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Lead a crew and control a Level 1 structure fire

You are the Crew Leader and first arriving officer at a dwelling fire.

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The situation

What has happened

Your crew leader assessment is a simulated fire in a single storey dwelling at the Ballan training campus with a report from a neighbour that an elderly occupant may still be inside. You are the officer on the first arriving pumper with a crew of four, two of them breathing apparatus wearers, and a second pumper is four minutes behind you. You are the incident controller until relieved. The communications centre expects a situation report on arrival and at each change. The organisation's policies require a dynamic risk assessment before committing crews, an entry control point for breathing apparatus, a safety officer decision, a crew briefing in the standard format and a hot debrief. A breathing apparatus low pressure warning may sound early during the exercise.

Your brief. Size up the incident, make and communicate a dynamic risk assessment, brief and commit your crew safely with entry control and a rapid intervention plan, manage the arrival of the second pumper, give clear situation reports, respond to an emergency inside, achieve control and run a hot debrief that captures lessons.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • A command card for a Level 1 dwelling fire
  • A recorded dynamic risk assessment and crew briefing
  • The Incident and Dispatch Log entry with decisions, times and appointments
  • Hot debrief notes with actions and any health and safety register entry

Documents to use

Systems to use

Incident and Dispatch Log

The official record of every incident and request for assistance, with type, location, resources, incident level, control times, safety officer and debrief status.

Appliance and Equipment Register

Records every appliance, breathing apparatus set, rescue kit, ladder, chainsaw and detector with its checks, tests, services, defects and in service status.

Health and Safety Incident Register

The controlled record of injuries, exposures, near misses, hazards, vehicle incidents and equipment failures across stations, units, incidents and workplaces, with investigation and actions to closure.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Public Safety as at 10 September 2026.

PUAOPE012Control a Level 1 incident
PUAOPE020Lead a crew
PUAOPE015Conduct briefings and debriefings
PUAWHS002Maintain safety at an incident scene
PUATEA003Lead, manage and develop teams

Qualifications

PUA40319Certificate IV in Public Safety (Firefighting Supervision)
PUA41019Certificate IV in Public Safety (Leadership)
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Observe the size up and the quality of the arrival situation report, whether the risk assessment genuinely weighs the rescue benefit against the risk to crews, the completeness of the briefing format, correct entry control and rapid intervention arrangements, the response to the emergency inside including accounting for every member, accurate log entries, and a debrief that is honest and produces actions.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.