Company Officer

• Level 1 supervising officer(all company officers)
• Level 2 Managing fire officer(district chiefs)
• Level 3 Administrative chiefs
• Level 4 Executive Chief

• Fire suppression
• Search and rescue
• EMS
• Fire prevention
• Public fire and life safety education
• Fire cause determination and arson investigation

• Interpersonal communication skills
• Knowledge of basic administrative functions
• Supervisory and leadership skills
• Ability to plan and organize

Provide services to external customers

Provide services to line units(internal customers) based on the objectives established to attain the organization's goals

• Provide leadership
• Act as role model
• Give advice
• Provide representation for members to administration
• Negotiate conflicts
• Applies counseling or coaching when neccesary
• Most Importantly is to ensure the safety of the unit's members at all times especially during emergency operations

• Leadership
• Ethics
• Supervision
• Responsibility
• Authority

• Commit to position
• Show loyalty to org
• Support education and training
• Guard conversations
• Accept criticism graciously
• Lead by example
• Praise in public;Discipline in private

• Subordinates
• Organization
• Public
• Profession
• Family
• Themselves

• provide supervision
• assign tasks
• evaluate personnel
• administer policies and procedures
• recommend actions when situations exceed authority
• Act as project manager
• Provide preofessional development opportunities
• assist with personnel transfers and personal benefits

• Develop budgets-based on info level 1
• Evaluate resource needs for units
• Purchase materials and equip for units
• Maintain purchase records

• Responsibile for initial fire cause and determination
• 1. Secure the scene
• 2. Preserve evidence
• 3. Interview witnesses
• 4. Notify investigator when necessary

• 1. Notify law enforcement
• 2. Designate scene a crime scene
• 3. Maintain security of scene until fire investigators arrive

• 1. Upon arrival develop IAP, ISP and establish ICS
• 2. Allocate resources to control incident
• 3. Perform Post incident analysis for incidents involving ONE unit
• 4. Resp. for inspection of all potential hazard sites in response area and preplans

• 1. Develop preplans for multi-unit operations
• 2. ASSIGN resources to effectively control incidents
• 3. Conduct post incident ANALYSIS using info from all units