Oh Say Can You "C" – answers that begin with the letter C
Fire Behavior
Ground Ladders
Rescue
HOSE AND APPLIANCES/FIRE STREAMS
100
Transfer of head through direct contact.
What is conduction?
100
The tendency of gases to form into layers according to temperature.
What is thermal layering?
100
Devices attached to the inside of the beams on fly sections used to hold the fly section in place after it has been extended.
What is the pawls? (also accept dogs or ladder locks)
100
A rapid, thorough search done to locate victims as soon as possible.
What is a primary search?
100
When hose is laid from the water source to the fire.
What is a forward lay?
200
Created from a salvage cover placed on the floor to hold small amounts of water.
What is a catchall.
200
An explosive ignition that can occur when air is allowed to mix with hot, unburned fire gases
What is backdraft?
200
Single ladders equipped with folding hooks on one end.
What is a roof ladder?
200
Immediately activate the PASS device.
What should a firefighter do when they become trapped or injured.
200
Occurs when the flow of water in a hose line is stopped suddenly resulting in a water surge.
What is a water hammer?
300
The pathway of responsibility from the highest level of the department to the lowest.
What is chain of command?
300
Extinguishment of fire through cooling with water
What is temperature reduction?
300
The desired angle of inclination that the ladder should be placed for climbing.
What is 75 degrees?
300
Providing additional support to key places between a vehicle and the ground to prevent further movement.
What is stabilization (stabilizing the vehicle)?
300
The type of stream resulting from the use of a smoothbore nozzle.
What is a solid stream?
400
A self-sustaining chemical reaction yielding energy or products that cause further reactions of the same kind
What is combustion.
400
The classification of fires involving energized electrical equipment.
What is a Class C fire?
400
Place the tip of the ladder just below the windowsill.
Where should a ladder be placed to perform a rescue from a window opening?
400
Using a spring-loaded center punch or striking with a sharp point at the lower corner.
How do you remove tempered glass from side and rear windows?
400
The most common type of foam proportioner that can be connected at any point in the hose lay.
What is an in-line foam eductor.
500
The most common of the hazardous substances contained in smoke that is a product of combustion.
What is the carbon monoxide.
500
Oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical reaction.
What is are the components of the fire tetrahedron?
500
Eight to ten feet.
What is the height of a residential story?
500
The pattern of collapse when outer walls remain standing and the floors or roof fail in the middle leaving voids on both sides of the collapse.
What is a V-shaped collapse?
500
Used to achieve maximum water surface for heat absorption and is composed of very fine water droplets.
What is a fog stream?
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