Types of Things
This type of heat transfer is the transmission of energy through electromagnetic waves without an intervening medium, rendering water curtains ineffective.
What is Radiation?
This term describes the concept that everyone reports to only 1 supervisor
What is Unity of Command?
This is the NFPA standard for Firefighter Professional Qualifications.
What is 1001?
These models are used to explain the elements of fire, and how fires can be extinguished.
What is the Fire Triangle and/or Fire Tetrahedron?
This event, the deadliest firefighter disaster in known history (largest loss of firefighters), forced fire departments around the world re-evaluate their interoperability at local and federal levels.
What is the 2001 World Trade Center Attack?
This type of building has masonry and non-combustible exterior walls and structural members, but the floors and roofs are made of combustible materials.
What is a Type III building?
This term is used to describe where undeveloped wildland areas meet human developed areas.
What is Wildland/Urban Interface? (WUI)
This is the NFPA Standard for Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications
What is NFPA 1002?
This type of ignition is commonly found in haybales or oily rags that are improperly stored, after a slow self-heating oxidation takes place.
What is spontaneous ignition?
This event changed the way Alberta OHS viewed presumptive cancers, and created the first full exemption from 'minimum time served', to be granted full coverage in the case of any cancer on the presumptive cancer list in Alberta.
What was the 2016 Fort McMurray Fire?
This type of rope is a jacketed synthetic rope composed of a braided covering or sheath (mantle) over a core (kern) of the main load-bearing strands.
What is Kernmatle rope?
This term is used to describe the section of an extension ladder that extends.
What is the Fly Section?
This NFPA Standard specifies the minimum requirements for a fire department safety and health program.
What is NFPA 1500?
This stage of the fire is when all of the available fuel or oxygen has been consumed, and the heat release rate begins to decline.
What is Decay?
This ingredient was banned from water-proofing chemicals after a fire in a circus tent caused the deaths of 168 people, most of whom were children. Ringling Bothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Fire, Connecticut, 1944.
What is Gasoline?
This type of indicator makes an audible noise, tactile vibration, visual lights, or any combination thereof, to alert the user that their respiratory protection equipment is about to reach its limit, and it is time to exit the atmosphere
What is End-of-Service-Time Indicator (Low air alarms)?
This term is used to describe the mass (weight) of a substance compared to the weight of an equal volume of water at a given temperature.
What is Specific Gravity?
What is NFPA 1971?
This rapid transition from growth to fully developed occurs when combustible materials and fuel gasses in a compartment ignite almost simultaneously.
What is Flashover?
This specific part of an exit door became required after a "fireproof" theater clamed the lives of 602 occupants, and injured 250 more, in the Iroquois Theater Fire, Chicago, 1903.
What is Panic Hardware?
This type of fire departmental organization is most common, defined as having an uninterrupted series of steps for decisions and information to be directed through.
What is a Scalar Organization?
This term is used to describe the section of the rope that is used to pull on for hoisting or belaying.
What is the Running Part (Running End)?
What is NFPA 1932?
This measure of energy to a specific unit area (kW/m2) is used by scientists to explain how heat transfer is affected by both heat release rate and building layout, and can significantly impact the effective time frame for firefighters to work in high temperature conditions.
What is heat flux?
This founding father of USA led the first organized volunteer fire company, in Philadelphia in 1735.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?