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Arriving as 2nd due chief and announcing “arrival order” on this working fire. 🔊🔥 As our companies and chiefs arrive on the scene, they announce their arrival order - “2nd engine”, “1st truck, alpha side”, or in this case, “2nd chief”. 👉🏼 This does not just mean they were the 2nd chief to arrive but also that they are taking the pre-determined assignment of the 2nd arriving chief - which essentially tells others where they are going and what they are doing. In this case, the duties of the 2n