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This is the most important thing on the fire line.
What is safety?
This many personal should be in close proximity to a helicopter bucket drop.
What is one?
On a large incident this is where someone would acquire chap stick to ease sun chapped lips.
What is the Medical tent?
This size of smoke particulate poses the greatest health risk.
What is Pm 2.5?
This size of fire is where most tragedy's occur.
What is small fires or deceptively quiet areas of large fires?
This person is the sawyers partner.
Who is the swamper?
These qualifications are required to be able to hook up a helicopter long line.
What are HECM, and a current long line refresher?
This person assumes command of an emergency medical situation.
Who is the highest qualified person on scene? Not the IC of the initial incident.
This is the best treatment for mild-moderate carbon monoxide exposure.
What is Clean air? With in 2 hours carbon monoxide levels can be cut in half.
This fuel type is most common in tragedy fires.
What is relatively light fuels such as grass, herbs, and light brush?
This heavy helicopter that fills with a large suction nozzle is capable of carrying up to 2500 gallons of water.
What is a Sky Crane?
This is the appropriate retardant coverage level for closed timber.
What is coverage level 8?
These are the three severity types used during a medical incident report.
What are Green-Minor injury, Yellow- Serious injury or illness, red- priority 1 life or limb threatening injury?
These are three signs of carbon monoxide exposure.
What are increased heart rate, increased respiration, head ache, eye irritation, and confusion?
This can cause a fire to rapidly change direction and speed.
What is when there is an unexpected shift in wind direction or speed?
This is the instrument in a belt weather kit is capable of giving you the dry bulb and wet bulb.
What is a sling psychrometer?
This is the easiest way to describe a target to a helicopter pilot.
What is use non generic descriptors, cardinal directions, orientation of target based on the helicopter, a signal panel or strobe? Don't say "I'm by that tree".
This datum is used when calling in longitude/latitude for medical transport.
What is WGS 84? Degrees minutes decimal minutes.
47 Degrees 11.86' X 120 Degrees 57.275'
These are the three most common tasks that cause fire fighters to be exposed to excessive smoke.
What are Mop up, direct line, holding?
Fire behavior is usually the most intense during this critical burn period.
What is between 1400-1700?
This is another term for foam.
What is Surfactant?
This PPE is necessary to get on a helicopter.
What is long pants, long sleeves, gloves, earplugs, and hard hat with chin strap or flight helmet?
This is a method of measuring the extent of burns on a patients body.
What is The Rule of Palms? The palm of the patients hand is approximately one percent of the patients over all body. If a patient is burned more than four palm sizes of second or third degree burns they are classified as red and immediately transported.
Wild land smoke has been described as a "toxic freight train" consisting of six elements. Name three.
What are Carbon Monoxide, Adlehides, Nitrogen Oxide, Sulfur Oxide, Particulates, Crystalline silica?
On many tragedy fires, such as Man Gulch, a weather event combined with this topographic feature caused rapid fire growth.
What are steep slopes?