Fire Behavior
The Three most important factors that affect wildland firefighting area?
Fuel, Weather, and Topography
The five types of building construction are?
Fire Resistive - Type 1
Non-combustible - Type 2
Ordinary - Type 3
Heavy Timber - Type 4
Wood Frame - Type 5
The term for a roll call taken by a supervisor at an emergency incident is a?
Personnel Accountability Report.
Atmospheres are classified as oxygen deficient when the fall below ____ percent oxygen.
19.5
What type of extinguisher may be required to extinguish a restaurant kitchen fire involving the fryers?
Type K
Prior to entering a fire area with a charged hoseline, the nozzle operator should first?
Bleed the air from the line.
What document is a source of facts about a structure?
A pre-incident plan
The most commonly accepted order of fire ground priorities is referred to through this acronym?
LIP
Life Safety - Incident Stabilization - Property Conservation
Vapors and gases with a vapor densities less then 1 will tend to:
Rise up in the air
A hose clamp should be placed approximately _____ Feet from a coupling and on the _____ side of the coupling.
5 Feet / Incoming (water supply)
To force entry into an outward swinging door, where should the halligan tool be applied?
Space between the door jam and door near the lock.
Opening a concrete wall is know as:
Breaching
_____ is the number of people an individual can effectively supervise. The optimum number of persons is ___ and the with the limits generally set at ___ to ___.
Span of Control
5
3 to 7
Diking, damming and diverting are _____ options available for _____ control.
offensive / spill
The parts of an extension ladder that prevent the fly section from being overextended are called?
Stops
What are some warning signals of a possible backdraft?
-Black Smoke turning greyish yellow.
-Little to no visable flame
-Smoke stained windows
-Smoke leaving the building and being drawn back in.
Sudden Rapid air inward.
A type of wood framing that has vertical channels going from floor to floor allowing a fire to travel uninterrupted is _____________.
Balloon frame construction.
The _____ serves to coordinate the flow of personnel into and out of the fire area with the Incident Commander.
Accountability Officer
Vapors that attack the mucous membranes, such as the surface of the eyes, nose and throat, are considered;
Irritants
The tool that has two retractable blades that depress as the head is driven through an obstruction (wall) and reopens is the:
Plaster Hook.
A Kurf Cut is?
A single cut the width of the saw blade made in a roof to check for fire extension.
At _____ degree F steel will begin to elongate, a 100 FT beam at this temperature will expand about ____ inches
1000 degrees
9.5 inches
The process of dividing large jobs into smaller jobs to make them more manageable is described as:
Division of Labor
The radiation that is least dangerous as a threat to external portions of the body but is very dangerous if ingested or inhaled is:
Alpha
The most common danger that the firefighter experiences occurs:
Riding in fire apparatus