This residential fire with exposures tactical decision game is based on an incident at 70-07 57th Road in Flushing, New York (December 28, 2025, 02:52). The scenario places chief officers in a rapidly evolving urban fire incident involving fire in the main occupancy with extension to an adjacent structure, requiring early pattern recognition, continuous size-up, and disciplined command transfer under time pressure. Challenges in this scenario included occupants that had jumped from the building, cold winter conditions, and limited access to the incident location.
Participants are required to make and communicate command decisions involving:
- Evaluation of the initial incident commander’s strategy selection and confirmation that the strategy remains appropriate during ongoing operations
- Management of exposure risk and search priorities
- Resource deployment and second-alarm integration
- Command transfer, CAN reporting, and radio communications discipline
This residential fire with exposures TDG uses actual incident video from Skyler Fire: https://bit.ly/4pQXU4x.
Designed for chief officers, this tactical decision game emphasizes sensemaking and recognition-primed decision making by confronting participants with realistic cues, competing priorities, and incomplete information. The exercise focuses on how experienced command officers diagnose conditions, anticipate incident trajectories, and adapt strategy and tactics as new information becomes available.
This residential fire with exposures TDG emphasizes early exposure protection, water supply planning, coordination of interior and exterior operations, and maintaining situational awareness as conditions evolve. Participants must balance life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation while managing limited information and time pressure.
The PDF includes an additional learning section with structured follow-on activities to extend the drill beyond the initial scenario, including guided discussion topics and recommended field-based observation and training activities related to residential occupancies with significant potential to extend to adjacent buildings.
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