[Scan-DC] Scan-DC Digest, Vol 64, Issue 6

[Jeff Krauss]

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>Message: 5
>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:35 -0400
>From: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] 3-Alarm Working Fire in Montgomery
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>Thx - so how do they count alarms now?  I wondered about that as I 
>entered it... I guess a "task force" is not a full "alarm" (in terms 
>of assignments?)
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>PS - at any rate, it's a "big fire"!  :)

It sounded like a big house fire....but the second task force was 
requested after the fire was pretty much under control, mainly as 
relief crews for the firefighters doing the overhaul on a hot 
day.  If they were needed to fight the fire, the incident commander 
would have said something like "Fill out the second alarm" much 
earlier in the process.