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The maximum number of of people one supervisor can control.
What is SPAN OF CONTROL?
The person whom is ultimately responsible for everything and everyone on the fire ground.
Who is the INCIDENT COMMANDER?
Hose roll that begins at the male and rolls all the way to female and is primarily used for storage.
What is a STRAIGHT ROLL?
Knot used to join 2 pieces of webbing or to create a closed loop in webbing.
What is a WATER KNOT?
The searching for and extinguishing of hidden fires.
What is OVERHAUL?
States that each person shall only report to just one supervisor.
What is UNITY OF COMMAND?
Person who monitors operational safety at emergency incidents.
Who is the SAFETY OFFICER?
The four parts of the fire tetrahedron.
What are heat, fuel, oxygen, and the chemical chain reaction?
The portion of an extension ladder that locks the fly into a specific spot.
What are the pawls or dogs?
Item created with pike poles and tarps to funnel water to a desired location.
What is a WATER CHUTE?
The chemical change of a solid off-gassing.
What is PYROLYSIS?
Organizational level having the responsibility for a specific functional assignment at an incident.
What is a GROUP?
The mark on the outside of the coupling rocker lugs the shows you where the threads begin.
What is the HIGBEE INDICATOR?
The length of ladder required to reach a first story roof.
What is 16-20 feet?
The general location of where the fire started.
What is the AREA OF ORIGIN?
Collection of rules and regs that has been enacted by law in a jurisdiction.
What is a CODE?
Organizational level having responsibilty for a major functional area of incident management such as; operations, planning, etc.
What is a SECTION?
The E in the LCES acronym for ground cover fire safety principles.
What are Escape Routes?
The part of the rope between the part used to form the knot and the part used to hoist or pull.
What is the standing part?
Combustible materials used to spread the fire from one area to another.
What is a TRAILER?
Flammable liquids such as alcohols that will readily mix with water.
What are POLAR SOLVENTS?
The incident complexity type that requires 1-2 companies with up to 6 personnel. Essentially only the IC command staff position is used.
What is a type 5 incident?
Additional section of hose added to a hose load and arranged in a manner to allow for a rapid deployment as a supply hose or attack line depending on forward or reverse lays.
What is a HOSE LOAD FINISH?
When one of more walls of a multistory build collapse, leaving the floors attached and supported by the remaining walls.
What is a CANTILEVER COLLAPSE?
Ensuring that the O2, CO, HCN levels are within acceptable ranges prior to removing SCBA.
What is air monitoring?