Determine Initial Priorities and Immediate Resource Requirements (Continued)

You have a lot of objectives for this incident. You will be pursuing multiple objectives simultaneously, but you also need to understand the priority of your objectives. Which of the objectives do you assess has the greatest importance?

From the choices below, which do you assess as your top priority objective?

  1. Provide medical care for injured personnel
  2. Mitigate flammable/ explosive materials
  3. Establish a controlled perimeter around the incident

 

Photo 1 Fire hose spraying truck fire. Photo 2 Responders helping patient in stretcher. Photo 3 Police barricade. Photo 4 Hazmat team in field.