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Exercise · level 1 · seed 712846409

The Willows — Multiple viewpoint effects testing

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 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.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Fire Control.
  • Response provided, but did not explicitly repeat back critical operational specifics.
  • Rapid, prompt acknowledgement to Adjacent Shopkeeper.
  • 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.
  • 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 (“Establish a cordon, perform a 360, establish a water supply strategy”).
  • A tasked search located a casualty (T+10).
  • Every judged decision (1) matched the conditions.
  • Information confirmed at T+10: the witness (Mrs Patel, 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.

What to develop

  • Questionable — offensive internal at T+5 (“Source of fire is rear first floor bedroom window, commit 2x BA crews inside to attack source of fire with a 45mm hose and smoothbore branch and search for casualties. Rear of property to be attacked externally with hose ran through the gate to the side of the property”) for the conditions at the time.
  • Safety-critical — Backdraft with BA crews committed (T+10).
  • Backdraft with BA crews committed — a safety-critical failure.
  • Property partially saved (damage 11).

Key decision points

  • T+00 [monitor · good] “Establish a cordon, perform a 360, establish a water supply strategy”
  • T+05 [offensive-internal · questionable] “Source of fire is rear first floor bedroom window, commit 2x BA crews inside to attack source of fire with a 45mm hose and smoothbore branch and search for casualties. Rear of property to be attacked externally with hose ran through the gate to the side of the property”

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.
  • 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