10 Minute-Drill: Multi-Unit Dwelling Engulfed in Flames. You’re IC No. 1. What Do You Do?
10-Minute Training
Multi-Unit Dwelling Engulfed in Flames. You're IC No. 1.
What Do You Do?
By Ed Hartin
B Shifter Buckslip, Sept. 23, 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.
This month’s 10-Minute Training puts IC No. 1 on the scene of an apartment fire in Lakewood, N.J. The companion learning for this drill highlights multi-unit residential buildings, exterior-to-interior fire extension, building construction, and attic fires.
For more practice, visit www.commandcompetence.com to run a second 10-Minute Training based on the same incident—this time after transfer of command to IC No. 2.
Click the image below to access the download. For additional drills, visit www.commandcompetence.com.
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.