Command exercise — Developing fire — day

What went well

• Good call — monitor at T+0 (“Conduct a 360 of the property first”).
• Good call — offensive internal at T+5 (“Make pumps 4, ready BA team for internal attack and search and rescue”).
• Good call — monitor at T+10 (“Establish an inner cordon, cordon off the oxy-acetylene cylinders and ensure fire does not spread near them.”).
• Good call — offensive internal at T+15 (“Continue internal attack with hose reel jets, between the 4 pumps there is plenty of water on scene to get this fire under control”).
• Good call — defensive external at T+20 (“Daisy chain pumps from a working hydrant further down the road to maintain water supply and begin external attack through the smashed window with a 45mm smoothbore”).
• A tasked search located a casualty (T+10).
• Fire extinguished — smoke clearing to reveal the fire damage. Good stop.
• Every judged decision (5) matched the conditions.
• Information confirmed at T+10: the witness (Ms Okafor, neighbour) said “Someone's still inside; I haven't seen them come out” — a search bore it out.
• Information confirmed at T+10: the occupier said “One person unaccounted for — last seen on the first floor” — a search bore it out.
• Property saved (damage 11).