HOSE & APPLIANCES
ICS
FIRE STREAMS
RESCUE
KNOW YOUR OGs
200
Used to stop the flow of water to allow replacement of a burst section of hose.
What is hose clamp?
200
The person in overall command and responsible for all activities.
What is incident commander?
200
When hose is laid from the water source to the fire.
What is a forward lay?
200
A rapid, thorough search done to locate victims a soon as possible.
What is a primary search?
200

The location from where the Incident Commander can draw upon resources.

What is Staging.

400
The indicator mark on the end of a coupling to line up threads.

What is the higbee?

400
Answer directly to the incident commander and has the authority to shut down all operations when conditions merit.
What is the safety officer?
400
Occurs when the flow of water in a hose is stopped suddenly resulting in a water surge.
What is a water hammer?
400

What a firefighter should do when they become trapped or injured?

What is, Call a mayday! 

400

A RIT team shall be established within ________ minutes after the Initial Attack on a fire.

What is 10 minutes

600
This appliance is used to penetrate walls and floors to extinguish a fire.

Piercing Nozzle

600
The number of personnel one person can manage is called?
What is span of control?
600
The type of stream resulting from the use of a smoothbore nozzle.
What is a solid stream?
600

The act of securing a vehicle (s) while on scene. 

What is stabilization?

600

Name of the Operational Guideline that goes into effect in the fall.

What is Winter Operations.

800
The appliance that has two or three female connections coming into one male discharge exiting the connection.
What is a Siamese?
800
Responsible for providing equipment, materials, and services needed to support the incident.
What is logistics?
800
The most common type of foam proportioner that can be connected at any point in the hose lay.
What is an in-line foam inductor?
800

What is the immediate area around an incident called?

What is the Hot Zone.

800

How far away from downed power lines should a Safety Perimeter be?

What is 10 meters

1000

Referred to as sexless couplings and are connected with one third of a turn

What is a Storz-type coupling?

1000
The type of command used when the incident is multi-jurisdictional and there may be more than one incident commander.
What is Unified Command?
1000
used to achieve maximum water surface for heat absorption and is composed of very fine water droplets.
What is a fog stream?
1000

How many minutes is the RIT bottle good for under normal circumstances?

60

1000

What does RECEOVS stand for?

What is Rescue, Exposures, Confine, Extinguish, Overhaul, Ventilate, Salvage

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