Unit 8: All-Hazards

Instructions:

Review your assigned input and develop a response.

Be prepared to share your groups answers with the class.

Situation 1

You are a newly assigned task force leader who has been dispatched to an all-hazards assignment. You are uncertain on the type of incident and what resources you will be assigned. You’ve seen the afternoon news mention something about mudslides and sinkholes in the area. 

1. What are your thoughts on planning for this assignment? 

2. What do you take with you on the assignment?

Situation 2

When you arrive at the incident, a large tornado has ripped through the heart of a small community. There is not an ICP at this time and everyone seems confused as to the make-up of the incident organization. 

1. Who do contact for your assignment?

2. What Risk Management concerns do you have?

Situation 3

After you check in, you are assigned two ambulances with four personnel, two Type 3 engines, and one contract felling team with agency felling boss. Your assignment is to clear roadways of debris so that rescue personnel can access missing or injured people. You’re given a city roadmap and frequencies.

You have briefed your crew and started clearing the road, when you come across a downed powerline. 

1. What is your course of action?

Situation 4

You continue clearing roads. Twenty minutes later you come across a turned-over semi-truck with a placard on it; it’s leaking something from the tank and you aren’t sure what it is. You can hear someone yelling for help across the street from where the semi-truck is turned over. 

1. What is your course of action?

Situation 5

You begin rescue operations near where you heard someone yelling for help. You cannot see anyone; it is a fairly large pile of debris, and you hear multiple people calling for help. 

1. What is your course of action?