TAKE A LOOK AROUND
A rapid search and isolation of a room from the exterior; conducted where there is a credible report of a possible victim.
What is VEIS?
Alarm that sounds when SCBA air supply is low, typically 33 percent.
What is low-pressure alarm or end of life alert?
P-A-R
What is personal accountability report?
20% of the air we breath
What is oxygen?
Work done outside of the IAP – Incident Action Plan
What is Freelancing?
Rapid but thorough search to determine the location of victims; performed either before or during fire suppression operations.
What is a primary search?
Valve on a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) that is used when a regulator malfunctions.
What is a bypass valve?
I-D-L-H
What is immediately dangerous to life and health?
Calibration performed on air monitors being taken into an incident
What is a bump test?
Allows firefighters to see sources of heat through darkness and thick smoke
But cannot "see through" objects
What is a Thermal Imaging Camera?
Slow, thorough search conducted after the fire is under control by personnel who did not conduct the primary search.
What is a secondary search?
Any area that is no longer considered a hostile environment.
What is a Safe Haven?
P-A-S-S
What is Personal Alert Safety System?
L-E-L
U-E-L
What are Upper and Lower Explosive limits?
Often found behind doors or in heavily traveled pathways or bedrooms of home.
What are victims?
Search method in which the team leader remains at a fixed point such as a door, wall, or hoseline while searching team members spread out through a room to complete a search.
What is the oriented-search method?
1. Always know how much air you have left
2. Know your point of no return
3. Inform IC if you must exit the structure
What are the three key principles of air management?
R-I-C
What is Rapid Intervention Crew?
Detector activated in a clean-air environment to ensure a baseline before entering the monitored atmosphere
What is a Fresh Air Calibration?
The hose coupling that leads into the fire (gender)
What is male?
Tactic that employs a dedicated search line to allow a large number of team members to search a large, open space inside a structure.
What is the wide-area search method?
AUDIO
DAILY
DOUBLE
What is an evacuation signal?
L-U-N-A-R
What are Location, Unit, Name, Air and Resources?
A type of tool guaranteed to not spark.
What is intrinsically
safe?
Assessment of a facility or location made before an emergency occurs, in order to prepare for an appropriate emergency response.
What is a preincident surveys ?