HazMat
The release, or potential release of a hazardous material from its container into the environment.
What is a hazardous materials incident?
A system that uses a primary water source that sits at a high elevation such as an elevated storage tank.
What is a gravity system?
The person in overall command and responsible for all activities and the one position that must be filled on every incident.
What is the incident commander?
Searching for and extinguishing hidden fires.
What is overhaul?
When hose is laid from the water source to the fire.
What is a forward lay?
Inhalation, skin absorption, ingestion, direct contact, or injection.
What are the routes of exposure?
The type of water main valve that visually shows whether the gate or valve seat is open or closed.
What is an indicating valve?
Answers directly to the incident commander and has the authority to shut down all operations when conditions merit.
What is the safety officer?
Used to drain runoff from the ceiling above out through windows or doors.
Occurs when the flow of water in a hose line is stopped suddenly resulting in a water surge.
What is a water hammer?
Type of tactics that require responders to control/mitigate the emergency from within/inside the area of high risk.
What is offensive tactics?
Color of hydrant indicating a GPM of less than 500.
What is red?
Responsible for providing equipment, materials, and services needed to support the incident.
What is logistics?
The tool most commonly used to open ceilings to check on fire extension.
What is a pike pole?
Type of nozzle used to be driven into car hoods and sides of trailers.
What is a piercing nozzle?
The time it takes for the activity of a radioactive material to decrease to one half of its initial value through radioactive decay.
What is a half-life?
The process of raising water from a static source to supply a pumper.
What is drafting?
The number of personnel one person can manage.
What is span of control?
In the area of actual fire involvement.
Where does overhaul begin?
Term for an object used to divide a single hose line into two lines
You arrive to a HazMat incident involving a truck rolled over into a ditch and learn from the driver it is carrying Potassium Bromate. You are unable to see the UN number. This is where you should look FIRST in the ERG to start gathering information.
What is the Blue bordered section? Materials Index Section.
Used as a filter when drafting from a natural source.
What is a strainer?
The type of command used when the incident is multi-jurisdictional and there may be more than one incident commander.
Used to check void spaces and look for hotspots.
What is a TIC?
At 212 F, water expands approximately _____ times its original volume when converted to steam.
What is 1700?