EMERGENCY RESPONDER'S ORIENTATION METHOD AND DEVICE
First Claim
1. An emergency responder'"'"'s orientation device for use in an incident area that may be a building, the device comprising:
- a north-pointing compass having a center axis and a scale labeled to identify amounts of rotation around the axis; and
a bezel, rotatable about the axis, and labeled to identify radially outward directions toward named portions of the incident area;
whereinthe bezel labels and the scale labels are arranged such that at least one of the bezel labels can be seen to align with a scale label.
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Abstract
A method and device has been developed to enable emergency responders to maintain and communicate their orientation relative to a fire building or other emergency incident area as they work in and around it. The device is a specialized compass enhancement providing a standalone unit that each responder can carry. The device has a multipart structure including: (1) an underlying base is a simple compass that the responder orients to north. (2) A bezel rotatable around the simple compass is preferably square in shape and represents the building or incident area and is labeled with NIMS standardized ABCD designations. (3) An optional rotatable pointer can be independently positioned to indicate a direction to be remembered such as the direction in which the responder entered the incident area. All of the parts can be synchronized among users at any time by radioing simple verbal descriptions of the rotational setting(s).
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18 Claims
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1. An emergency responder'"'"'s orientation device for use in an incident area that may be a building, the device comprising:
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a north-pointing compass having a center axis and a scale labeled to identify amounts of rotation around the axis; and a bezel, rotatable about the axis, and labeled to identify radially outward directions toward named portions of the incident area;
whereinthe bezel labels and the scale labels are arranged such that at least one of the bezel labels can be seen to align with a scale label. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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