Tactics, command, leadership

Sprinklers and sensors

Fire resistant building divisions

Retaining barriers

Escape routes

Carrying capacity of

beams and walls for a

certain time

a public announcement (VMA) or handling the administration of

the response operation by documenting the decisions taken and

compiling reports and follow­up. A measure that is appropriate in

one situation is naturally not always appropriate in another, even

though the situations may be very similar.

Different measures are also dependent on one another. In the

fire fighting example above it is quite apparent that the provision

of water is a condition necessary for the fire fighting, at the same

time as the extinguishing measure is a condition necessary for the

water supply measure to have any relevance at all at the incident

site (extinguishing or protection). An important public announ-

cement can have a decisive effect on the reaction of the public,

which in turn can, among other things, affect the measures deci-

ded upon to provide the assist ance need or even the approach to

a particular risk situation. Another example of the dependency

of measures on one another is clearly demonstrated in traffic ac-

cidents, where various measures to release people from vehicles

must be applied in a certain order.

The links between the various measures are, however, not al-

ways obvious. The connection can be direct, as in the example of

water supply and fire fighting, but this is not always the case. An

example of the latter would be when a fire brigade crew applies

foam at the scene of a traffic accident, even though there is no

fire. The foam is used to prevent fire and to avoid rapid spreading

of a fire should one break out. In the same way it is perhaps neces-

Object and damage
and their different
conditions.