 In 1991, the late Paul Gleason, a former hot shot superintendent, introduced LCES to the fire community. Lookouts, communications, escape routes, and safety zones are what Paul believed needed to be in place to protect the firefighters from both subjective and objective hazards in the fire environment. Paul stated that LCES is a refocusing on the essential elements of the fire orders. But have some of us actually used LCES to replace the standard orders? Have some of us traded in a 10-step process for a 4-step process? To reacquain us with the original intent of Paul's LCES system, let's take the time to read his original presentation of these principles. I know we're asking you to do a lot of reading in this module, but they say readers are leaders, and we believe that Paul's original intent of LCES deserves our attention.