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Question: Incident Time clock.
I have been real troubled lately to see firefighters dying in buildings 45 minutes to TWO HOURS after time of dispatch. As an incident continues in time the building becomes less stable and collapse or failure of some type is bound to occur. Does your department have a running incident clock and are those firefiighters on scene reminded of the time spent fighting fire?
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Comment by Joe Stoltz on April 13, 2008 at 9:58pm
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Our county has developed a benchmarking system that works like this:
A call for a reported structure fire (chimney, stove, smell of smoke, etc) is received. The dispatcher puts the call out, then starts a 15 minute timer.
When the timer beeps after 15 minutes, the dispatcher sets it for 15 minutes again, and notifies the IC by radio that we are 15 minutes into the incident.
This is repeated every 15 minutes until the IC calls the situation under control.
At the local level I also want to implement a timer on our accountability board, so we can know how long the attack crew(s) have been on air.
Hope this helps.
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