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Step 1: Identify Hazards
Step 2: Assess Hazards
Step 3: Develop Controls and Make Risk Decisions
Step 4: Implement Controls
Step 5: Supervise and Evaluate
What is the Risk Management Process?
page 1
Low RH, Unstable air, Strong surface wind, and Drought
What are the four critical weather elements?
page 40
The blue color in the fire triangle represents ...
What is Health Hazard?
page 56
Always approach/depart from THIS side as directed by pilot/helitack personnel.
What is the downslope (lower) side?
page 63
These are three examples of PPE to use if contact with body fluids is possible.
What are pocket mask, waterproof gloves, goggles?
page 107
LCES stands for ...
What are Lookouts, Communications, Escape routes, Safety zones?
page 5
These can hold heat, funnel winds, and support rapid increase in fire activity when inversion breaks.
What are Box and Narrow Canyons?
page 35
The yellow color in the fire triangle stands for ...
What is Instability?
page 56
You should never approach THIS section of the helicopter.
What is the tail section?
page 63
These are the 8 steps for CPR.
1. Scene safety
2. Determine responsiveness
3. Call for help
4. Chest compressions
5. Airway (tilt head & lift chin)
6. Breathing (mouth-to-mouth)
7. Continue CPR (30 compressions & 2 breaths)
8. AED
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Since listed calculations assume no wind and no slope, safety zones ____ or ____ from the fire will require larger separation distances.
What is downwind or upslope?
page 6
This area of mountainous slope can keep wildfires active throughout the night due to its high average temperature and low average RH.
What are thermal belts?
page 35
COR means ...
What is the Corrosive abbreviation?
page 56
Emergency seating positions or cues in an aircraft/helicopter for a forward-facing seat.
1. lower torso firmly against the seat back
2. lower chin to chest. grip seat edge or place hands under your legs.
3. DO NOT grasp the restraint harness
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These 3 actions are specific treatments for if someone is bleeding.
What is direct pressure, elevate, and tourniquet (if the first two fail to control blood loss)?
page 110
Use direct attack whenever possible for THIS type of fireline construction. If not possible, the fireline should be completed between anchor points before being fired out.
What is Downhill Fireline Construction?
page 7
Cured or curing grasses and leaves, continuous loads of dead fine fuels, heavy dead and down fuel loads, tight crown spacing (<20'), tall (deep) grass and shrub fuel beds, and unusually low dead and live fuel moisture estimates
What are Fire Environment Factor: Fuel Characteristics Indicators?
page 36
ALK stands for ...
What is the abbreviation for alkali?
page 56
You make a circular motion above head with your arm to indicate this.
What is 'clear to start'?
page 70
Do these 4 things if someone has an eye injury.
1. wash out foreign material
2. don't open swollen eye
3. bandage impaled objects in place
4 bandage both eyes if possible
page 110
THIS is inherently dangerous because it involves indirect firefighting near structures.
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
page 11
These are warming and drying winds blowing from high elevation downslope, often toward values at risk; 20-60 mph, can exceed 90 mph.
What are Foehn Winds (Chinook, Santa Ana, Mono, Wasatch, East, and North Winds)?
page 41
BLEVE stands for ... and the BLEVE potential = 2,500' (one-half mile)
What is Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion?
page 55
You open arms outward and close arms inward to indicate this.
What is 'fixed tank doors'?
page 70
These 3 are signs of a burned airway.
What are:
1. singed facial/nasal hairs,
2. soot or burns around/in nose or mouth,
3. and black sooty sputum.
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