Fire Behavior
Building Construction
Response and Size-up
Tools and Equipment
Terms
100
The three basic conditions needed for fire to occur.
What is Fuel, Oxygen, and Heat?
100
Refers to how a building is used...
What is Occupancy?
100
A method of tracking the identity, assignment, and location of fire fighters operating at an incident scene.
What is (PAR) Personal Accountability System?
100
A prying tool designed for use in the fire service that also incorporates a pick, an adz, and a fork made of forged steel.
What is a Halligan Tool?
100
The lowest Temperature at which a substance releases enough vapors to ignite and sustain combustion.
What is Flame Point (Fire Point)?
200
The process of transferring heat through matter by movement of the kinetic energy from one particle to another.
What is Conduction?
200
They help prevent the spread of fire from one side to the other.
What are Fire Walls?
200
A process conducted after the fire is under control with the goal being to completely extinguish any remaining pockets of fire.
What is Overhaul?
200
Used to pull the lock cylinder our of a door, exposing the locking mechanism so it can be unlocked easily.
What is a K Tool?
200
The minimum temperature at which a fuel, when heated, will give ignite in air and continue to burn.
What is Ignition Temperature?
300
States of Matter
What is Solid, Liquid and Gas?
300
Whether or not a material will burn determines its...
What is Combustibility?
300
Include ALL the means that are available to fight a fire or conduct emergency operations at any type of emergency incident.
What Resources?
300
Used to break tempered glass of an automobile.
What is a spring loaded center punch?
300
The Stratification (heat layers) that occurs in a room as a result of a fire.
What is Thermal Layering?
400
Solid fuel fires progress through four phases...
What is Ignition Phase, Growth Phase, Fully Developed Phase, and Decay Phase?
400
The five types of construction.
What is Type 1 (Fire Resistive), Type 2 (Noncombustable), Type 3 (Ordinary), Type 4 (Heavy Timber), and Type 5 (Wood Frame)?
400
Size-up relies on two basic categories of information.
What Facts and Probabilities?
400
An area at the scene for the purpose of keeping equipment organized and available for use if needed.
What is a Tool Staging Area?
400
The weight of an airborne concentration (vapor or gas) as compared to an equal volume of dry air.
What is Vapor Density?
500
The chemical decomposition of a compound into one or more other substances by heat alone.
What is Pyrolysis?
500
Roof construction popular in warehouses, supermarkets, and similar buildings with large, open floor areas.
What is Bowstring Construction?
500
The five basic fire-ground objectives listed in PRIORITY.
What are Rescue Victims; Protect Exposures: Confine the Fire; Extinguish the Fire; and Salvage and Overhaul the Fire?
500
A hydraulic spreading tool designed to pry open doors that swing inward.
What is a Rabbet Tool?
500
Smooth or stream lined movement of smoke. it indicates that a pressure in the building is not excessively high.
What is Laminar Smoke Flow?
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