developing, exercising, and validating plans to respond to shipboard fires and salvage activities. Efforts throughout the Eighth Coast Guard District over the past several years have begun to address many of these issues, with enhanced incident management training, challenging exercises to validate plans, and extensive workshops to improve responder knowledge being a few of the positive steps. Only by addressing these four critical areas can response managers be assured of an effective and efficient response that would minimize the impact to the marine transportation system.
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Muskat, Judd, Mark Lampinen, and Randy Imai. "THE USE OF GIS TECHNOLOGY AT THE CALIFORNIA SONS 2004 EXTRAVAGANZA." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2005, no. 1 (May 1, 2005): 367–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2005-1-367.
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ABSTRACT Geographic Information System (GIS) support has become a basic tool for oil spill response because of the inherent data management, analysis, and display capabilities. Presented here are example GIS maps from the 2004 California Spill of National Significance (SONS) exercise. The SONS scenario had two major spill incidents occurring off the coast of southern California requiring a massive response from State, Federal and Local agencies. The exercise locations included Port-level incident command posts (ICP) in San Diego, Los Angeles and Ensenada, Mexico. A regional ICP for the US Coast Guard (USCG) National Incident Command (NIC) was established in Los Alamitos, CA, and USCG National Response Team activities occurred in Washington, DC. The California Department of Fish and Games (CDFG) Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) had GIS equipment and personnel deployed at the three southern California ICP locations. GIS data was electronically transferred between the three ICPs through email attachments to GIS personnel directly, or via internet file transfer protocol (ftp) to a secure internet site. GIS data layers were transmitted in ESRI shapefile format while map files were transmitted in Adobe PDF file format. In addition to the GIS activities at the three ICPs, an internet mapping site (using ArcIms software) was available on-line for the duration of the SONS drill housed on a secure server located in Sacramento, CA. GIS data layer sharing at the individual ICP's was achieved using USB data “sticks”. Oil slick trajectory models run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) Hazmat team were imported into the GIS via the GNOME extension to ArcView. Airborne observation teams were employed to document marine or coastal species that were either in immediate danger or already impacted in real time. The airborne pelagic transects were captured via GPS and waypoints were marked for key observations. These data were transmitted to the ICP via email upon landing. During an oil spill emergency large amounts of data are generated and utilized, much with a geospatial component. The inherent ability to import and display convergent data layers provides the incident Unified Command with a powerful decision making tool.
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Hsiau, Yawen, Yu-Han Liu, and Chi-Chun Lin. "Emergency Response Training Program for Theme Parks: Experiences of Taiwan." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 34, s1 (May 2019): s126—s127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x19002735.
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Introduction:“Tailor-made” training programs have been started in two theme parks in North and East Taiwan after the dust explosion of Ba-xien theme park in 2015. The training programs emphasized several areas. They work to strengthen the incident command system (ICS) and the skills of first responders, especially evacuation, placement, triage, and first aid, as well as to assist the park’s cooperation with local disaster response units, such as the fire department and Health Bureau.Methods:The first step was to find out the practical problems of the two theme parks, and then make a one-year, tailor-made training program according to the needs of parks and different levels of staff: senior supervisors, middle-level district supervisors, and frontline colleagues. After the phased training, the training results are inspected in the non-scripted exercise mode.Results:It was found that the staff are relatively familiar with the evacuation process and placement of tourists. The initial emergency responses such as triage, first aid skills, and patient transport gradually improve after several drills. The ICS operation and communication also became more effective and efficient. The regional emergency response units could understand these theme parks capability and how to cooperate with them.Discussion:The experience of emergency response training and exercise in these two theme parks has shown that such a model is feasible and should be valued.
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Jamieson, Gil. "NIMS AND THE INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2005, no. 1 (May 1, 2005): 291–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2005-1-291.
