Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics Video Series #2 : Size-up

You are first to arrive on the fireground, what do you do?

Size-up! Are you prepared to make decisions that could mean the difference between life and death?

In the second of this new series, creator John Norman discusses: what size-up is, who performs it, and when it should be performed; traditional 13-point size-up, Coal Was Wealth; understanding occupancy and building construction; and, many other factors that affect size-up like weather, street conditions, time of day, and more.