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their own Divisions and keep
Command informed of who is there,
what they are doing, and who is
coming out to report back to the
Command Post to be moved to one of
the other status locations. To tie it
back into the first slide, disciplined
Command Post protocol practiced by
the entire fireground allows for a
smoother and safer operation.
Stay safe out there.
Quote of the day: To go nowhere,
follow the crowd.
keep the Company safe is if Command knows
where that Company is located on the
fireground. It is very simple, but requires
discipline. Lack of discipline is the reason for
most if not all fireground accountability
problems. A key to this is to remember that if
you are not doing this when nothing is showing
or when you are on the small incident, it is next
to impossible to pull it off in the big incident.
Practice at the small incident so you can shine at
the BIG ONE.
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The final slide below depicts
the method by which the
Incident Commander best
controls the entire fireground:
through reinforcement of the
process of decentralization.
Assigning Division
Commanders to the areas of
most concern will allow
Command to better control
the troops working in these
areas. Then, use these same
Division Commanders to do
the mini-PARS if you will, in
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