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The way this nation prepares for and responds to domestic incidents is about to change. It won't be an abrupt change; best practices that have been developed over the years are part of this new comprehensive national approach to incident management known as the National Incident Management System (NIMS). But it will change—and for the better. Developed by the Department of Homeland Security and issued in March 2004, the NIMS will enable responders at all jurisdictional levels and across all disciplines to work together more effectively and efficiently. Beginning in FY 2006, federal funding for state, local and tribal preparedness grants will be tied to compliance with the NIMS. One of the most important ‘best practices’ that has been incorporated into the NIMS is the Incident Command System (ICS), a standard, on-scene, all-hazards incident management system already in use by firefighters, hazardous materials teams, rescuers and emergency medical teams. The ICS has been established by the NIMS as the standardized incident organizational structure for the management of all incidents. Although many agencies now use various forms of ICS, there is considerable uncertainty about NIMS ICS and the impact it will have on systems and processes currently in place. These are important questions because one of the FY 2005 requirements for implementing NIMS is “institutionalizing the use of ICS, across the entire response system.” This paper is intended to provide an historical perspective on the development of ICS, explain how NIMS ICS works, describe how it is different from previous systems, and discuss the future of NIMS ICS training.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fire Department Incident Command System"
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Hanifen, Randall W. "Comparing Collaboration between the Fire Department and Emergency Management Agency to the Incident Command System." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3731400.
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Disaster management requires collaboration for effective and efficient outcomes. Current disaster management requires utilization of the National Incident Management’s Incident Command System (ICS), which bases its fundamentals in command and control. The study examined the problem of misalignment in needed knowledge, skills and abilities for effective collaboration between the fire department and the local emergency management agency (EMA) as compared to the current edition of the National Incident Management System. The purpose of the study involved extending current collaboration theories into collaboration between the fire department and the local EMA, as well as, identifying differences in current ICS curricula. The qualitative multiple case study surveyed and interviewed 17 local EMA and fire department personnel within the original Urban Area Security Initiate areas in the State of Ohio and compared the findings of the interviews to the current ICS curriculum to determine gaps and contradictions. The study found communication, management of personnel and process, and trust as the leadership, management, and personal trait themes needed to enhance collaboration between the local EMA and the fire department. When compared to the ICS curricula only a small percentage (12%) of the collaboration themes existed within the curriculum. A recommendation for further research included expansion of the study to include all 50 states. Recommendations for practical application included the addition of a course in two-way communication within the ICS and fire administration higher education curriculums.
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O'Neill, Brian. "A model assessment tool for the incident command system : a case study of the San Antonio Fire Department /." View online, 2008. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/270.
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Fugate, Jeremiah S. "LEAN FIRE MANAGEMENT: A FOCUSED ANALYSIS OF THE INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM BASED ON TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM PRINCIPLES." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/me_etds/49.
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A primary role of the Incident Command System is to learn from past incidents, as illustrated by its origins in the wildland firefighting community. Successful emergency response operations under the Incident Command System has prompted its nationwide spread, this promulgation critically relies on the system’s capability to stabilize and continuously improve various aspects of emergency response through effective organizational learning. The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential to apply fundamental principles of the Toyota Production System (Lean manufacturing) to improve learning effectiveness within the Incident Command System. An in-depth review of literature and training documents regarding both systems revealed common goals and functional similarities, including the importance of continuous improvement. While these similarities point to the validity of applying Lean principles to the Incident Command System, a focus on the systematic learning function of the Incident Command System culminated in the discovery of gaps in approaches proposed by the Incident Command System framework. As a result, recommendations are made for adjustments in systematic problem solving to adapt Lean principles of root cause analysis and emphasis on standardization of successful countermeasures to benefit the system. Future recommendations are also proposed based on the author’s understanding of the system.
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Esposito, John M. "New York City Fire Department chief officer's evaluation of the citywide incident management system as it pertains to interagency emergency response." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5604.
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A review of the events of September 11 in New York City shows that inadequate inter-agency coordination or interdisciplinary collaboration existed among the rescuers arriving at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. The 9/11 Commission recommended and NIMS mandated better coordination between the several agencies, specifically the fire and police departments. In 2004, New York City created the Citywide Incident Management System (CIMS) to address these shortcomings. The goal of this research is to provide an evaluation of CIMS several years after implementation; has it changed emergency response in New York City or are the same problems occurring? A survey of the FDNY chief officers was conducted and the results show that CIMS' policies are not consistently enacted. The history and creation of CIMS shortly following the September 11 terrorist attacks is discussed along with a brief background on interagency emergency operations. The history of conflict between the FDNY and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and its motives are not the subject of this thesis, although they are discussed briefly. In closing, many of the same problems that plagued the emergency responders on September 11 still exist according to the survey results.
