Stuff You Should Know
A CAN report.
What are conditions, actions, and needs?
The person in charge of a patient lift.
Who is the person at the patient's head?
The three parts of the fire triangle.
What are heat, fuel, and oxygen?
On scene with 419 and 416. You need an Aluminized Blanket.
What is in officer's side, rear roll-up, shelf 2.
Tie off to a flat-head ax for hoisting.
Tie a figure eight on a bight, slide the loop over the handle, wrap the loop/knot under the ax head, tie a half hitch at the end of the handle.
The first step of forcible entry.
What is try-before-you-pry?
A tool used to stabilize a Toyota Camry positioned on its wheels in the middle of lane 2 at the 173.
What is a step chock, or step chocks?
Ignition without external flame or spark.
What is autoignition (or non-piloted ignition)?
On scene with 421, you need a 10' pike pole.
What is in the rear, officer's side hard-suction compartment?
Deploy a small power unit and small spreader, make it work.
Orange coupling to the tool!
You cannot find your partner inside a burning building.
What is MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY?
You arrive on scene with multiple trapped parties. Before setting up for extrication you ask the medic...
Which patient is priority?
The ratio of the mass of a given volume of liquid compared with the mass of an equal volume of water at the same temperature.
What is Specific Gravity?
On scene with 416 and 419, you need to run the air ratchet.
What is in officer's side front roll-up, shelf above the roll-out, small tool bag? Same compartment, top shelf short air hose. Officer's side rear roll-up, top shelf, tool-air bottle with regulator.
Tie a bowline in structure gloves.
Don't forget a safety!
The three priorities of the fire service.
What are life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation?
Using the spreader on the latch side. The door begins to separate into two parts at the seam.
What is skinning the door?
The amount of heat transferred per unit area per unit time from or to a surface.
What is Heat Flux?
On scene with 419, you need flagging to mark a cold slide-off.
What's in the officer's seat roof cubbie-hole?
Don a low angle harness while blacked out.
Hurry!
Any 2 wildland watch-out situations
Fire not scouted and sized up
In country, not seen in daylight
Safety zones and escape routes not identified
Unfamiliar with weather and local factors influencing fire behavior
Uninformed regarding strategy, tactics, and hazards
Instructions and assignments are not clear
No communication with your company or supervisor
Constructing line without a safe anchor point
Building fireline downhill with fire below
Attempting a frontal assault on the fire
Unburned fuel between you and the fire
Cannot see the main fire and not in communication with someone who can
On a hillside where rolling material can ignite material below
Weather is getting hotter and drier
Wind increasing or changing direction
Getting frequent spot fires across the fireline
Terrain and fuels make escape to safety zone difficult
Taking a nap near the fireline
5 - 10 - 20
What are airbag clearance guidelines: 5 side, 10 steering wheel, 20 passenger.
HCN
What is Hydrogen Cyanide?
On scene with 415, you need to fill a bladder bag from the engine.
What's in the driver's top compartment, bottom shelf?
Operate a 2-1/2" attack line with a 15/16" smooth bore nozzle as a single firefighter.
What is the Tollund Position?
Pinch the hoseline in your armpit with the nozzle bale at arm's length forward. Crouch low, levering your arm down with the inside of your knee. Plant your feet firmly, and take a forward lean while opening the bale. Keep your hands together to prevent nozzle whip.