Wildland Fires
Just Random Questions
Pump
Fires
Hydrants
200
The three environmental elements that influence wildland fire behavior.
What are fuel, weather, and topography?
200
A scallop in one lug of the couplings to mark the beginning of the threads.
What is a Higbee Indicator.
200
This is the most critical factor affecting the reach and effectiveness of a fire stream.
What is nozzle pressure
200
A rapid chemical reaction that gives off energy and products of combustion that are very different in composition than the fuel and oxygen that produce them.
What is Fire
200
A fire hydrant that receives water from only one direction is known as:
What is Dead-end (head) fire hydrant
400
The fire suppression tactic where you stop the fire's spread with the least amount of perimeter spread, working directly on the fire's edge.
What is a direct attack?
400
When doing decontamination of personnel and equipment, which zone would this task be completed in.
What is warm zone.
400
This abbreviation stands for the total amount of pressure being pushed out of the fire pump.
What is Pump Discharge Pressure (PDP)
400
Where should the ladder be placed as a vantage point from which a firefighter can break a window for ventilation
What is placed up wind next to the window with the tip about even with the top of the window sill.
400
Which is the preferred types of hose for connecting to a hydrant.
What is Large diameter intake hose
600
What are the 5 foundational safety considerations
What are Lookout, Anchor point, Communication, Escape Route, and Safety Zone.
600
When approaching a HAZMAT incident, your vehicle should approach from ______ and _______.
What is upwind and uphill.
600
___________ refers to that part of the total pressure lost while forcing water through pipe, fittings, fire hose, and adapters?
What is Friction loss.
600
What are the components of the fire tetrahedron?
What is Oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical reaction.
600
A water distribution system that provides circulating feed from several mains constitutes a:
What is a grid system.
800
What is a Pincer Action attack
800
The appliance that has two or three female connections coming into one male discharge exiting the connection.
What is a Siamese?
800
A fire pump with one or more impellers that rotate and utilize centrifugal force to move the water, most modern pumps are this type.
What is Centrifugal Pump
800
Used to achieve maximum water surface for heat absorption and is composed of very fine water droplets.
What is a fog stream?
800
All hydrant nozzle threads are the same across Canada. True or false
what is false
1000
This type of firing is a pre-planned fire set along a firebreak to remove fuel, often used to create a firebreak before a fire season.
What is a Burnout
1000
Used to drain runoff from the ceiling above out through windows or doors.
What is a water chute?
1000
The combination of friction loss, elevation, pressure loss and associated with appliances is referred to as:
What is Total pressure loss.
1000
An Offensive fire attack initiated by an exterior indirect handline operation, into the fire compartment, to initiate cooling.
What is a Transitional Fire Attack
1000
What is Operating Nut, barrel, valve stem and drain.