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I was just curious as to what everyone uses for accountability tags. Below is a picture of what ours look like and how they are kept on our helmets. They are kinda big but it makes you want to take it off and give it to someone especially when packed up!
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Permalink Reply by Gordon "Gopher" Runer on
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Thanks hopefully i can do some convincing.
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Permalink Reply by Jenny Holderby on
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Sometimes they are a PAIN. You will have folks argue that they (anyone not certified) have no place in a fire station or on a fire ground. We have 30 members. Like any other department, not all of them show up and on most calls we will have about 1/3 of them on a good day. The associates & Explorers fill in the gaps. I think the trick is making sure they are well trained for the tasks they CAN do.
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If the SO isn't available on a call the IC should assign an Incident Safety Officer. If he doesn't assign the task, he assumes that role himself as per ICS. Good guidelines.
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Permalink Reply by Kayla Bartlett on
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we have velcrow under our hements that we have 2 name tags on and one stays in the truck that we arrive in and the other goes to the person doing acountability at the scene...
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We are lucky if we get 7 or 8 people. We only have a total membership of about 15.
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Permalink Reply by Charles Lawrence on
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Jim, Kayla, you are doing pretty much the same thing we are. We just make our own tags to save cost and to make things easier. If a member loses a tag or one becomes damaged I can have a new one in their hands within minutes of returning from the call, having them ready for the next call. I can take a new member's picture and have tags for him as soon as they are ready to join us on a call. I'm not saying you should do this, just showing you another perspective on it and letting you know why we use the tags we do.
Bottom line is, as long as every member knows the procedures and follows them, you will always know where each member is if there would be a problem. I'm glad to see more and more departments doing it, we still try to work with neighboring departments to get them to adopt some kind of accountability.
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I think that we are the only department in the county that has accountability tags. Its scary when you think of it that way.
Gopher
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There are plenty of departments out there in the same boat you are. After we adopted our method, we wonder how we made it before when looking back. It has only been a few years since we started doing accountability.
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That's the funny thing about change. It is so hard to get done but when looking back on it you wonder how you ever managed without.
Gopher
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Permalink Reply by John on
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Our Dept uses a small plastic type tag with our rank and name on it with velcro on the back, during a call we all place our tags on the passport tag and place an engine ID patch on our helmets. The passport board is then passed up to the officer who finishes placing the drivers and his tag on it and then takes the smaller passport to command.
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We didn't really manage without it. We just didn't do it as formally a few years ago.
Twenty years ago, I was the dept secretary then too and the assistant to the chief. I took pains (typing & photocopying not spitting them out on the computer) member lists. They were in every truck and on every fire the Chief who was always the Incident Commander in those days knew exactly who was on scene and he knew were everyone was. When people think the Chief is standing there doing nothing you would be surprised what is going on in their head & what notes they are making both mental and on paper. Someone decided to call it "accountability" and have it documented. It isn't all that new to us old dogs. You can teach old dogs new tricks but they might have a few they can teach you in the process.
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My Chief passed away in 1996 so it has been more than 20 yrs ago that my first accuntability tag, which I still have, was made of brass on a key chain clipped to my gear. The tag was engraved with my name & unit number. Accountability isn't anything new.
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