Fire apparatus spend countless hours each year traveling among incidents, transporting critical water, equipment and, most importantly, firefighters.
Any roadway, especially when stopped on the side of the road, is a hot zone.
Following are actions for every engineer to observe to avoid and survive a collision.
- Minimize your exposure time to all other vehicle traffic.
- Put as much distance as possible between you and those vehicles.
- Use other vehicles – ambulances and police cruisers – to shield the incident scene from intrusion by other vehicles.
- Move towards a warm zone with purpose and urgency.