PPE
Portable Fire Extinguishers
Forcible Entry
Building Construction
FF Grab Bag
100
The minimum overlap of a turnout coat over pants, no matter which position the FF holds during operations. (2", 3", or 4")
What is 2"?
100
The PASS application method for extinguishing fires.
What is Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep?
100
Term used to describe all types of door locks, latches, and locking devices.
What is a lockset?
100
Metal or wooden plates used to connect and strengthen the joints of two or more separate components into a load bearing unit.
What are Gusset Plates?
100
Proper ventilation is important in preventing this "transition from growth to fully developed fire" event from occuring.
What is flashover?
200
3 or more large interconnected air cylinders, from which smaller SCBA cylinders are charged.
What is a Cascade System?
200
The highest potential rating for a Class B fire extinguisher (1-B through ______).
What is 640-B?
200
The act of creating a hole in a wall or floor to gain access to a structure.
What is breaching?
200
A load-bearing wall shared by 2 adjacent structures.
What is a Party Wall?
200
With positive pressure ventilation, the discharge opening must be this size.
What is the same size as the entry opening?
300
The NFPA "Standard on the Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting".
What is NFPA 1971?
300
Type of extinguisher that includes sodium bicarbonate and potassium chloride.
What is a dry chemical extinguisher?
300
A hydraulic spreading tool that is specially designed to open doors that swing inward.
What is a rabbit tool?
300
Type V building construction.
What is wood or stick frame?
300
This hose roll has a built-in strap formed from the hose itself.
What is a self-locking twin donut roll?
400
The minimum percentage of oxygen in air needed to produce flames or sustain human life.
What is 16%?
400
A foam nozzle especially designed to provide the aeration required to make the highest quality foam possible.
What is an Air Aspirating Foam Nozzle?
400
A type of supplemental lock, mounted of the interior of a door surface, and includes a night latch and dead bolt.
What is a Rim Lock?
400
Walls with a surface layer of attractive material laid over a base of common material.
What is a Veneer Wall?
400
A smoke detector that uses a small amount of radioactive material to make the air within a sensing chamber conduct electricity.
What is an Ionization Smoke Detector?
500
The legal term for the maximum amount of a chemical substance or other hazard that an employee can be exposed to.
What Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)?
500
Along with smothering, cooling, and chain breaking - one of the 4 methods a fire extinguisher agent uses to extinguish a fire.
What is saponification?
500
Wedge shaped blade attached at right angles to the handle of tools.
What is an Adz?
500
Structural support made from a long steel bar that is bent at a 90 deg. angle, with flat or angular pieces welded to the top and bottom.
What is a Lightweight Steel Truss?
500
The 2 main aspects of Code Inforcement.
What are Inspections and Investigations?
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