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Accountability
This question may apply more to the vollies out there, but maybe not. Some of our departments are still stuck with old fashioned methods of tracking fire ground accountabilty? What methods work best for you? Do you find accountability a low or a high priority among your firefighters and their officers? If so how do you deal with the issue? Who handles accountability on the scene? Do your chiefs and officers see this as mainly the Safety Officers job, or is the function assigned elsewhere? Discuss...
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Permalink Reply by Randy Macey on
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Our fire dept. has this, and it works pretty good. We have some issues and think that this will fall under any fire service issues. First off we have metal plates on each truck with key rings. So once on the truck we place our Picture I.D. Tags on the Truck Plate.
This Truck Plate has the truck number on it so that Accountability knows how many is on that truck, from there once on scene it is passed onto the first truck on the scene.
Once someone takes on the role of Accountability Officer, each station has on one of there trucks a master board. They can clip each Truck I.D. onto this masterboard, you have plenty of room to mark on this board. We also have magnets so that we can put other agencies on scene. We have some that are blank so we can add in names as well.
Once in the Hot Zone your tagged in, one out of the hot zone you can be tagged out. This is not as easy as it sounds and takes a lot of work on everyones part. But when it does work, it makes everyones job easier. Biggest issue is just that of man power. There is so much to do once you arrive on scene that a lot of things get over looked. But one thing we all must understand that we all come home. -
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