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蘇裕銘. "A Research of the Key Success Factors of Enforcing the Incident Command System in Taiwan’s Fire Department." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62ak6k.
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Li, Wei-Ren, and 李偉仁. "Investigation on fire fighting and rescue in application of incident command system of fire bureau of Chiayi County." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16197319510557358656.
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LIN, TZU-CHAU, and 林子超. "Major Disaster Incident Command System and Its Application: The Case of Yunlin County Fire Bureau." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tbunu8.
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碩士國立中正大學
戰略暨國際事務研究所
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Ruthless disasters always come fast, resulting in significant loss of human lives and property. In addition to enhance the people's awareness of disaster prevention, each unit of disaster Prevention and Relief responsibilities should do disaster prevention and preparation in peacetime indeed so that we can execute disaster recovery and response effectively when disaster happens. Take serious disaster happened in recent years in Taiwan for example.There are many rescue units in the disaster scene, but with the lack of a common language and coordination between the various units, which results in poor integration such as command system disorder, hard integration of resources and lack of supply and so on. Therefore, delay the schedule of disaster rescue processing. Moreover, there is a largest domestic petrochemical industrial park in Yunlin, Formosa Plastics Corp's sixth naphtha cracker complex. Since 2010, there have been more than 10 cases of fire disasters in this park. In this study, based on the concept of Incident Command System, draw up a suitable command system for Yunlin fire-fighting department in the face of terrible accidents occurred in the Yunlin - Formosa Plastics Corp's sixth naphtha cracker complex. In the other hand, clarify the role of responsible authorities and the other support disaster relief agencies. The purpose of this research is to clarify the theoretical framework of the incident response system. At the same time, take the domestic terrible disaster in recent years as the case of education, and try to analyze the command system in each case. Furthermore, apply these to the disaster rescue of Yunlin fire-fighting department to ensure the maximal effectiveness of disaster relief.
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Chang, Chun-Ta, and 張俊達. "The Research on 911 Command Center using the Incident Dispatch Operation Model –Case Study to fire alarm of New Taipei City Fire Department." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c8dw62.
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碩士健行科技大學
土木工程系空間資訊與防災科技碩士班
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In recent years, severe disasters happened frequently. When a catastrophe occurred, numerous report phone calls and the disaster scene of the ever-changing information flocked, resulting in full line and network congestion in 911 emergency rescue command center, which leads to that the 911 command center couldn’t master disaster information completely and accurately, and even affects the dispatch assignments of fire engines, causing the disaster expands. This study aims at exploring the incident dispatch operation mode of 911 emergency rescue command center in fire department when the major disaster occurred, expecting to master the major information of the disaster, and multitasking on other emergency and rescue cases to protect people''s safety and reduce property damage.
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Tseng, Chien-Chang, and 曾健彰. "Incident Command and Control System in Vehicle Tunnel Fire–A Case Study of Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4t4s3c.
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碩士國立高雄科技大學
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The Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel connecting Kaohsiung City and Cijin Area is the only road for the residents of Cijin and the Kaohsiung Container Center. In recent years, the Kaohsiung City Government has built and rebuilt some large-scale construction to build the island of Cijin. In the event of a serious fire in the tunnel, the operation of the tunnel will be interrupted and a large number of casualties will be caused by the passers-by. In the 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel and the St. Gotthard Tunnel fire in 2001, disaster relief personnel were very difficult to enter and rescue. Although the cross-harbor tunnel is designed with two-hole one-way, it only opens a single-hole tunnel for two-way traffic during regular maintenance, which increases the difficulty of escape and disaster relief in the event of an accident. The Command and Control of Incident Operations (CCIO) implemented by the fire department is to gradually group the disaster relief energy from small to large according to the disaster relief module. As this tunnel is adjacent to the harbor, the effects of natural winds must be taken into account. Since the numerical simulations determine the impact of natural winds on fire scenarios are very serious in this study, it is shown that the effects of natural winds must be considered in disaster relief strategies. The results have not been proposed in the past. When the scale of the accident exceeds the disaster relief energy of the harbor area, the disaster relief organization should be included in the cooperation of the neighboring disaster rescue agency. How to coordinate and communicate with each other in common terms and operational procedures is an extremely important issue, in the early stages of the disaster. Timely integration of resources, improved deployment efficiency, and information on collecting disaster relief energy are also worthy of in-depth review.
