Fire Service Acronyms
Reasons to give a Mayday, I O U My Total Life
- I – Imminent Collapse (Give your location and Building Location)
- O – Occurred Collapse (Location, part of Bldg affected and any FF’s affected)
- U – Unconscious FF (Your location and his location and name)
- My – Missing Member (LUNAR)
- L – Last known location
- U – Unit assigned
- N – Name of person
- A – Assignment for the tour
- R – Radio equipped or not
- Total – Trapped or Lost (what you hear or see)
- Life – Life threatening injury/condition
Reasons to give an Urgent message, Discontinue WIFE
- Discontinue – Discontinue interior attack and start exterior attack
- W – Water loss endangering members (identify units affected)
- I – Injury (non-life threatening)
- F – Fear of collapse (location)
- E – Exposures with fire (location)
What Ladder Companies need to be thinking and performing at fires, L O V E R S.
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L – Life, Ladders (portable or fixed), Locate (victims and/or fire)
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O – Opening Up, Overhaul
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V – Ventilation, Verify (address, entrapment, everything for operation), Victims
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E – Entry (anyway to get in), Extinguishment (CO2, foam can, ARFF, dry chem.,
purple K, can man carries 2 ½ gallon pressurized water can), Egress, Extension (of fire),
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R – Rescue (specialty unit), Ropes (Search, Utility, Life Saving)
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S – Size-up (Starts when you get the run, COAL WAS WEALTH), Search
(Primary and Secondary), Saws (circular, reciprocating, chain)
Four things that affect flashover, COSI.
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C – Construction type
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O – Oxygen Availability
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S – Size of room
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I – Insulation of room
Things to consider during Size-Up, COAL WAS WEALTH.
| C-Construction type |
W – Weather conditions |
| O-Occupancy |
E – Exposures |
| A-Area of fire |
A – Apparatus |
| L-Life (possible entrapment) |
L – Location |
| W-Water supply |
T – Time of Day |
| A-Auxiliary appliances |
H – Height of fire bldg |
| S-Street Conditions |
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Roof man’s order of duties, A B C D E F.
- A – Access (how did you get to the roof and how else could have you gotten to the roof)
- B – Brick work (firewall, check to make sure one is present or not, hit with tool)
Bulkhead (open and sweep to check for victims, make sure it stays open)
- C – Cockloft (take returns in scuttle to check for fire)
Communication (eyes of chief, what do you see, relay info to members on scene)
- D – Dimensions (of fire bldg, especially if it is an attached bldg.)
Dumbwaiter (open the shaft and check for fire spread)
- E – Extension (to exposure, floor above, voids, to cockloft)
If there is an exposure building on the 3 side
- F – Let boss know if you have ire from any widows (if so, how many and where)
Let boss and command know if there is fire in the cockloft
What water appliances do, ACDC.
- A – Applies water
- C – Combines water
- D – Divides water
- C – Controls water
Hose line placement priorities, LECE.
- L – Life
- E – Exposures
- C – Confinement
- E – Extinguishment
Things to have in your standpipe bag, GNC SOAP.
- G – In-line pressure gauge
- N – Nozzle (2 ½” nozzle with 1 1/8” or 1 ¼” Main Stream Tip, MST)
- C – Chock
- S – Spanners (2 of them)
- O – Operating Wheel (2 of them)
- A – Adapters (in case of federal bldgs)
- P – Pipe Wrench (18”)
Order of getting to roof for Multiple Dwellings, BAR.
- B – Adjoining BLDG
- A – Aerial Ladder
- R – Rear Fire Escape
What to do if you have the outside position of a ladder company, VES.
- V – Vent (vent the room from ladder, fire escape, porch roof, etc.)
- E – Enter (enter that room)
- S – Search (search the room)
Victim removal Priority, I Hate Free Loading Relatives.
- I – Interior Stairs
- Hate – Horizontal exits (other wings of bldg)
- Free – Fire escape (very difficult)
- Loading – Ladders (fixed or portable)
- Relatives – Rope
What to do if you find a down unconscious firefighter, PAM.
- P – PASS (turn off the PASS device, Personnel Alert Safety System)
- A – Air (check to see if the down FF has air)
- M – Mayday (put out a Mayday)
Order of FF’s for radio relay in the subway from street to subway, CORET
- C – Chauffeur
- O – Outside Vent Man
- R – Roof Man
- E – Engine Officer
- T – Truck Officer
One way to locate a FF trapped in a collapse, FAR.
- F – Feedback
- A – Assisted
- R – Rescue
Submitted by PHOEKZEMA on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 22:43.
