Emergency communication—including maydays and emergency traffic communications—is a particularly critical component of interagency operations. When protocols and expectations vary among responding resources, it increases the potential for incident-within-the-incident emergencies to develop and creates obstacles to responding to these emergencies.

In this training, learners will review policy and procedure variations across Los Angeles region fire departments in how emergency communications are managed. Radio operations will be reemphasized through the lesson and a hands-on drill. Regularly refreshing knowledge and skills is an important way to improve firefighters’ ability to respond and remain safe.