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The 10 Standard Firefighting Orders and the 18 Watch Out Situations, as referenced in the Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG), PMS 461, provide wildland firefighters with a set of consistent best practices and a series of scenarios to be mindful of when responding to a wildland fire.
16 paź 2024 · Remaining alert, keeping calm, thinking clearly, and acting decisively are important components of decision-making on wildland fire incidents. This Standard Firefighting Order illustrates a supervisor providing direction and establishing leader's intent to help a crew working on a growing fire.
The document discusses the history and importance of the original 10 Standard Firefighting Orders. It notes that the orders were developed in the 1950s based on tragedy fires to provide a systematic approach to firefighting safety.
A genealogy of one significant organizational list, wildland firefighters’ 10 Standard Fire Orders, shows how a list’s meaning resides less on its face and more in the discourses surrounding it, which can change over time.
1 sty 2020 · The Ten Standard Fire Orders were created to aid in reducing firefighter injuries and deaths. When used in the way they were designed – to increase situational awareness, understand the fundamental fire behavior, and help in the decision process – they are highly effective.
The original ten Standard Firefighting Orders were developed in 1957 by a task force commissioned by the USDA-Forest Service Chief Richard E. McArdle. The task force reviewed the records of 16 tragedy fires that occurred from 1937 to 1956.
Standard Firefighting Orders. Keep informed on fire weather conditions and forecasts. Know what your fire is doing at all times. Base all actions on current and expected behavior of the fire. Identify escape routes and safety zones and make them known. Post lookouts when there is possible danger. Be alert.
