Safety & Health
Portable Fire Extinguishers
Ropes, Webbing & Knots
Water Supply
Fire Stream
100
This program offers confidential assistance to employees with problems that could adversely affect job performance.
What is Employee Assistance Program
100
This type of portable fire extinguisher is useful in suppressing vapors from small liquid fuel fires
What is AFFF or Aqueous Film Forming Foam
100
Which knot is always combined with another knot or hitch
What is half-hitch knot
100
This occurs when a hydrant is closed too fast
What is Water Hammer
100
This type of nozzle is driven into place with a mallet, sledge hammer or flathead axe
What is Piercing Nozzle
200
This is a fundamental rule to help minimize risk during emergency scene operations.
What is maintain communications with team and Command
200
This agent combines with oils to create a soapy foam surface
What is Wet Chemical Stored-Pressure
200
This type of rope is used for any situation not involving life safety
What is Utility Rope
200
This is what the internal workings of the most hydrants are made of
What is Bronze
200
This type of nozzle creates a straight stream
What is fog nozzle
300
The goal of these standard assists members who have been in highly stressful events
What is NFPA 1500
300
This extinguishing method works by reducing burning materials below ignition temperature
What is Cooling
300
This type of webbing construction is typically more difficult to tie into a knot
What is Flat Webbing
300
This mean of moving water is found at many industrial facilites
What is Combination System
300
This standard establishes fire nozzle categories
What is NFPA 1963
400
This standard establishes safety programs that departments must adopt
What is NFPA 1582
400
This extinguishing method works by forming an oxygen-excluding soapy foam surface
What is Saponification
400
This is an advantage of natural fiber rope
What is does not melt
400
This type of hydrant receives water from more than one direction
What is Circulating Hydrant
400
This fire stream has the ability to reach areas other streams might not reach
What is Solid Stream
500
This standard requires that protective equipment meet current NFPA design standards
What is NFPA 1500
500
This portable fire extinguisher has agents mixed with small amounts of additives
What is Dry Chemical
500
This type of construction is used for life safety rope
What is Kernmantle
500
These devices have capacities beginning at 1000 gallons which are used for water shuttle operations
What are portable tanks or drop tanks
500
This expands 1,700 as it is vaporized
What is Water
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