Vehicle Rescue
Ensuring that a vehicle or a structural member will not move.
What is stablilizing?
Vent Master Saw is found in this compartment.
What is the first compartment on the officer side of 909?
main structure member of a ladder supporting the rungs or rung blocks
What is beam?
To operate independently of the incident commander's command and control.
What is Freelance?
PASS is the acronym for
What is Personal Alert Safety System.
Exposing components such as safety restraint systems, pyrotechnic seat belt pretensioners.
What is peel and peak or peel and reveal?
To create a defensible line ahead of the fire's spread.
What is trench cut?
The upper section. the section that moves.
What is fly section?
internationally recognized distress signal.
what is MAYDAY?
fabric interface between a sleeve's end and a firefighters palm.
What is wristlets?
This metal can be found in valve covers, steering columns, mounting brackets, transmission casing, exterior body components.
What is magnessium?
Method of ventilating a room or structure by mechanically blowing fresh air through an inlet opening into the space in sufficient volume to create a slight positive pressure within and thereby forcing the contaminated atmosphere out the exit opening.
What is Positive-Pressure Ventilation (PPV)?
Rope used on extension ladders to extended the fly section.
What is halyard?
preformed either before or during fire suppression operations.
What is primary search?
This shows vital equipment information on the inside of the facepiece.
What is the heads up display?
Designed primarily for pushing.
What is extension ram?
What is downwind side?
The proper climbing angle?
What is 75 degrees
Location of the Rit bag.
What is under frontward facing rear seats and side compartment of 909?
This type of fire resistant cover protects firefighter from radiant and convected heat.
What is fire shelter?
You will continue to cut until you hear this.
What is the beeping of the cutters?
Ventilation accomplished by using a spray stream to draw the smoke from a compartment through an exterior opening.
What is hydraulic ventilation?
visual looking and verbalizing before placement of the ladder.
What is clear of overhead obstructions?
This is always used differently than a primary search.
What is fresh eyes?
NFPA 1500 requires hearing protection at this decibel while riding in an apparatus.
What is 90 decibels in the U.S., 85 in Canada?