For an organisation through flexibility to meet an assistance need
under ever changing conditions, it must have an active system
command, partly because some form of preparedness is continual-
ly being produced and partly because it is an activity in itself to ini-
tiate a response operation. Here we can take up emergency prepared-
ness production; this refers to activities that include, among others,
establishing a certain degree of preparedness in the form of per-
sonnel or other resources so that in the event of emergencies, one
is able to proceed to the incident site and provide some form ofThe municipal structure for
providing rescue services has
received an alarm from an
industrial company, where a
stacked storage warehouse is on
fire. According to information
received, the sprinkler system
is operating, limiting the fire
and to a large extent preventing
its spread. Nevertheless it is
necessary to enter the building for
extinguishing work.
Because of the character of the
building (large) and its contents
(complicated stores configuration),
the decision is made to send in two
BA firefighters, one from the back
and one from the front. In addition
because of the long distance to the
actual fire once inside the building,
it is decided that each BA unit shall
have a protective group and an
ensured, separate water supply.
Despite, then, the quite basic
technical aspects of the situation, a
rather complicated organisational
solution is called for.
Example 29