IFSTA Fire Officer II (Fifth edition)

IFSTA Fire Officer II (Fifth edition) Company officer two's may interact with? - Their organization's upper levels and with their local and regional government agencies. Company officer two's supervise? - Other officers Company officer two's act as _______ change agents within their organization - Change Prerequisite knowledge for for Fire Officer two? - 1. The organization of thier local government 2. The enabling and regulatory legislation and the law-making process at the local, state and national level. The level two Fire Officer must perfom the following duties: - 1. Evaluate personnel and create an environment to maximize employee performance. 2. Prepare projects and division budgets. 3. Develop budgets. 4. Evaluate the resource needs of assigned units. Understand the purchaseing process. 5. Maintain records on purchases. 6. Conduct a preliminary investigation of a fire scene to include analyzing information and determining the point of orgin and cause of the fire. 7. Develop preincident plans for multiunit operations. 8. Assign resources to effectiviely control incidents. 9. Conduct postincident analysis using inforamtion gathered from all responding units. 10. Assist with the development of organizational policies and procedures. 11. Provide the media with emergency incident or department activity information. 12. Apply planning concepts and project needed resources. The fire officer two responsabilites regarding safety and health include: - analyzing unit accidents and injury reports and directing actions and or recommending steps to prevent thier reoccurance. The company officer two must interact personally with superiors, peers and subordinates to accomplish? - Organizational goals and tasks. The company officer two may be required to develop? - Written reports, press releases, memos, policies and procedures. Local governments affects emergency services organizations in two primary ways. - 1. allocating funds, proving purchases, staffing requests, ordinances related to fire protection. 2. Local government oversee other department and agencies with which their emergency services organizations must interact. Who may enact local legislation? - City council, commisioners, or board with authority over the jurisdiction What are the three functional branches of government? - Legislative, executive and Judicial. What four states are considered commonwealth - Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia and Puerto Rico What is a commonwealth state? - A state in which the government functions with the common consent of the people What territiories does the US currently administer. - Guam, Midway, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories? - Ten Provinces and three territories. Canada has three branches of the government. - Unicameral legislative assembly, executive branch and judicial branch The following agencies may influence fire and emergency services. - Fire marshal, fire training programs, commisioners, EMS services, forestry, homeland security, OSHA and fish and game. Other agencies that we may interact with. - FEMA, USFA, NFA, EMI, coast guard, USDA, USFS, HUD, DOI, DOL, OSHA, CDC,