Fire Equipment
Pick-head or not, this tool is used during forcible entry, extrication, or impromptu roof remodeling.
What is an axe?
This is always the number one priority on every fire scene or ground.
What is life safety?
This piece of equipment is able to analyze lethal heart rhythms and provide defibrillation or a shock, but provide no ability for review or monitoring of the rhythm obtained.
What is an AED?
Sometimes referred to as "Ambulance Be Coming", the "A-B-C" acronym actually stands for this.
What is "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"?
In this year, Chief Carter Jones founder Clarendon County Fire Department.
What is 1977?
A combination of tools, referred to as this matrimonious term.
What is a married set?
A common mantra, or motivational phrase, usually to be said before entering a structure fire.
Expect ____,
Expect _______
Expect Fire,
Expect Victims
This device is used to provide artificial breaths to patients who are not breathing adequately, or at all.
What is a BVM?
This common mantra is meant to remind providers with hypothermic patients in cardiac arrest, that reversible causes should be addressed. "They are not dead, until they are ____ and dead"
What is warm?
This was the date of the official combination of Clarendon County Fire Department and Clarendon EMS into the now know Clarendon County Fire Rescue. (m/d/y)
What is July 1, 2020?
These are the four words that make up the acronym "PASS", as in the device attached to a firefighters airpack.
What Personal Alert Safety System?
Coordinator of a specific scene, or sometimes referred to as the HBIC.
What is Incident Command?
This device provides (sometimes) accurate readings of a patient's pulse rate and oxygen saturation.
What is a pulse oximeter?
This medical emergency is often mistaken for a stroke.
What is hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)?
Clarendon County was the first fire based EMS service in South Carolina to offer this type of community based service.
What is the community paramedic program? (GO MARC!!! {Specifically with a C, not a K})
This class of extinguisher is used in mainly kitchen fires, involving fats, grease, and oils.
What is a class K extinguisher?
This transmission must be relayed quickly after a firefighter or other personnel are involved in a emergency or dangerous situation.
What is a Mayday?
This, often frontline, oxygen administration device, has a recommended flow rate of 1-6 LPM.
What is a nasal cannula?
A patient secured to a back board, and placed in a C-Collar, is noted to be in ______ ______ Restriction.
What is Spinal Motion Restriction?
This was the name of Clarendon EMS's sister company, that handled non emergent, interfacility or hospital to home transfers.
What is Cypress Transport?
This is known as the "sexless" coupling, allowing for speedy connections.
What is a Storz connection (or coupling)?
What are the three sides of the fire tetrahedron, or list the ingredients of fire.
What is heat, fuel, and, oxygen?
Despite this additions falsely leading name, the 12 Lead, has how many precordial leads in addition to the four limb leads?
what is 6?
This is the main form of shock noted usually in trauma patients.
What is hemorrhagic shock?
These where the department heads of Clarendon County Fire Department and Clarendon EMS at the time of "The Merge"
Who is Michael Johnson and Brad Gerfin?