Chemial Properties
T or F? Turn out gear provides adequate protection from all Hazardous Materials
False
Up Hill - Up Wind
How do you approach a hazardous material incident?
Classes of hazardous Materials
9 Classes. 1-Explosives, 2-Gases, 3-Flammable Gas-Liquides, 4-Flammable Solids, Spontaneously Combustible, Dangerous when Wet, 5-Oxidizers and Organic Peroxides, 6-Toxic, 7-Radioactive, 8-Corrosives, 9-Miscellaneous
This section if the ERG provides you with general response guidelines for the material involved.
What is Orange section?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
What are the three states of matter?
Located in the warm zone
Decon
Liquid
What is the state of matter that has mass, but not a specific shape?
Potential are hazards faced from a hazmat incident. Acronym: TRACE-MP
What are: T- Thermal, R- Radiological, A- Asphyxiation, C- Chemical, E- Etiological, M- Mechanical, P- Psychological
Non-Bulk Containers
Drums, Bags, Carboys.
Measures a concentration of vapors or mists in the air that will be fatal to a test group, expressed in parts per million (ppm) normally.
What is Lethal Concentration?
Vapor Density
What's the chemical property of gas to air.
Self reactions that release much energy, often violently.
What is Polymerization?
Lower Explosive / Upper Explosive Limit
What is LEL, UEL the amount of vapor to air mixture.
You arrive to a HazMAt incident involving an truck rolled over into a ditch and you learn from the driver it is carrying Potassium Bromate. You are unable to see the UN number. This is where should you look FIRST in the ERG for to start gathering information.
What is the Blue boarded section? Material Index Section.
The exposure value that could be repeated a maximum of 4 times daily for 15 minutes, with a 60 minute rest period between exposures.
What is TLV-STEL?
Pyrophoric Reaction
What is a material that can self-Ignites.
These make up the Fire Triangle
Heat, Fuel, and Oxygen.
Primary hazard to a responder while rescuing victims in a building where non-flammable class 2 product is leaking.
What is Inhalation?
This is the area in which people are at most risk of harmful exposure.
What is Protective Action Zone, or Hot Zone?
NFPA 704, What does the it mean with the letters (SA) in the White Section
Simple Asphyxiant.