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Exercise · level 1 · seed 2026771390

The Willows — Rear Bedroom Fire

T+10min
Developing fireOffensive

Frames · Fire Scene Engine

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T+10 min

Well alight — flames from the opening and making up; black smoke, heavy, hot.

Timeline
T+10 / 10Resolution
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Doctrine-referenced debrief · not an assessment

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Incident Commander — Command Performance Review

SFJ Awards Level 3 Award in Initial Incident Command in Fire and Rescue ServicesOfqual Ref: 610/0183/1 · Unit 6033 · 65h TQT

Safety-critical event: Backdraft with BA crews committed at T+10. Unsatisfactory command performance with critical safety or coordination lapses that require structured developmental intervention.

Doctrine Score54/100
unsatisfactory
Situational Awarenesscompetent
70%
  • No explicit Level 3 anticipation recorded. Look ahead: verbalise predicted fire spread and future resource needs before escalation occurs.
  • Limited Level 2 understanding evident. Translate observations into operational meaning (e.g. what dark pulsing smoke signifies for entry safety).
  • Level 1 Perception active (2 situational observations recorded).
  • All identified critical hazards had corresponding mitigating actions recorded.
Decision Makingdeveloping
63%
  • Orders judged on their effect: 2 given — 1 sound, 1 wrong for the conditions, 0 not scored.
  • Decision controls and cues are not captured from typed orders and are not scored.
Interpersonal Communicationexemplary
90%
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Mrs Jones.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Fire Control.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Mrs Stephens.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Fire Control.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Fire Control.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Fire Control.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Fire Control.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Fire Control.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
Teamwork & Coordinationexemplary
90%
  • All operational sectors aligned with declared tactical mode.
Leadership & Command Presencecompetent
75%
  • Maintained clear command presence and tactical leadership.
Personal Resilienceexemplary
90%
  • Active monitoring intervals maintained without decision stagnation.
  • Maintained safe span of control (1 sectors).

Key Strengths

  • Handled all dynamic roleplay injects and operational messages effectively.
  • Maintained seamless sector coordination and accurate declared-versus-actual tactical alignment.

Development & Learning Opportunities

  • Safety-critical: Backdraft with BA crews committed at T+10 — this overrides the marker average.
  • Critical breach: Crews committed into hazard area without an established inner cordon.
  • Safety warning: No scene access control point (SACP) established to log personnel entering the inner cordon.
  • Operational briefing was unstructured — adopt the standard IIMARCH framework (Information, Intent, Method, Risk).

The incident got away — but there’s plenty to take forward.

Developmental reflection — not an assessment

What went well

  • Good call — monitor at T+0 (“Perform a 360 of the property”).
  • Every judged decision (1) matched the conditions.

What to develop

  • Questionable — offensive internal at T+5 (“Establish a water supply, commit a BA crew inside to begin an internal attack and begin an external attack from the rear of the property through the window.”) for the conditions at the time.
  • Safety-critical — Backdraft with BA crews committed (T+10).
  • Backdraft with BA crews committed — a safety-critical failure.
  • A casualty on the first floor was never found (unconscious).
  • Property partially saved (damage 11).

Key decision points

  • T+00 [monitor · good] “Perform a 360 of the property”
  • T+05 [offensive-internal · questionable] “Establish a water supply, commit a BA crew inside to begin an internal attack and begin an external attack from the rear of the property through the window.”

Learning points

  • Incident states: Arrival (T+0) → Developing fire (T+5).
  • Read the warning signs — sealed compartment, hot pulsing smoke, severe fire — before committing crews.
  • Send an early METHANE / informative message to set the incident picture.
  • With persons unaccounted for, search the fire floor first — “nobody inside” is a claim, not a fact.
  • Gather information early — speak to the witness, check the ORI, ask Fire Control and the BA crews — and act on what you learn.

Discuss this with the training mentor

Mentor grounded in published UK FRS principles — developmental discussion, not assessment. It cites its sources or reframes as a question.

Incident report

Practice — not a real IRS submission