Medical Terms
A patient able to walk
Ambulatory
The longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Typewriter
You would produce enough gas to create an atomic bomb's energy if you pass gas consistently for this amount of time.
The first volunteer Fire Company was formed in Philadelphia by this man in 1736.
Benjamin Franklin
The President who signed Executive Order 12127, establishing FEMA.
The large artery that carries oxygenated blood from the heart to be distributed to the body.
Aorta
The most common name in the world.
Mohammed
A hurricane releases more energy in this amount of time than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Ten minutes.
The number one killer of firefighters.
Heart attacks.
The year of the first Federal Government involvement with local disaster.
1803. Congressional act passed to provide financial aid to Portsmouth, NH after a devasting fire.
Microscopic blood vessel that connects an artery to a vein.
Capillary
Tittle
The average number of people who choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
100
Kitchen.
The year the first 9-1-1 call made.
1968. Senator Rankin Fite completed the first 911 call in Haleyville, Alabama on February 16, 1968.
Blue or purple discoloration of the skin due to inadequate oxygen in the blood.
Cyanosis
The prisoners in the New Hampshire State Penitentiary in Concord NH make license plates with this slogan.
Live free or die.
The only food that does not spoil.
Honey
The city with the first paid Fire Department in the United States.
Boston MA.
The name of the turtle featured in Civil Defense Duck and Cover training.
Bert the Turtle.
Swelling caused by the accumulation of fluid
Edema
The only animal that can fly backward.
Hummingbirds.
The life work of 12 bees represents this amount of honey.
One teaspoon.
The only country in the world where all Firefighters are volunteers.
Chile
Developed in the 1970's by an interagency group in Southern California called FIRESCOPE.
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