FIREFIGHTER ACCOUNTABILITY

Purpose: To establish an accurate method to account for all personnel assigned to an

incident.

Scope: This Policy applies to all department members.

Procedure:

Personnel responding on the apparatus shall forward their accountability

tag to the Officer, who will upon arrival at a scene, clip the tag-ring onto the

right side mirror bracket of the vehicle.

The Officer of Firefighter in the Officer’s seat or appointed as the leader of

a crew is in Command of this crew and is responsible for knowing the location

and actions of their firefighters at all times.

Personnel arriving in their personal vehicles are to report to the apparatus

from their Company. If the crew of that apparatus is still with it, personnel

may join that crew.

If the crew is gone from the apparatus, personnel may not join that team. The

member shall report to the Manpower Staging Area typically located behind the

Command Post.

Personnel in the Manpower Staging Area shall remain there until assigned by

Command . Once assigned to a task, accountability tags will be clipped to the

Officer in charge’s tag and handed to Command or his designee.

Officers or Chiefs arriving on scene shall hand their tags to Command or his

designee. Chief Officers arriving and entering the building prior to the arrival

of other Command personnel shall attach their tag to the antenna of their personal

vehicle to display that they are inside the building.

Command shall maintain a log of assignments to all crews and their locations.

In long term operations, Command will have the tags on the apparatus collected

by his designee and may do a P.A.R. check (Personnel Accountability Report)

at any time.

At the end of operations, all personnel are to reclaim their tag from Command

or their apparatus.

It is the responsibility of every member of this department to ensure his/her

tag is placed in an apparatus or with Command and to reclaim it at the

termination of operations.