Miscellaneous I
Miscellaneous II
Miscellaneous III
Vehicle Fires
Miscellaneous IV
100
Actions generally performed in the interior of involved structures that involve a direct attack on a fire to directly control and extinguish the fire.
What is an offensive operation?
100
This is a master stream appliance that can be positioned wherever a master stream is needed.
What is a portable monitor or ground monitor?
100
The three primary mechanisms by which heat is transferred is conduction, convection, and this.
What is radiation?
100
Vehicles that are powered by electricity.
What are battery electric vehicles?
100
Only this class of extinguishing agents should be used when energized equipment is involved in a fire.
What is Class C?
200
A solid column of water.
What is a solid stream?
200
Firefighting operations involving the application of extinguishing agents to reduce the build-up of heat released from a fire without applying the agent directly onto the burning fuel.
What is an indirect attack?
200
The material covering the gap between the edge of the roof and the exterior wall of the house.
What is soffit?
200
Vehicles that use internal combustion engines for power.
What are conventional vehicles?
200
For a vehicle fire you should always approach from an uphill and upwind position moving in at this degree angle.
What is 45?
300
Actions that are intended to control a fire by limiting its spread to a defined area, avoiding the commitment of personnel and equipment to dangerous areas.
What is a defensive operation?
300
A monitor that attaches to the rungs of a vehicle-mounted aerial ladder.
What is a ladder pipe?
300
A power system designed to convert solar energy into electrical energy.
What are solar photovoltaic(PV) systems?
300
Vehicles that use both a battery-powered electric motor and a liquid-fueled engine to propel a vehicle.
What is a hybrid electric vehicle?
300
Firefighters should never attempt to remove this to disconnect power.
What is an electric meter?
400
Picture A depicts this and Picture B depicts this.
What is a straight stream and what is a fog stream?
400
A type of attack employing both direct attack and indirect attack methods.
What is a combination attack?
400
This refers to the actions that are taken to prevent the spread of a fire to areas that are not already burning.
What is protecting exposures?
400
A vehicle that uses anything other than a petroleum-based motor fuel to propel a motorized vehicle.
What is an alternative-fuel vehicle?
400
Gaseous fuel that escapes form the system is called this.
What is fugitive gas?
500
An offensive fire attack initiated by an exterior, indirect handline operation into the fire compartment to initiate cooling while transitioning into interior direct fire attack in coordination with ventilation operations.
What is a transitional attack?
500
A deck gun is permanently mounted on a vehicle and equipped with a piping system that are sometimes called this.
What are turret pipes or wagon pipes?
500
This refers to the rate of heat transfer to or from one surface to another.
What is heat flux?
500
Cells that generate electricity through a chemical reaction between hydrogen gas and oxygen gas to produce water and in the process produce electricity to propel a vehicle.
What are fuel cells?
500
This should be used to extinguish transformer fires after the power has been disconnected.
What is a Dry-Chemical extinguisher?