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These colored pages list pertinent information about specific categories of hazards.
What is orange?
This is the first priority of Haz Mat Operations personnel.
What is safety?
This is the IDLH of Carbon Monoxide, a chemical asphyxiant.
What is 1200 ppm?
The Decontamination Equipment is located in a trailer at this station.
What is Station 4?
EVERY GOOD FIRE FIGHTER ONLY PERFORMS RANDOM CARDIO MONTHLY is the mnemonic for this.
What are the names of the nine classes of Hazardous Materials?
These colored pages list products alphabetically by their name.
What is blue?
This standard presents a simple, readily recognized, and easily understood system of markings (commonly referred to as the "NFPA hazard diamond") that provides an immediate general sense of the hazards of a material and the severity of these hazards as they relate to emergency response.
What is the NFPA 704?
The MultiRae will alarm at this percentage of the Lower Explosive Limit.
What is 10%?
This is the most common type of Decontamination used with a mass casualty event.
What is gross decon?
This first class of hazardous materials can be quite a bang.
What is Explosives?
These colored pages list products numerically by their Identification number.
What is yellow?
Diking and damning are considered this type of strategy and may be undertaken by HazMat Ops personnel.
What is defensive strategy?
This is the IDLH for Carbon Dioxide, a simple asphyxiant.
What is 40,000?
This is the easiest way to set up the decontamination equipment at a hazardous materials scene.
What is follow the pictures?
This seventh class of hazardous materials is the result of unstable atoms.
What is radioactive?
These colored pages provide isolation distances for products listed by their identification number.
What is green?
A green background placard represents this type of hazard.
What is non-flammable gas?
On the engine, these are the six gases that can be monitored by the Multi-Rae.
What are Oxygen, Hydrogen Sulfide, Hydrogen Cyanide, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, LEL?
The inflatable decon tent can be filled these two ways.
What are with SCBA bottles or the air pump?
This Hazardous Materials Class is a catch-all for everything not covered in the other classes.
What is Miscellaneous, Class 9?
1-800-222-1222 is the phone number for this.
What is poison control?
This type of hazard identification using one of the five senses has been determined to always be unsafe.
What is tasting?
For every percentage of Oxygen displaced in air there are roughly this many parts per million of something else present.
What is 50,000?
Personnel performing decon should wear this.
What is a suit level no more than 1 level less than tech personnel?
This fifth class of hazardous materials can be especially dangerous around fire.
What are Oxidizers?