A rapid and self sustaining chemical process that yeilds heat and usually light. Fire is a form of this.
What is combustion?
100
The NFPA safety standard.
What is NFPA 1500?
100
Rope made of these materials is no longer accepted for use in life safety applications.
What are natural fibers?
100
The preferred hose lay when an engine must be parked near the fire scene.
What is a forward lay?
100
A shared command role that allows all agencies with a responsibility for the incident, either geographical or functional to manage the incident by establishing a common set of objectives.
What is unified command?
200
The transfer of heat within a body to another body by direct contact.
What is conduction?
200
Noise levels above this many db's reqires the use of hearing protection.
What is 90 db?
200
This rope is dedicated to the sole purpose of raising, lowering, and supporting people during firefighting or rescue operations.
What is life safety rope?
200
The two firefighter method for uncoupling hose. Keep your arms straight use the weight of your body to turn each coupling counterclockwise.
What is the stiff-arm method?
200
Strategy or actions to actively control a fire or a hazmat incident.
What is an offensive strategy?
300
The minimum temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapors to form an ignitable mixture with the air near the liquids surface.
What is flash point?
300
A low air alarm will sound when the SCBA fall below this percentage of its capacity.
What is 25%?
300
A jacketed rope made of a braided covering or sheath over a core of the main load bearing strands.
What is kernmantle rope?
300
The easiest and safest way to advance a hoseline up a ladder.
What is uncharged?
300
To remove a contaminant from a victim as rapidly as possible without regard for the environment or property.
What is emergency decontamination?
400
The chemical decomposition of a substance through the action of heat. It causes the substance to off gas as it decays. It's this gas that actually burns.
What is pyrolosis?
400
A remote pressure gueage on your SCBA should read within this many PSI if the guage is marked in PSI.
What is 100 PSI?
400
Knot used in conjunction with other knots to eliminate the danger of the running end of the rope slipping back through the knot, causing the knot to fail.
What is an overhand safety knot?
400
This handline load is intended to be deployed out without dragging any hose on the ground. The hose is flake off the top of the shoulder as the firefighter advances toward the fire.
What is the minuteman load?
400
This CPC requires the use of SCBA. It provides liquid splash protection, little to no chemical vapor or gas protection.
What is a Level B ensemble?
500
The minimum concentration of fuel vapor and air that will support combustion. Concentrations below this are said to be to lean.
What is the lower flammable limit?
500
Steel and aluminum air cylinders must be hydrostatically tested every 5 years. Composite cylinders require testing this often.
What is 3 years?
500
The end of a rope that is attached to the object being lifted.
What is the working end?
500
Fire hose testing completed annually, after being reparied or after being run over by a vehicle.
What is service testing?
500
Tactical priorities for any incident.
What are life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation.