10 Minute-Drill: Southern California Fire in Converted Historic Home
10-Minute Training
You arrive first on scene at a fire in a historic Southern California home converted into three apartments. What's your plan?
By Ed Hartin
B Shifter Buckslip, Oct. 14, 2025
Every month, the B Shifter Buckslip features a 10-Minute Training scenario designed to provide a bit of synthetic experience while enhancing your ability to recognize patterns, identify relevant cues, expectancies and anomalies, set plausible goals, and develop a workable incident action plan.
In this month’s drill, you’ll serve as IC No. 1 at a residential fire in The City of Orange, Calif. This scenario focuses on hazard-zone divisions and the “on a hydrant” water supply tactic, challenging you to sharpen decision-making and incident action planning skills.
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Ed Hartin retired as fire chief with East County Fire and Rescue in Camas, Wash., after a 50-year fire service career. Ed maintains an active international training and consulting practice and is a Blue Card instructor. He holds the Chief Fire Officer designation from the Commission on Professional Credentialing and is a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers. Ed has undergraduate degrees in fire protection technology and fire service administration and a master’s degree in education. Since 2017, Ed has developed more than 450 10-Minute Trainings to provide ICs with deliberate practice to build competence.