Total potential heat release if a building and it's contents burned.
What is fire load?
100
A term for materials that are capable of being mixed.
What is miscible?
100
The two basic types are fixed temperature and rate-of-rise.
What are Heat Detectors?
100
That part of water that is lost while forcing water through pipes, fittings, hose, etc.
What is Friction Loss?
100
The opening song from this series was performed by the Von Blondies
What is Rescue Me?
200
A type of wood frame construction in which the studs in exterior walls extend from basement/foundation to ceiling.
What is balloon frame.
200
Liquid nitrogen and helium fall into this Placard Hazard Class.
What is Class 2?
200
A type of smoke detector that uses a small amount of radioactive material, usually americium).
What is Ionization Smoke Detector?
200
The point where a fire stream loses it's forward velocity.
What is Breakover?
200
2004 firefighter movie that takes place in Maryland.
What is Ladder 49?
300
An open space between a roof and ceiling of a commercial or industrial building.
What is a cockloft?
300
The system that is commonly required by local ordinances for all occupancies that contain hazardous materials.
What is the NFPA 704 system?
300
The minimum clearance between sprinklers and stored materials.
What is 18"?
300
The term used to describe the mixing of water with foam concentrate to form a foam solution.
What is proportioning?
300
KMG 365
What is the FCC station license number for the base radio in TV's Emergency!
400
Degradation of concrete due to prolonged exposure to high heat.
What is spalling?
400
Placard Hazard Class for radioactive materials.
What is Class 7?
400
Made up of those that detect - light in the ultraviolet wave spectrum, light in the infrared wave spectrum, and those that detect both.
What are Flame Detectors?
400
The four ways foam extinguishes/prevents fire.
What are separating, cooling, smothering, and penetrating?
400
The show ran from 1999-2005, and was set and filmed in New York City, and had storylines centered on the lives of police officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the firefighters and paramedics of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
What is Third Watch?
500
A roof characterized by a single ridge line from which roof sections on both sides of the ridge descend at two different pitches.
What is a gambrel roof?
500
The 3 sides of the HAZMAT reactivity triangle.
What is Activation Energy, Reducing Agent (fuel), and Oxidizing Agent
500
The temperature rating for the "ordinary" (uncolored or black) sprinkler head.
What is 135-170F (57-77C)?
500
They vary the rate of flow to maintain a reasonably nozzle pressure through a specific flow range.
What are Automatic (constant-pressure) Nozzles?
500
A 1974 American action drama disaster film featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman; nominated for eight Oscars in all, winning three.