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Yao, Chih-Kai, and 姚智凱. "A study on 119 command center for improving positional accuracy of incident report process – A case study of New Taipei City Fire Department." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gz8yw6.
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The facts of high population density as well as over exploited land accompanied by technological progress has caused the increasing demand of emergency services when natural disasters or accidents occur. In recent years,119 emergency command centers has been established over Taiwan to centralize phone calls in order to provide immediate response. 119 emergency command centers are highly responsible for life rescue, they play an important roles between residents and emergency units, the number of phone calls have been increasing dramatically over the past years, receiving correct information in every urgent calls are highly relevant to every life and property. This research is based on the number of calls received by the 119 command center which caused the delay of emergency rescue due to misunderstanding of communication, by using Root Cause Analysis to find out the potential mistake, analyze and provide improving methods so all the operators can follow the SOP to convey the correct information to minimize the wrong decision.
Books on the topic "Fire Department Incident Command System"
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Okray, Randy. Crew resource management for the fire service. Tulsa, Okla: PennWell Corp., 2004.
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International Association of Fire Chiefs., ed. Exam prep: Fire department safety officer. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2006.
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Hirst, Ben A. Exam prep: Fire department apparatus driver operator. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2005.
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Academy, National Fire, ed. Incident command system: Student manual. [Emmitsburg, Md.?]: Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Fire Administration, National Fire Academy, 1999.
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Government, U. S., U. S. Fire Administration, and National Fire Academy. U. S. Fire Administration and National Fire Academy Field Operations Guide (FOG) - ICS 420-1 - Guidance for the Application of the Incident Command System (ICS), Command, Planning, Multi-Casualty. Independently Published, 2017.
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Concepts of Incident Command System for the Caribbean Region. A Manual for Participants. Pan American Health Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37774/9789275123287.
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The Incident Command System (ICS) is a management tool for coordinating incidents or events that may exceed the daily capacity to respond. Most Caribbean countries have adopted the ICS as their standard for emergency response and operational deployment. It is critical to provide training for all first responders (i.e., law enforcement, fire, or emergency medical services personnel) who may be called upon to function in an ICS environment. The need for training extends to NGOs as well.
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Wei, Shuge. "From Nanjing to Chongqing." In News Under Fire. Hong Kong University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390618.003.0008.
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Chapter 7 looks into the government’s efforts to further centralize the international propaganda system. Hollington Tong became the key person in charge of the process. With the support of Chiang Kai-shek and Madam Chiang, he prevented Chiang’s political rivals from making further inroads into the propaganda system. He established the International Department that oversaw the government’s international propaganda at home and abroad. Based on his personal networks in the treaty ports, Tong effectively expanded China’s propaganda network in the United States and Britain. The propaganda activities organized by Tong after the Nanjing Incident of 1937 testified to the efficacy of the new department.
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Devadevan V. and Suresh Sankaranarayanan. "Forest Fire Information System Using Wireless Sensor Network." In Environmental Information Systems, 894–911. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7033-2.ch039.
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Forest fire is the most common hazard which is a great threat to the ecosystem. Remote Sensing and GIS are widely used for forest fire detection. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an emerging technology which is used to monitor environmental parameters towards alerting forest department officers for prevention or control. In this research, the authors developed Forest Fire Information System (FFIS) that provides interface to monitor, assess and analyze the forest fire data emanating from WSN which is a part of Intelligent Forest Fire Detection System. The information system also maintains necessary details of forest fire incidents that can be used for analysis and report generation. It also has a Decision Support System (DSS) integrated into it that can be used by forest officials for strategic planning. This has been developed using PHP and MySQL. This paper is an extension of research work carried about Intelligent Forest Fire Detection System using WSN.
Conference papers on the topic "Fire Department Incident Command System"
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Deng, Liang. "Design and Implementation of the Normalized Comprehensive Alarming System in Guangzhou Fire Department Command Center." In 2014 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icicta.2014.48.
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Morentz, James W. "Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) pilots take information sharing to the real world of incident management: A department of homeland security initiative for information sharing among commercial, government, academic, and volunteer technology providers to support the national incident management system." In 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ths.2010.5654976.
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Messias de Oliveira Souza, Emanuel, Matheus Rudolfo Diedrich Ullmann, and Tiago Do Carmo Nogueira. "SCIUloT: Sistema de Combate aos lncendios Urbanos por meio daloT." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v11n1.p068-070.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a communication paradigm that aims to cover the current Internet. In this sense, IoT covers a large space in the daily life of human beings, whether in the academic field or in the industrial sphere, therefore, there are smarter cities, health and automation of environments. Through the IoT it is possible to connect the objects of the everyday world to the Internet, in order to make these objects communicate with each other and with users. This work presents the way in which the IoT can corroborate in the fight against Urban Fires, through a system that interacts sensors, microcontrollers, the user and the Fire Department. The use of sensors that collect information about a certain location, send it to a controller board, which in turn forwards that information to the server, which directs the information to the user and the Fire Department, is the mechanism that will allow firefighters to be alerted to the incident. In this way, the work of the competent bodies can be made more effusive and, therefore, prevent the spread of fire in order to fight fires. It is worth mentioning that the rapid action of firefighters is extremely important, as the fire spreads quickly and produces incalculable damage.
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Allan, R. G., K. D. Harford, D. Noon, J. Bjerkeset, J. Dalton, and W. Siegel. "Concept Development, Detailed Design and Construction of the Three Forty Three – North America's Most Powerful Fireboat." In SNAME Maritime Convention. SNAME, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/smc-2010-t18.
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This paper reviews the process of the complete design development, from concept to completion of the largest and most capable fireboats in North America, and among the largest in the world, for the Fire Department of New York (FDNY). The Three Forty-Three is the first of two new fireboats to this design built at Eastern Shipbuilding Inc. of Panama City, Florida and delivered in May 2010. The second vessel is due for completion later in the year. As the result of an international design competition, Robert Allan Ltd. was selected to provide complete engineering and design services for the new boats, from initial concept through detailed engineering design and a comprehensive value engineering process. The scope of services also included the support of FDNY through every stage of major component procurement and the shipbuilding contract award. Robert Allan Ltd.’s shipyard supervisory staff also acted in the capacity of Owner’s Representatives on-site in the shipyard throughout the entire construction process. These major, fast response fireboats were designed to specifically address the fire-fighting and rescue needs of the greater New York harbour, including the New Jersey shore. This includes the capability within the vessel to respond to any CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) incident. The fireboats are designed for a response speed of 17.4 knots, with a low-wake, 12 knot cruising/patrol speed. The powering, seakeeping, and wake generation characteristics of the semi-displacement hull form were all verified in an extensive model-testing program. The resulting propulsion system is a unique quadruple screw, CPP configuration. The paper focuses on the various initial studies performed to establish the basic design configuration, the model testing and performance verification process, the value engineering studies performed, the many unique design features of the fire-fighting and emergency response capability of these vessels and the performance trials results. Finally, the challenges of managing a major shipbuilding project for a major civic Government Client such as FDNY concludes the paper.
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Schneider, Jerry, Jeffrey Wagner, and Judy Connell. "Restoring Public Trust While Tearing Down Site in Rural Ohio." In The 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2007-7319.
