Fire Operations in the Urban

Interface

Unit 2
Initial Strategy and Action Plan
 Objectives

• List the three priorities when establishing

strategic goals.
• State the three operational modes.
• List five items which would influence your
resource order.
• List four subject areas to consider when
briefing and deploying your resources.
 Incident Priorities

Life safety

Incident stabilization

Property conservation
 Strategic Goals

Definition of Strategy:
Overall plan of action; broad statement
describing a major action to reduce the
impact of an incident.
 Strategic Goals

Ensure the safety of all firefighters,

residents & bystanders
Contain the fire to a given geographical area
Minimize damage within the fire boundary
Protect the school in Pinedale subdivision
 Tactical Objectives

Definition of Tactics:
Steps taken to achieve the strategic goals.
 Tactical Objectives
 Provide a briefing to all firefighters arriving on the scene.
 Locate, inform, and evacuate (if needed), all people within
the potential incident boundaries.
 Handcrews and heavy equipment pinch off fire from both
flanks.
 Utilize aircraft as needed with a priority to structure
defense.
 Utilize engine companies to set up hose lines, prepare
structures and burn out (if needed) to defend structures.
 Utilize dozers and engines to protect the Pinedale school.
 PRIORITIES STRATEGY
Ensure the safety of all
LIFE SAFETY firefighters, residents, and
bystanders
Hold the fire to the Goldcreek off from both flanks
INCIDENT STABILIZATION
drainage
Minimize damage to all
structures and improvements up hose lines, prepare
located within the fire
PROPERTY CONSERVATION boundaries
Protect the school located on
the edge of Pinedale
subdivision
TACTICS
Provide a briefing to all
firefighters arriving on the
scene
Locate, inform, and evacuate
(if needed) all people within the
potential incident boundaries
Hand crews and heavy
equipment will pinch the fire
Aircraft will be utilized as
needed with a priority to
structure defense
Utilize engine companies to set
structures, and burn out (if
needed) to defend structures
Utilize dozers and engines to
protect the Pinedale school
 PRIORITIES STRATEGY
Ensure the safety of all
LIFE SAFETY firefighters, residents, and
bystanders
Hold the fire to the Goldcreek off from both flanks
INCIDENT STABILIZATION
drainage
Minimize damage to all
structures and improvements up hose lines, prepare
located within the fire
PROPERTY CONSERVATION boundaries
Protect the school located on
the edge of Pinedale
subdivision
TACTICS
Provide a briefing to all
firefighters arriving on the
scene
Locate, inform, and evacuate
(if needed) all people within the
potential incident boundaries
Hand crews and heavy
equipment will pinch the fire
Aircraft will be utilized as
needed with a priority to
structure defense
Utilize engine companies to set
structures, and burn out (if
needed) to defend structures
Utilize dozers and engines to
protect the Pinedale school
 PRIORITIES STRATEGY
Ensure the safety of all
LIFE SAFETY firefighters, residents, and
bystanders
Hold the fire to the Goldcreek off from both flanks
INCIDENT STABILIZATION
drainage
Minimize damage to all
structures and improvements up hose lines, prepare
located within the fire
PROPERTY CONSERVATION boundaries
Protect the school located on
the edge of Pinedale
subdivision
TACTICS
Provide a briefing to all
firefighters arriving on the
scene
Locate, inform, and evacuate
(if needed) all people within the
potential incident boundaries
Hand crews and heavy
equipment will pinch the fire
Aircraft will be utilized as
needed with a priority to
structure defense
Utilize engine companies to set
structures, and burn out (if
needed) to defend structures
Utilize dozers and engines to
protect the Pinedale school
 Operational Modes

Operational Mode refers to the type of

attack to be made on the fire.
 Operational Modes

Offensive

Defensive

Combination
 Develop a Plan

Strategic goals and tactical objectives are

broken down into specific work tasks
• Tasks assigned based on priority and
operational mode
• Keep a written record of the Action Plan
– Simple incidents usually done from memory
– More complexity requires written plan
– Possibility of public/legal actions
 RESOURCE NEEDS
Size-up

 Structures and improvements

 Fuels
 Weather
 Topography
 Fire behavior
 Evacuation possibilities
 Response times
 RESOURCE NEEDS
Kind, Type, & Number
• Determine kind of resource needs
? Will hand crews be effective on a fast moving brush fire?
? Do you need air support . . . Will it be effective?
? Will dozers be effective?
• Order resources by ICS type
• Type 1 engine rating should bring the same type of engine
nationwide.
? Do you need large Type 1 or smaller Type 4 with 4x4 drive
trains?
? Do you want heavy dozers (Type 1) or lighter dozers (Type 2)?
• Number of resources needed
 RESOURCE NEEDS
Kind, Type, & Number (cont’d)

• Number of resources needed

40 ÷ 4 = 10 engines (2 S/T) 100 Total homes
+ 5 engines (1 S/T) to float/hotspot 40 Perimeter homes
= 15 engines (3 S/T)

FORMULA: # of perimeter homes divided by 4

With combustible roofs, add 5 engines (1 S/T)
 Briefing and Deployment
• Assignments
• Briefing
• Chain-of-Command
• Contingency plan
• Communication plan
• Verify understanding
• Maps
• Safety
 Definition Of Unified Command

A command structure which provides for all

agencies or individuals who have jurisdictional
responsibility (geographical or functional) to
jointly manage an incident through a common
set of objectives.
 Unified Command Applications

A B
Incidents that affect more than one
political jurisdiction
C
 Unified Command Applications

A Fire
Incidents involving multiple agencies
Law
Medical
within a jurisdiction
 Unified Command Applications

A B
Incidents that impact on multiple
C
geographic and functional agencies
D
E
 Unified Command Applications

A B
Incidents that affect more than one
political jurisdiction
C

A Fire
Incidents involving multiple agencies
Law
Medical
within a jurisdiction

A B
Incidents that impact on multiple
C
geographic and functional agencies
D
E
Under Unified Command, There Is:

• A single integrated incident organization.

• One Operations Section Chief to direct tactical
efforts.
• Collocated (shared) facilities.
• A single integrated planning process and
Incident Action Plan.
• Shared planning, logistical, and finance/
administration operations wherever possible.
• A coordinated process for resource ordering.
The Mix Of Participants In A Unified
Command Organization Depends On:

• The location of the incident, which often

determines the jurisdictions that must be
involved.
• The kind of incident, which dictates the
functional agencies of the involved
jurisdiction(s), as well as other agencies that
may be involved.
 Objectives: Review

• List the three priorities when establishing

strategic goals.
• State the three operational modes.
• List five items which would influence your
resource order.
• List four subject areas to consider when
briefing and deploying your resources.
Questions??