The Toys
Lines already attached to the rig ready for deployment. Typically 1.75" or 2.5"
Preconnects or Attack Lines
A tool used to assist in breaking windows up high when no ladder is available
Pike Pole
Directing water through an open window or door during a transitional attack to cool the room for safe entry
Resetting the Fire/Resetting the Clock
An action we take once arriving on scene, but what we actually begin doing as soon as the tones drop to prepare ourselves.
Size Up
Defensive Attack
Nozzle with different available stream patterns
Combination Nozzle
This fire event can occur when an oxygen deprived fire rapidly receives fresh oxygen
Backdraft
This is the tool you would use to help you pop open a structure door while going interior
Halligan Tool
An action we take upon arrival to let others know whats going down.
CAN Report or Scene Report
Smoke showing, heavy flames visible venting through upstairs window
Transitional Attack
Appliance that creates a fan shaped stream pattern
The Wonder Wall
The near-simultaneous ignition of most of the directly exposed combustible material in an enclosed area.
Flashover
This term is used to describe how air moves through a structure
Flow Path
Dont let the truck burn up....
Truck Placement
Smoke alarms with visible smoke but no flames. Smoke visible upon arrival, still no flames
Offensive Attack
A tactic which must be coordinated with the nozzle man's fire attack. If done wrong, could create hostile fire environment.
Ventilation
This smoke can tell a firefighter where a well ventilated fire could be
Thin, Black fast moving smoke
This term describes how much pressure is lost while water flows through a hose
Friction Loss
This is what the home and trees next door to the fire scene is called.
Exposures
Dispatched to working fire in kitchen. Nothing showing from exterior.
Offensive Attack
A hose line that is used to assist reaching fires that are out of reach of the attack lines.
Courtyard lay, or 2.5 with gated wye
A water stream application that delivers 350 gallons of water per minute, typically from a deck gun, deluge gun or fire monitor
Master Stream
The stream application needed to cool a room from the exterior
Straight Stream
The acronym used for the needed componants to a scene size up/CAN report
SOCCER-CAC
Attached Garage Fire, black smoke showing through eves of home
Transitional Attack