An officer can effectively supervise three (3) to seven (7) firefighters.
What is Span of Control
100
NFPA 1001
What is Standard for Firefighter Professional Qualifications
100
What is the force exerted on the bottom chord of a truss called?
What is Tension
100
What is a PAR?
What is Personal Accountability Report, systematic way of confirming the status of any unit operating at an incident.
100
What class of fire has yellow star?
What is Class D-combustible metals
200
The mission of the fire service is to practice what?
What is Life Safety, Incident Stabilization, and Property Conservation
200
What is the difference of Exothermic and Endothermic heat reaction?
What is
Exothermic: chemical reaction between two or more materials that changes the materials and produces heat, flames, and toxic smoke.
Endothermic: Chemical reaction in which a substance absorbs that energy.
200
At which temperature can a steel joist fail?
What is 1000 degrees
200
What type of rope is used as a rescue rope?
What is Kernmantle
200
What are the different classes of fire?
What is
Class A-ordinary
Class B-flammable liquids
Class C-electrical
Class D-Combustible metals
Class K-Kitchen
300
NFPA 1500
What is Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program
300
Which is the transfer of heat energy from one body to another through direct contact or an intervening medium from the point where the heat is produced to another location or from a region of high temperature to a region of low temperature?
What is Conduction
300
What is an inorganic product from which plaster and wallboards are constructed?
What is Gypsum
300
What is the Working End of the rope?
What is the part that forms the knot
300
What extinguisher is suitable for use on Class A and Class B fires and are particularly useful in combating fires in or suppressing vapors from small liquid fuel spills?
What is Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF)
400
What is the measurements of a collapse zone?
What is 1 1/2 X Structural height
400
At which temperature can pyrolysis begin?
What is below 400 degrees
400
Name the 5 types of Building Construction
What is Fire Resistive, Noncombustible, Ordinary, Heavy Timber, and Wood
400
What NFPA is the Standard on Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services?
What is NFPA 1983
400
What is the method used for the application of using a portable extinguisher?
What is PASS, Pull pin, aim the nozzle, squeeze handles together, and sweap the nozzle back and forth
500
Every how many years should a cylinder be hydrotested?
What is 5 years
500
Which occurrences can occur during the Growth Stage?
What is Thermal layering, Isolated flames, Rollover/Flameover, and Flashover
500
What is a Partition wall?
What is non-load bearing wall that divides two areas within a structure.
500
When should ropes be inspected?
What is after each use. Unused ropes should be inspected at least annually.
500
What is the term for a substance or mixture composed of two or more metals fused together and dissolved into each other to enhance the properties or usefulness of the base metal?