Firefighter Cohesion and Entrapment Avoidance Facilitator's Notes
Overview of the Program
The program has three parts:
- Part I: Cohesion Among Firefighters—Leaders of firefighters describe what cohesion
means to them in their everyday work.
- Part II: Links to Entrapment Avoidance—Leaders discuss the links between cohesion and
entrapment avoidance.
- Part III: Eight Common Cohesion Problems
on Fires—Eight common reoccurring cohesion
problems are covered:
- Firefighters Not Getting Along
- Working With Unfamiliar Resources
- The Fire Gets Hot and Firefighters Get Nervous
- Can't Trust Other Firefighters
- Resources Out of the Loop
- Questioning Tactics
- Lacking Local Knowledge
- Home Unit Loyalties and Cliques
The eight cohesion problems discussed in Part III are not all the possible firefighter cohesion problems. These are the problems the leaders who were interviewed talked about most often. In each of these sections, you'll hear stories from leaders about the work practices they used to take care of the cohesion problems they faced.