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In the mid-1980s, the impact of three decades of uranium processing near rural Fernald, Ohio, 18 miles northwest of Cincinnati, became the centre of national public controversy. When a series of incidents at the uranium foundry brought to light the years of contamination to the environment and surrounding farmland communities, local citizens’ groups united and demanded a role in determining the plans for cleaning up the site. One citizens’ group, Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health (FRESH), formed in 1984 following reports that nearly 300 pounds of enriched uranium oxide had been released from a dust-collector system, and three off-property wells south of the site were contaminated with uranium. For 22 years, FRESH monitored activities at Fernald and participated in the decision-making process with management and regulators. The job of FRESH ended on 19 January this year when the U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson — flanked by local, state, and national elected officials, and citizen-led environmental watchdog groups including FRESH — officially declared the Fernald Site clean of all nuclear contamination and open to public access. It marked the end of a remarkable turnaround in public confidence and trust that had attracted critical reports from around the world: the Cincinnati Enquirer; U.S. national news programs 60 Minutes, 20/20, Nightline, and 48 Hours; worldwide media outlets from the British Broadcasting Company and Canadian Broadcasting Company; Japanese newspapers; and German reporters. When personnel from Fluor arrived in 1992, the management team thought it understood the issues and concerns of each stakeholder group, and was determined to implement the decommissioning scope of work aggressively, confident that stakeholders would agree with its plans. This approach resulted in strained relationships with opinion leaders during the early months of Fluor’s contract. To forge better relationships, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) who owns the site, and Fluor embarked on three new strategies based on engaging citizens and interested stakeholder groups in the decision-making process. The first strategy was opening communication channels with site leadership, technical staff, and regulators. This strategy combined a strong public-information program with two-way communications between management and the community, soliciting and encouraging stakeholder participation early in the decision-making process. Fluor’s public-participation strategy exceeded the “check-the-box” approach common within the nuclear-weapons complex, and set a national standard that stands alone today. The second stakeholder-engagement strategy sprang from mending fences with the regulators and the community. The approach for dispositioning low-level waste was a 25-year plan to ship it off the site. Working with stakeholders, DOE and Fluor were able to convince the community to accept a plan to safely store waste permanently on site, which would save 15 years of cleanup and millions of dollars in cost. The third strategy addressed the potentially long delays in finalizing remedial action plans due to formal public comment periods and State and Federal regulatory approvals. Working closely with the U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) and other stakeholders, DOE and Fluor were able to secure approvals of five Records of Decision on time – a first for the DOE complex. Developing open and honest relationships with union leaders, the workforce, regulators and community groups played a major role in DOE and Fluor cleaning up and closing the site. Using lessons learned at Fernald, DOE was able to resolve challenges at other sites, including worker transition, labour disputes, and damaged relationships with regulators and the community. It took significant time early in the project to convince the workforce that their future lay in cleanup, not in holding out hope for production to resume. It took more time to repair relationships with Ohio regulators and the local community. Developing these relationships over the years required constant, open communications between site decision makers and stakeholders to identify issues and to overcome potential barriers. Fluor’s open public-participation strategy resulted in stakeholder consensus of five remedial-action plans that directed Fernald cleanup. This strategy included establishing a public-participation program that emphasized a shared-decision making process and abandoned the government’s traditional, non-participatory “Decide, Announce, Defend” approach. Fernald’s program became a model within the DOE complex for effective public participation. Fluor led the formation of the first DOE site-specific advisory board dedicated to remediation and closure. The board was successful at building consensus on critical issues affecting long-term site remediation, such as cleanup levels, waste disposal and final land use. Fluor created innovative public outreach tools, such as “Cleanopoly,” based on the Monopoly game, to help illustrate complex concepts, including risk levels, remediation techniques, and associated costs. These innovative tools helped DOE and Fluor gain stakeholder consensus on all cleanup plans. To commemorate the outstanding commitment of Fernald stakeholders to this massive environmental-restoration project, Fluor donated $20,000 to build the Weapons to Wetlands Grove overlooking the former 136-acre production area. The grove contains 24 trees, each dedicated to “[a] leader(s) behind the Fernald cleanup.” Over the years, Fluor, through the Fluor Foundation, also invested in educational and humanitarian projects, contributing nearly $2 million to communities in southwestern Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Further, to help offset the economic impact of the site’s closing to the community, DOE and Fluor promoted economic development in the region by donating excess equipment and property to local schools and townships. This paper discusses the details of the public-involvement program — from inception through maturity — and presents some lessons learned that can be applied to other similar projects.
