General Knowledge
Hives, pallor, bronchospasm, wheezing, upper airway obstruction, and hypotension; indicates?
What is an Allergic Reaction
Sever Crushing chest pain, or substernal pressure, radiating to left arm/or jaw, shortness of breath, diaphoresis, pallor, dysrhythmias, hypertension or hypotension indicates possibility of this.
What is a Acute Myocardial Infarction?
When directions are given to a rescue boat during a water rescue incident the directions (right and left) are referred to as this.
What is river right and river left?
This type of collapse involves void spaces on outside walls and failure of center supports in a floor system.
What is V-Shaped Collapse?
Located at 8070 Tartan Fields Drive.
What is The Club at Tartan Fields?
Length of blitz lines carried on E343?
What is 250ft?
The maximum heat that can be produced if all the combustibles in an area burn.
What is fire load?
This construction type has non-combustible walls, a wood roof and can include tilt-slab or reinforced masonry construction.
What is Type 3 (Ordinary Construction)?
Total gallons of water on scene if Q341 and E343 are on scene?
What is 1500 gallons?
Length of supply line on E343.
What is 1500 ft.?
These three products of combustion( carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen cyanide) are considered...
What is hazardous?
Construction type that both UL and NIST have studied and found that components will fail within minutes of direct flame impingement.
What is Type 5 - Wood Framed Construction?
Standard for Firefighter Health and Safety
What is NFPA 1500?
Device in our cache of equipment that allows changing from lowering to hauling system without changing out hardware.
What is an MPD
This type of knot makes a non-directional loop.
What is a butterfly knot?
Route that air/oxygen takes when it heads in to feed the fire and the route that fire, smoke or heat heads for, to leave the building.
What is the Flow Path?
Type of collapse where one or more walls have failed, and the other end of the floor is still attached to the other bearing wall. Voids are sporadic throughout the debris. The most dangerous type of collapse to operate in, and adequate shoring must be in place before operations can commence.
What is Cantilever Collapse?
Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments.
What is NFPA 1710?
These two ratios are the mechanical advantages built into to the AZTEC Pulley system.
What is 4:1 and 5:1
This device is the preferred rope grab device when preforming a water based rescue.
What is an ascender?
Cracks or separation in walls, ceilings, floors, or roof, loose bricks or stones falling from the building, and deteriorated mortar between masonry are indications of this imminent danger.
What is building collapse?
Maximum length of a header used in building a single T-Shore.
What is 3ft?
Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services.
What is NFPA 1983?