This incident occurs in a shopping mall. Two vehicles have apparently jumped the curb and plow into the entrances to the mall and an explosion and ensuing fire occur. The incident occurs on a Saturday afternoon in mid-December. Please view the entire video above.
Assume you are responsible for initially establishing command at this fire.
Other units responding are what your department would send on a report of a fire in this occupancy type.
Answer the questions below or make your own strategic, tactical, and task-level questions to answer.
Can crews safely effectively enter and work? Yes No
Could there be savable people inside? Yes No
Will you allow offensive (interior) operations? Yes No
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For Fire Attack: Size of Line (Control)__ : Taken in from and taken to: (Confine)_
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For Search
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For Back Up. How___
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John “Skip” Coleman retired as assistant chief from the Toledo (OH) Department of Fire and Rescue. He is a technical editor of Fire Engineering. a member of the FDIC Educational Advisory Board; and author of Incident Management for the Street-Smart Fire Officer (Fire Engineering, 1997), Managing Major Fires (Fire Engineering, 2000), Incident Management for the Street-Smart Fire Officer, Second Edition (Fire Engineering, 2008) and Searching Smarter (Fire Engineering 2011) and 2011 recipient of the FDIC Tom Brennan Lifetime Achievement Award.
