- Common Actions Taken
- 10 – Fire Control or Extinguishment
- 20 – Search and Rescue
- 30 – EMS and Transport
- 40 – Hazardous Condition
- 50 – Fire, Rescue, and Hazardous Conditions
- 60 – System and Services
- 70 – Assistance
- 80 – Information, Investigation, and Enforcement
- 90 – Fill-in, Standby
- Complete List of Actions Taken and Definitions
Common Actions Taken
10 – Fire Control or Extinguishment
11 – Extinguishment by fire service personnel.
12 – Salvage and overhaul.
13 – Establish fire lines around wildfire perimeter. Includes clearing firebreaks using direct, indirect, and burnout tactics as appropriate.
16 – Control fire (wildland). Includes when fire crews or resources completely surround the fire perimeter with control lines; extinguish any spot fires; burn any area adjacent to the fire side of the control lines; and cool down all hot spots that are immediate threats to the control line, until the lines can reasonably be expected to hold under foreseeable conditions.
20 – Search and Rescue
22 – Search for lost or missing person. Includes animals.
23 – Extrication or disentangling of a person. Excludes body recovery (24).
30 – EMS and Transport
301 – Assist Ambulance Service
31 – Provide first aid and check for injuries. Medical evaluation of patient.
32 – Provide basic life support (BLS).
40 – Hazardous Condition
42 – Hazardous materials detection, monitoring, sampling, and analysis using a variety of detection instruments including combustible gas indicators (CGIs) or explosimeter, oxygen monitors, colorimetric tubes, specific chemical monitors, and others. Results from these devices must be analyzed to provide information about the hazardous nature of the material or environment.
43 – Hazardous materials spill control and confinement. Includes confining or diking hazardous materials. These are actions taken to confine the product released to a limited area including the use of absorbents, damming/diking, diversion of liquid runoff, dispersion, retention, or vapor suppression.
50 – Fire, Rescue, and Hazardous Conditions
51 – Ventilate. Includes nonhazardous odor removal and removal of smoke from nonhazardous materials-related fires.
52 – Forcible entry, performed by fire service. Includes support to law enforcement.
55 – Establish safe area. Includes isolating the area affected by denying entry to unprotected persons and establishing hazard control zones (hot, warm, cold).
56 – Provide air supply.
57 – Provide light or electrical power.
58 – Operate apparatus or vehicle.
60 – System and Services
63 – Restore fire alarm system. Includes restoring fire alarm systems monitored by the fire service.
70 – Assistance
71 – Assist physically disabled. Includes providing non-medical assistance to physically disabled, handicapped, or elderly citizens.
72 – Assist animal. Includes animal rescue, extrication, removal, or transport.
73 – Provide manpower. Includes providing manpower to assist rescue/ambulance units lift patients or providing manpower to assist police.
78 – Control traffic. Includes setting up barricades and directing traffic.
80 – Information, Investigation, and Enforcement
81 – Incident command. Includes providing support to incident command activities.
83 – Provide information to the public or media.
86 – Investigate. Includes investigations done on arrival to determine the situation and post-incident investigations; and collecting incident information for incident reporting purposes
87 – Investigate. Fire out on arrival.
90 – Fill-in, Standby
93 – Canceled en route