An incident has occurred and the emergency services have arrived and are
engaged in an emergency response operation. The incident commander has set
the goal of the operation and is leading the work at the incident site.
The fire chief has ultimate responsibility for the operation and for how
work is carried out at the site.
Through setting the aim of the response the fire chief can
influence the work at the site without taking over the role of incident
commander. By carrying out a command visit, the fire chief can gain
valuable first hand information and thus better evaluate the goal of the
operation in terms of the aim of the operation.
The fire chief should not get involved in either the problems of the
individual incident site or in too much detail. After a completed command
visit the fire chief should, therefore, be able to leave the incident site, even if
a long term operation may call for several visits.
Example 10