From 1996 to 2008 the Bellevue Fire Department had seen a significant increase in the number of high-rise buildings in its response area and had also witnessed a substantial increase in the number of firefighters within its ranks. Bellevue Fire Department personnel were experiencing difficulty in the rapid assessment of high-rise building systems features upon arrival and in the early phases of incident assessment. This Applied Research Project created a job aid for use in the early phases of high-rise incident assessment by firefighters and command officers.Action research, combined with a literature review, personal interviews, a questionnaire and field-test of a job aid were used to answer the following questions: what high-rise building information is immediately the most useful to first-responding firefighters once at the scene? What type of high-rise building systems identification methods are employed by other selected fire departments? What are the duties of first-responding units to high-rise buildings in other selected fire departments? What high-rise building systems identification process can be employed in the City of Bellevue? The recommendations from this research project include: incorporating high-rise walk-throughs as part of the Monthly Drill Check Sheet issued by the Training Division, insure that all building systems are labeled per IFC and IBC guidelines, creating elevator job aids for all high-rise elevators in the City of Bellevue,creating a job aid for other building systems such as alarm panel or fire pumps.