Fire Behavior
What are fuel, oxygen, heat, and chemical reaction.
The set of tools that make up a standard "set of irons"
The standard clibming angle or ratio for a ground ladder against a building.
What is a 75-degree angle (3-1 ratio)
What is carbon monoxide?
The NFPA standard that governs fire department occupational safety, health, and wellness.
What is NFPA 1500?
The rapid transition from a growing fire to a fully developed room-on-fire stage.
What is Flashover
Heavy-duty, step-like blocks made of wood or plastic used to stabilize a vehicle during extrication.
What is step cribbing?
The alarm system a firefighter must activate immediately if they become lost, trapped, or disoriented.
What is a PASS system? (Personal Alert Safety System)
The post-fire condition characterized by dizziness, headache, and racing heart?
What is dehydration? HYDRATE OR DIE-DRATE!
What is under 2 minutes (120 seconds)?
A sudden influx of air into an oxygen-depeleted, heat filled space causing the violent ignition of gases
What is a backdraft
They type of couplings on large diameter hose that are "sexless" andn connect with a 1/3 turn.
What are Storz couplings?
Laying a supply hose directly from the water source to the fire scene.
What is a forward lay?
Standarad immediate first-aid treatment steps for a closed joint sprain or muscle strain.
What is splinting, icing, elevation, and rest? (RICE)
The specific cross design used worldwide as the international symbol of the fire service's willingness to make sacrifices.
What is the Maltese Cross?
The chemical decomposition of a solid material by heating.
What is pyrolysis?
Type of bottle required to use the airbags in E93
What is a Scott SCBA bottle?
The ICS term used to describe a written or unwritten plan for managing an emergency incident.
What is an Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
What is hypoglycemia?
The patron sait of firefighters, traditionally recognized for saving a village from a catastrophic blaze with a single bucket of water.
Who is Saint Florian?
Heat transfer that occurs through direct contact between solid objects.
What is conduction?
The pressure at which an MSA bottle is considered fully charged.
What is 4500 PSI?
The toxic gas in smoke - often released by burning plastics and furnished sythetic materials - that smells faintly of bitter almonds.
What is hydrogen cyanide?
The chemical reaction that describes the combining of oxygen with other materials.
What is oxidation?