Oklahoma Firefighter (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1988 Page: 1 of 24
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WHAT’S INSIDE
Executive Director's Report .................
News Around The State......................
Fire Truck For Sale..........................
Volunteer Firefighter News ..................
Past President's Message.....................
Texas Firefighter Olympics...................
2nd V.P. Report.............................
Kid Safe Program...........................
IRS Tax Tips...............................
OSFA Convention.........................
Director’s Report...........................
New Member Cities.........................
Air Cylinders-DOL..........................
Pension Facts..............................
Medicare Supplement.......................
President's Message.........................
3rd V.P. Report.............................
New Fire Engine At Museum.................
Nozzle Collection...........................
OCFD Commended.........................
Capitol Beat................................
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department. To prepare
Unless all the players (or firefighters,
as the case may be) understand and
practice the game plan. confusion
could be the name of the game for
you and your fire department.
SARA, Title III, lets us all know
some type of incident command
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eventuality the Educational Ad-
visory Committee from O.S.F.A. has
arranged a state fire school, "From
ABC to ICS". (Applying Basic Con-
cepts to prepare for an Incident
Command System). No commander
willingly goes into battle without
assessing the enemy, preplanning
the attack, and apprising his forces
where they are to be deployed and
what results to expect. When you are
on the fireground, fire is the enemy
and you better have your homework
done before you arrive if you expect
to win. Keep in mind the ICS is an
emergency system; preplanning is
essential but even before the
energency, basic fireground strategy
and tactics must be learned and
practiced.
The purpose of this fire school is to
assist you with knowledge to arm
yourselves; concepts, strategies and
tactics you can use in any depart-
ment. alone or in conjunction with
others; weapons that work for your
department yet lend themselves to
use within a larger system. Once you
have basics behind you, you can see
how easily your department's SOPs
can plug right into the larger ICS.
and how much more effective the
ICS becomes when each one under-
stands the overall plan and where
they fit into the total picture. Fire-
ground tactics and strategies work
for any department.
Presenting this outstanding pro-
gram is the dynamic Assistant Chief
from the Louisville (KY) Fire Depart-
ment. John Corso. His firefighting
career began in 1967 with time out
for military service from 1970-72,
then back, to work his way up the
ladder through apparatus operator,
company commander, district chief,
to assistant chief of department. Us-
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earned at the University of
Louisville, he has been instrumental
in designing, developing and im-
plementing training programs
within the department, worked with
Operation Firesafe, the Great
Louisvillle Fire Drill, and the Civil
Service Board on its examination
processes. He also served as instruc-
tor at the State Fire School in Lex-
ington, Kentucky. Outside ex-
periences include Fire Science in-
structor at Jefferson Community Col-
lege, substitute teacher in business,
accounting, and science, business
manager, engineering systems
designer, inspecter (rating various
businesses for Insurance Under-
writers), real estate appraiser and
licensed real estate broker. Wow!
Sounds like a firefighter to me!
Seems the busier you guys are, the
better you like it and the more you
accomplish. He should have no trou-
ble relating to Oklahoma firefighters.
Louisville has the reputation of being
a progressive department; with men
like Corso on their roster, you can
see why.
John Corso is an exciting person
and he plans to whet your appetite.
His experience and qualifications
combine to present a formidable op-
ponent. one capable of overcoming
our common enemy, FIRE. To learn
what an incident command system
is, why your fire department needs
to know how it works, and where
your department's standard
operating procedures can be improv-
ed, sign up today. Fireground con-
cepts. strategies and tactics work the
same on a small or large scale, and I
have yet to meet the firefighter who
knows everything he needs to know
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How many of you remember Ab-
bott and Costello's routine, "Who's
on First?". where they attempt to
straighten each other out as to where
baseball players are on the field and
succeed in creating mass confusion.
When your department responds to a
? nutual aid call, does the ensuing ac-
d ivity resemble a "Chinese fire drill"?
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