Reporting an Incident

To report an incident in progress, please follow these steps...

1.) Call the FPO Hotline Number at 1-888-342-0143 or (614) 646-7999 in Columbus or click here to use the Online Dispatching Form.

2.) Leave as much info as you know on the answering machine. Ideally, the perfect call to use should have the following information...

Your Name
FPO Number (If you have one) or other affiliation name
Your Phone Number in case we need to call you back to clarify something
City and State of the Incident
Address
Box Number (if applicable)
Type of Incident
Companies Responding on the Assignment
Incident Size Up (IE. Eng 2 has flames from roof of 2 story Multi Family Dwelling. or HazMat 1 O/S with overturned tractor trailer)
Any other information you feel should be sent with the page (IE Reports of people trapped, Apparatus involved in the MVA, etc.)

3.) Do not call with unconfirmed fires. Please wait until a unit has arrived on scene and confirmed a working fire before calling the hotline.

4.) What should be paged out? FPO only pages out the following calls, all others submitted with be subject to approval by the dispatcher handling your incident as to whether it should be paged out.

Working Fires:
* This is defined as a first alarm assignment working at a structure fire with the Incident Commander announcing a working fire.

Multiple Alarms:
* When a Working Fire goes past the standard working fire.
* The Incident Commander will ask for 2nd or 3rd alarm.

HAZ-MAT:
*
Serious incidents involving hazardous materials.
* Genuine incidents are usually indicated by evacuations, prolonged operation, etc.

Major MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident):
*
Extra medics, rescues, MedFlight, or confirmed pin job.

Alert 2 or 3 at local Airports:
*
Alert 2: When aircraft is in danger of not making a safe landing at the airport.
* Alert 3: When aircraft has crashed


 
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