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Recognizing the need to do more to prevent line-of-duty deaths and injuries, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation has launched a national initiative to bring prevention to the forefront.
In March 2004, the Firefighter Life Safety Summit was held in Tampa, Florida to address the need for change within the fire and emergency services. Through this meeting, 16 Life Safety Initiatives were produced to ensure that Everyone Goes Home®.
The first major action was to sponsor a national gathering of fire and emergency services leaders. Organized by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, the held in Tampa, Florida, in March 2004 produced 16 major initiatives that will give the fire service a blueprint for making changes.
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation will play a major role in helping the U.S. Fire Administration meet its stated goal to reduce the number of preventable firefighter fatalities. The Foundation sees fire service adoption of the summit’s initiatives as a vital step in meeting this goal.
The 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives
- Define and advocate the need for a cultural change within the fire service relating to safety; incorporating leadership, management, supervision, accountability and personal responsibility.
- Enhance the personal and organizational accountability for health and safety throughout the fire service.
- Focus greater attention on the integration of risk management with incident management at all levels, including strategic, tactical, and planning responsibilities.
- All firefighters must be empowered to stop unsafe practices.
- Develop and implement national standards for training, qualifications, and certification [including regular recertification] that are equally applicable to all firefighters based on the duties they are expected to perform.
- Develop and implement national medical and physical fitness standards that are equally applicable to all firefighters, based on the duties they are expected to perform.
- Create a national research agenda and data collection system that relates to the initiatives.
- Utilize available technology wherever it can produce higher levels of health and safety.
- Thoroughly investigate all firefighter fatalities, injuries, and near misses.
- Grant programs should support the implementation of safe practices and/or mandate safe practices as an eligibility requirement.
- National standards for emergency response policies and procedures should be developed and championed.
- National protocols for response to violent incidents should be developed and championed.
- Firefighters and their families must have access to counseling and psychological support.
- Public education must receive more resources and be championed as a critical fire and life safety program.
- Advocacy must be strengthened for the enforcement of codes and the installation of home fire sprinklers.
- Safety must be a primary consideration in the design of apparatus and equipment.
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» Initiatives 1 – 4 – View | Download
» Initiatives 5 – 8 –
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» Initiatives 9 – 12 – View | Download
» Initiatives 13 –
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Related Resources:
» 16 Initiatives in Español
» Power Point Presentations:
Part 1 | Part 2
» Resolution: Home Fire Sprinklers [Initiative 15]
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16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Handout
» 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Poster
» Everyone Goes Home® Bookmark
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What is the worst hazard at an incident scene?
The one that is not recognized
Who created the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives after examining the causes of line-of-duty fire fighter deaths?
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Which of the following groups comprises one or more companies assigned to initiate a rescue effort to locate, rescue, or assist fire fighters who are in trouble at the scene of an incident?
Rapid intervention crew
Which of the following agencies has created a regulation commonly known as "two in, two out" that applies when personnel are operating in atmospheres that require self-contained breathing apparatus?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Which firefighting operation involves fire fighters entering a burning structure and attacking the seat of the fire?
Offensive
After fire fighters enter a structure, what is their next step?
Primary search
Of the following protective equipment, which will protect fire fighters from inhaling chemicals but will not protect them from skin contact?
Self-contained breathing apparatus
Articles of personal protective equipment such as leather gloves and boots are made from porous leather and can become contaminated with harmful chemicals. What cannot be done to these types of materials?
They cannot be decontaminated.
Many modern buildings use truss roof construction, and older buildings often used bowstring truss roof construction. Which of these two types of roof construction can fail dramatically when exposed to fire?
Both truss and bowstring truss
Fires in which of the following structures are becoming more common with the advent of illegal drug manufacturing?
Meth labs
Before you enter a structure, what should you try to locate in case the fire gets out of control and cuts off your path?
Second way out
When fighting a fire in a high-rise, determine exactly which floors are on fire before using:
elevators
One of the first tasks at a structure fire is to cut off which utility to the fire structure?
Electrical service
Before raising a ladder, one of the cardinal rules is to look up first to ensure you are not raising a ladder into which obstacle that could injure fire fighters contacting the ladder?
Electrical lines
When responding to a structure that is protected by a sprinkler system, what must the pumper connect to in order to boost the supply of water to the sprinkler system?
Fire department connection
Which extinguishing agent, besides water, may cause more damage than fire to an electrical substation or vault?
Dry chemical extinguishers
In which type of firefighting operation is the basic method of extinguishment to apply water or fire retardant to the fire edge or to create a fire break around the perimeter?
Wildland
Using hand tools, crews can create a __________ line that breaks the fuel's continuity and stops the fire spread.
scratch
The basic safety rules of operating at a wildland fire are the 10 standard firefighting orders. Which of the following is NOT one of the standard orders?
Do not scout and size up the fire.
The basic safety rules for operating at a wildland fire are the 10 standard firefighting orders. Which of the following is one of the standard orders?
Post lookouts when there is possible danger.
Which of the following is NOT a component of the LCES mnemonic?
Enforcement
When fighting a wildland fire in the wildland-urban interface, a __________ should be placed at every structure to protect as many structures as possible.
pumper
When fighting fires at petroleum facilities, the primary objectives are to extinguish the fire and to:
control any leaks.
Which of the following problems associated with petroleum fires occurs when water is trapped under the surface of the oil, is heated by the oil, and boils, pushing the oil out the top of the tank?
Boilover
Which of the following problems associated with petroleum fires occurs when fire streams are applied to the burning liquid surface at such an angle that hot or burning oil is forced over the edge of the tank?
Slopover
Which of the following problems associated with petroleum fires occurs when fire streams are directed at an angle and plunge under the surface of the burning oil?
Frothover
When a pressurized gas cylinder is exposed to fire for a lengthy time and the container is not cooled by copious amounts of water, what catastrophic event could occur?
BLEVE
Which of the following Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations requires training to at least the first responder level for employees responding to incidents that involve hazardous materials?
29 CFR 1910.20
Which of the following are set up to keep personnel out of the areas designated as the hot zone, allowing only properly equipped and trained personnel into this area?
Perimeters
At hazardous materials incidents, who typically conducts the cleanup efforts once the incident is under control?
Private contractors
One of the primary problems involved in providing emergency medical assistance is avoiding exposure to bloodborne and airborne:
pathogens.
Which of the following E's of highway survival for working at roadside incidents covers minimizing the time spent on the side of the roadway and in high-risk areas?
Exposure
At what angle should automobile fires be approached to avoid injury from a propelled bumper?
45 degrees
What is the first priority in aircraft firefighting, allowing apparatus and firefighting personnel to approach and the victims who can rescue themselves to escape?
Create a path.
Which of the following elements of crew resource management can be described as maintaining attentiveness to the event?
Situational awareness
Which element of crew resource management is based on information from training, from experience, and from the scene?
Decision making
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