HOSE & APPLIANCES
Referred to as sexless couplings and are connected with one third of a turn.
What is storz couplings?
When hose is laid from the water source to the fire.
What is a forward lay?
Try before you pry
What you should do before forcing a door?
A feature on screw thread couplings where the beginning of the thread is cut to provide a positive connection.
What is the higbee cut?
Occurs when the flow of water in a hose line is stopped suddenly resulting in a water surge.
What is water hammer?
Draw fire to uninvolved sections
What is forcing the wrong window or door in a structure fire can cause this?
With positive pressure ventilation, the discharge opening must be this size.
What is the same size as the entry opening?
Used to stop the flow of water to allow replacement of a burst section of hose or add more sections.
What is hose clamp?
The type of stream resulting from the use of a smoothbore nozzle.
What is solid stream?
A tool/device used mainly to cut steel and/or concrete.
What is K-12/ rescue saw.
By rendering infrared radiation as visible light, such cameras allow firefighters to see areas of heat through smoke, darkness, or heat-permeable barriers.
What is a thermal imaging camera or TIC?
The type of load that is the easiest to load for large diameter hose and most prevalent on our trucks.
What is flat load?
The most common type of foam proportioner that can be connected at any point in the hose lay.
What is an in-line foam eductor?
The two tools that most take for entry into residential structures.
What is the halligan and flat head axe?
oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical chain reaction
What is the fire tetrahedron?
The coupling that has lugs on the shank.
What is the male coupling?
life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation
What are the fireground priorities?
The energy possessed by a moving object
What is kinetic energy?
immediately dangerous to life and health
What is IDLH?