Culture of the fire service
This is described as a measure of where a person stands in times of challenge and controversy.
What is integrity?
This role watched he overall operation for unsafe practices.
What is the Incident Safety Officer?
This role is trained in special rescue techniques for incidents involving structural collapse, trench rescue, swiftwater rescue, confined-space rescue, high-angle rescue and other unusual situations.
What is a technical rescuer?
Fire and building codes are used to create and maintain safety in the built environment. Enforcing these codes reduces the risk in the community in both the short and long term. This describes which one of the 5 E's
What is enforcement?
These provide specific information on the actions that should be taken to accomplish a certain task.
What are SOP's?
A company officer who is usually responsible for a single fire company on a single shift, the first in line among company officers.
What is a lieutenant?
Historically speaking, this is installed to control water access from wooden pipes. Today, this is a slang term used to describe a fire hydrant.
What is a fireplug?
This is defined as the physical, moral, and mental strength of a person.
What is courage?
Often called an engineer or technician, this role is responsible for getting the fire apparatus to the scene safely, as well as setting up and running the pump or operating the aerial device once it arrives on the scene.
What is the drive/operator?
Also known as ARFF's.
What is an Aircraft/crash Rescue Firefighter?
Changing behavior by teaching people about fire and emergency prevention and response.
What is Education?
These are developed by various government or government-authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by a government body.
What is a regulation?
Usually the first level of fire chief. They are often in charge of running calls and supervising multiple stations or districts within a city.
What is a battalion chief?
Covering a fire to ensure low burning.
What is banked?
This is required to take action when you have doubts or fears about the consequences.
What is moral courage?
This role is responsible for the management of all incident operations.
What is the Incident Commander?
This is what SCUBA stands for.
What is self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
This well trained and prepared type of force is essential to the unique aspects of the communities it serves.
What is an emergency response?
SOG
What is a Standard Operating Guideline?
A rank structure, spanning the firefighter through the fire chief, for managing a fire department and fire-ground operations.
What is the Chain of Command?
An atmosphere-supplying respirator that supplies a respirable air atmosphere to the user from a breathing air source that is independent of the ambient environnment and designed to be carried by the user.
What is a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA)?
This is defined as a deep admiration for something or someone elicited by his or her abilities, achievements, or qualities.
What is respect?
This role is usually a lieutenant or captain who is in charge of an apparatus. They lead the company both on scene and at the station.
What is a company officer?
This role has training and certification in chemical identification, leak control, decontamination, and clean-up procedures
What is a Hazardous Materials Technician?
Using technology to make buildings and products safer.
What is Engineering?
These are developed to provide definitive guidelines for present and future actions.
What are policies?
That organizational level having responsibility for operations within a defined geographic location
What is a division chief?
Individuals who were charged with enforcing fire regulations in colonial America
What are fire wardens?
This is a combination of emotional, intellectual, and moral qualities that constitute a person. It is based on values, and it is a combination of our actions and words.
What is character?
This role takes calls from the public and sends appropriate units to the scene.
What is the 911 dispatcher?
This role is trained in rescue, recover, and search procedures in both water and under-ice situations.
What is a SCUBA dive rescue technician?
Providing financial motivation can encourage beneficial behaviors and choices describes this.
What is economic incentives?
The process by which an organization exercises authority and performs the functions assigned to it.
What is a governance?
The second rank of promotion in the fire service, between the lieutenant and the battalion chief. They are responsible for managing a fire company and for coordinating the activities of that company among the other shifts.
What is a Captain?
Tools used to pull down burning structures.
What are fire hooks?