Objectives
* Discuss response modalities to residential, commercial, and other fireground calls.
* Be able to list conditions requiring rapid offensive versus defensive decisions for the first in officer.
* Review Line of Duty Deaths (LODD) and the importance of good front line decisions in their prevention.
* Review life safety versus property protection as separate goals..

Topic Highlights
Smaller and rural departments must often be more self sufficient than their big city counterparts where second, third, and fourth engine companies, multiple ladders, and heavy rescue companies are available. This session will cover the basics of handling residential, commercial, and other fireground situations with minimum personnel in an operationally effective and safe way.

Discussion will also include two in/two out, rapid intervention teams, and wtaer supply questions.

Audience/Track
This class is for the incident officer assigned to engine or quint companies.