Tactics, command, leadership

• What happens to the execution of the response operation or
  task in terms of time and space if the operation is changed or
  if organisational or technical changes are made? A complete
  unit could, for example, be eliminated during an ongoing ope-
  ration: a pumping appliance could drive off the road during
  the turn­out, or a large quantity of hose could be destroyed in
  connection with a forest fire.


• Which circumstances steer the use of time, or, more precisely,
  the use of time and space? Examples of such circumstances
  are the time constants discussed above, which place certain
  limitations on the use of time and space.


• What are the effects of the various phenomena that exist
  side by side in time and space? What are the consequences
  of the co­existence in the time and space? A fire, for
  example, affecting an LPG tank can be taken as a case
  consisting of two phenomena existing simultaneously (and
  which also affect one another). The fire is one phenomenon
  and the transfer of energy to the LPG in the tank another;
  which problem is the biggest and consequently the one which
  should be tackled first? Another example could be two sepa-
  rate, simultaneous fires in a large forest area in the time and
  space which will have both independent and combined conse-
  quences. What restrictions will this result in, for the separate
  responses and for the system as a whole?

The command system created for the municipal structure for pro-

viding rescue services must naturally be conscious of time prior

to and when one or more response operations are being executed.

Control restrictions.
Because of the risk of
contamination,
emergency services
personnel may have
limited access to a
nuclear installation.