Reports on the topic "Fire Department Incident Command System"
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Kerber, Steve, and Robin Zevotek. Fire Service Summary Report: Study of Residential Attic Fire Mitigation Tactics and Exterior Fire Spread Hazards on Firefighter Safety. UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute, November 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.54206/102376/pxtq2256.
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Attic fires pose many hazards for the fire service. When a fire occurs in an attic, it is common it goes unnoticed/reported until smoke or flames are visible from the outside of the structure. Because they take longer to detect, attic fires are more dangerous for firefighters and residents. In a fire situation, the attic ventilation system, which is designed to reduce moisture accumulation by drawing fresh air low from the eaves and exhausting moisture laden warm air near the peak, create an optimal fire growth and spread situation by supplying oxygen to the fire and exhausting hot gases. An estimated 10,000 residential attic fires are reported to U.S. fire departments each year and cause an estimated 30 civilian deaths, 125 civilian injuries and $477 million in property loss. The location of the attic creates several difficulties for the fire service. Firefighters must decide whether to fight the fire from inside the structure, from the outside or a combination of the two. This the decision is complicated by the constant hazard of ceiling collapse, which has the potential to rapidly deteriorate conditions in the living spaces. A piece of gypsum board may fall or be pulled from the ceiling making the relatively clear and cool conditions in the living space change very quickly endangering firefighters executing a search and rescue operation as part of their life safety mission. Further complicating the decision are the hazards associated with roof structure collapse, creating deadly conditions for firefighters operating on and under the roof. Structural collapse accounted for 180 firefighter deaths between 1979 and 2002 of which one-third occurred in residential structures . Many of these incidents involved a roof falling on firefighters or firefighters falling through the roof during firefighting operations on attic fires. The purpose of this study is to increase firefighter safety by providing the fire service with scientific knowledge on the dynamics of attic and exterior fires and the influence of coordinated fire mitigation tactics from full-scale fire testing in realistic residential structures.
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Kerber, Steve, and Robin Zevotek. Study of Residential Attic Fire Mitigation Tactics and Exterior Fire Spread Hazards on Firefighter Safety Released. UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute, November 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.54206/102376/lihb1439.
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Attic fires pose many hazards for the fire service. When a fire occurs in an attic, it is common it goes unnoticed/reported until smoke or flames are visible from the outside of the structure. Because they take longer to detect, attic fires are more dangerous for firefighters and residents. In a fire situation, the attic ventilation system, which is designed to reduce moisture accumulation by drawing fresh air low from the eaves and exhausting moisture laden warm air near the peak, create an optimal fire growth and spread situation by supplying oxygen to the fire and exhausting hot gases. An estimated 10,000 residential attic fires are reported to U.S. fire departments each year and cause an estimated 30 civilian deaths, 125 civilian injuries and $477 million in property loss. The location of the attic creates several difficulties for the fire service. Firefighters must decide whether to fight the fire from inside the structure, from the outside or a combination of the two. This the decision is complicated by the constant hazard of ceiling collapse, which has the potential to rapidly deteriorate conditions in the living spaces. A piece of gypsum board may fall or be pulled from the ceiling making the relatively clear and cool conditions in the living space change very quickly endangering firefighters executing a search and rescue operation as part of their life safety mission. Further complicating the decision are the hazards associated with roof structure collapse, creating deadly conditions for firefighters operating on and under the roof. Structural collapse accounted for 180 firefighter deaths between 1979 and 2002 of which one-third occurred in residential structures . Many of these incidents involved a roof falling on firefighters or firefighters falling through the roof during firefighting operations on attic fires. The purpose of this study is to increase firefighter safety by providing the fire service with scientific knowledge on the dynamics of attic and exterior fires and the influence of coordinated fire mitigation tactics from full-scale fire testing in realistic residential structures.