Command post accountability, a manageable span of control, and maintaining communication discipline are some items for mutual aid success. Fire departments that run mutual aid will also benefit from other mutual activities such as the creation and adoption of policies/procedures and mutual training.
In this presentation from Anthony Avillo, the focus is on the issues firefighters must be aware of to operate more safely in the buildings we are entering.
As a first action, get to the door and close it. Anthony Avillo has a few tips for conducting a quick and efficient (and safe) vent-enter-search operation.
Like a turkey after a Thanksgiving feast, all that is left after a building is destroyed by fire is the skeleton; do not allow personnel near or in this "structural carcass." ANTHONY AVILLO
Anthony Avillo-Although the recent studies on coordinating fire attack in the modern fire environment may not necessarily yield new information, the science behind them reinforces what we already know: that to ensure safe firefighting operations, you must coordinate suppression with ventilation.