Answers to IQ 5 challenge-February 2004

• Establish Command
• Identify location of Command Post
• Size up situation
• Give initial radio report to Dispatch and incoming companies
• Establish water supply
• Position Engine just past the fire building leaving room for Ladder Co.
• Remind personnel –no freelancing
• Stretch attack line of appropriate diameter to seat of fire via safest, most accessible means available
• Locate, confine, extinguish fire
• Attack fire from unburned side
• Line between fire and victims
• Protect paths of egress
• Search and vent off line as conditions require
• Coordinate attack with Ventilation Group
• Protect Search Group
• Transfer Command as required, provide briefing to new IC
• Report conditions to Command as applicable