Deploy your resources accordingly through what ever a first alarm will bring you. If you want to expand your alarms, hey, have at it.

Some of you may have fought a fire or two in a building similar to this one or done an inspection at one.

Know your assignments and do them. The best attack is a coordinated one when everyone is doing what needs to be done to accomplish the overall goal; safely get in and out after putting the fire out and removing all victims.

Using multiple tools can make forcing entry much easier and more effective, so it is beneficial to have more than one tool.

Although everyone is responsible for safety and identifying unsafe conditions, the officer must continually keep a watchful eye on conditions.

Do you know how to read the smoke and recognize the signs of backdraft?

We need to plan for and be prepared for fires in vacant buildings. How do you approach these and do you do anything different with these buildings?

Get your crew together and make your assignments. There’s a fire and we need to make assignments.