FireDOC Search

Author
Bricault, M.
Title
Residential Search and Rescue: Methodology.
Journal
Fire Engineering, Vol. 159, No. 3, 151-154, March 2006
Keywords
rescue | rescue operations | fire departments | fire fighters | fire fighting | visibility
Identifiers
Incident Command (IC); search is the act of fire fighters' looking for something (location of the fire, interior fire conditions or potential victims); rescue is the act of fire fighters' physically removing a victim from a dangerous environment to an area of relative safety; search method; anchor point method; start the search as close to the fire as possible