What does Receo vs stand for?

The first acronym taught to working firefighters is RECEO-VS. This stands for Rescue, Exposures, Containment, Extinguish, Overhaul – Ventilation and Salvage. This gives firefighters their actions on the fireground in order of strategic importance.

Who developed Receo vs?

Lloyd Layman
In 1953, Lloyd Layman published Fire Fighting Tactics, a book that contained an acronym that would shape the next 60 years of fireground operations: RECEO-VS (R-Rescue, E-Exposure, C-Confinement, E-Extinguishment, O-Overhaul, and V-Ventilation, S-Salvage).

What is coal acronym wealth?

The Coal Was Wealth acronym includes: Construction, Occupancy, Apparatus and Manpower, Life hazard, Water supply, Auxiliary Appliances, Street Conditions, Weather, Exposures, Area, Location and extent of the fire, Time, and Height.

What does the E stand for in the acronym Slice RS?

C – Cool from a safe distance. E – Extinguish. R – Rescue. S – Salvage.

Who first developed the Receo tactical model?

The REVAS model was an upgrade from the RECEO model developed by Chief Lloyd Layman in the 1950s. RECEO was the foundation for Layman’s book Fire Fighting Tactics, published in 1953.

What is the minimum flow from a master stream device?

To be effective, these appliances require water flows from 350 to 2,000 gpm, depending on the size and type of the nozzle being used and the volume of water available.

What is the abbreviation for fire?

Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE)

What is slicers firefighting?

Before we answer the question, a little background: SLICE-RS is an acronym that outlines the latest firefighting tactics. It stands for Size-up, Locate the fire, Isolate the flow path, Cool from a safe distance, Extinguish, Rescue and Salvage at any time in the process.

What does the buddy system refer to?

The buddy system is a procedure in which two individuals, the “buddies”, operate together as a single unit so that they are able to monitor and help each other. As per Merriam-Webster, the first known use of the phrase “buddy system” goes as far back as 1942.

What are the 11 fireground priorities?

Each of these tactics can be delivered singularly or at the same time as others based on resource availability and priority of completion to mitigate fireground impacts.

• Need for rescue. Rescuing civilians is our main purpose.
• Protection of an exposure.
• Confinement of fire.
• Extinguishment.
• Overhaul.
• Ventilation.
• Salvage.

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What does receo vs stand for in firefighting?

All firefighters should know a RECEO VS (Rescue, Exposure, Confine, Extinguish, Overhaul and Ventilate, Salvage) acronym or derivative of the same to assist with making tactical decisions. Indianapolis firefighters work at the scene of a fatal house fire. (Photo: Tod Parker/Phototac.com)

Is receo vs an effective strategic component?

I have personally used RECEO VS as effective strategic components of the “what” I want to accomplish on numerous “all hazards” emergencies. Let’s take strategic objectives a little further. Strategy is thinking in the next, not in the now. The vision of too many incident commanders ends at the end of their nose.

Where to place receo vs in the incident action plan?

My solution/recommendation would be to place/locate RECEO VS under the strategic objective, which is the second component of the incident action plan. Strategy is not only investigation, offensive, defensive, indirect, transitional, etc.