Outline should include
- locating the fire and determining its extent
- developing a plan of attack
- developing a mode of attack
- offensive
- defensive
- transitional
- determining the method of attack
- direct
- indirect
- transitional.
Other considerations should include
- rescue, exposures, confinement, extinguishment, and overhaul (RECEO)
- vent, enter, search (VES)
- rescue, fire control, and property conservation
- rescue, exposures, ventilation, attack, and salvage (REVAS)
- factors that affect the selection of fire stream, including
- proper stream type
- stream size
- stream placement
- timing
- water supply or quantity of water
- stream reach
- mobility needs
- tactics required
- speed of deployment
- personnel available.
Process/Skill Questions:
- What are the responsibilities of the first and second engine companies to arrive at the scene of a fire?
- What are some of the hazards involved with modern vehicle fires?
- What factors might affect arrival time after a call is made?