Chapter 14: Water Supply Systems
The term for the quantity of water that is being moved through a pipe or hose
What is flow?
Name of the wrench that is used to tighten or loosen couplings
What is a spanner wrench?
A hoseline is advanced to a building to attack a fire in this type of a(n) attack
What is an offensive attack?
The name for a master stream device that is permanently mounted on an engine and plumbed directly into the pump
What is a deck gun?
The primary mechanism by which carbon dioxide extinguishes a fire
what is displacing oxygen?
The name for the type of motion that an object in motion possesses
What is kinetic energy
Name of the device that splits one hose stream into two
What is a Wye or a gated Wye
This is the most frequently used supply line evolution by a first arriving engine
What is a forward lay?
The name for an operation that is conducted for the inside of a fire building
What is an offensive attack
The type of sprinkler system where the piping is filled with pressurized air instead of water
What is a dry system?
Where a dry hydrant provides access to
What is a static water source?
This type of valve is opened or closed by rotating a handle a quarter turn
What is a butterfly valve?
This attack line load is particularly useful when the line must be advanced up a stairway
What is a minuteman load?
Studies conducted by the NIST and UL have found that the movement of fire through a structure is dependent primarily on this
What is a flow path?
The class of standpipe that is intended for fire department use only
What is class I?
The name for the part of the hose that a firefighter may need to hold on to while filling a self-expanding portable tank
What is the collar?
The potentially offensive name of the hose appliance that combines two hose lines into one
What is Siamese?
The term for a combined, offensive, exterior, and interior operation
What is a blitz?
In modern residential construction, fresh air enters the attic space through this vent
What is the soffit?
The type of detector that is commonly installed in air ducts of large buildings
What is an air sampling detector?
The term used to describe the decrease in pressure that occurs as water moves through a hose
What is friction loss?
The volume at which a 2 1/2" handline generally flows
What is 250 gpm?
The name for the hose load that has the hose up on its edge and laid side-to-side in the hose bed
What is an accordion load?
This type of stream is most likely to disrupt thermal balance
What is a fog stream?
The name of the standardized audio pattern that must be produced by a modern audible fire alarm
What is a termoral-3 alarm