VFCA2017

Sessions Speakers Exhibitors Floor Plan Buzz

Adaptive Fireground Management for Command & Company Officers (Room 1AB)

There is an immediate need for today's emerging and operating command and company officers to increase their foundation of knowledge and insights related to the modern fire dynamics, building occupancy, building construction and fire protection engineering. This knowledge should then be used to adjust and modify traditional and conventional strategic operating profiles to modern research based tactics in order to safeguard companies, personnel and team compositions. Strategies and tactics must be based on occupancy risk, not occupancy type, and must have the combined adequacy of sufficient staffing, controlling the fire dynamics, fire flow and tactical patience orchestrated in a manner that identifies with the fire profiling, predictability of the occupancy profile and accounts for presumptive fire behavior. Structural fire engagement requires a balance of tactical discipline, tactical patience and predictive insights of the building executed within an Adaptive Fireground Management (AFM) model. This is an interactive and thought provoking program that challenges conventional fire service paradigms and explores leading edge theories from across the American fire service.