CHALET was a mnemonic or prompt indicating a protocol used by United Kingdom (UK) emergency services to report situations that they may be faced with, especially as it relates to major incidents.
[1][2] Since 2013, the United Kingdom emergency services have been using a new doctrine[3] developed by the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP),[4] which sets out the mnemonic ETHANE as an aid to communicating information from the incident scene.
CHALET and ETHANE dictate the form in which the receiving control station should get information from the first person or officer on the scene.
CHALET stands for; ETHANE stands for: In the event of this being used for a major incident, the reporting first on-scene officer would not usually get involved with the rescue work but act as a coordinator on the scene for arriving emergency vehicles.
This is in line with the widely used Gold Silver Bronze command structure.