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To save lives and to protect property and the environment from fires and other hazardous situations.
What is the mission of the fire service?
This noninvasive device clips onto a finger to measure a patient’s oxygen saturation and pulse rate.
What is a Pulse Oximeter?
This hose load allows one firefighter to quickly deploy a preconnected attack line from the shoulder
What is a Minuteman?
This potential fire covers 600,000 square feet of mostly combustible materials, with the most volatile being kept in "the boom room"
What is Home Hardware?
This tool, typically used for forced entry, features a forked end and an adze end, and still bears the name of the FDNY Deputy Chief that designed it.
What is a Halligan?
This is the method used for identifying which emergency responders are working on an incident scene.
What is the Personal Accountability System?
These foam supports, kept in a light blue bag, are placed on either side of a patient’s head to help maintain spinal alignment and prevent movement during immobilization, and are often paired with a backboard.
What are Head Blocks?
This occurs when a nozzle or valve is shut too quickly with no relief valve set.
What is Water Hammer?
This triangular shaped piece of land contains two large combustible storage containers.
What is Debert Airport?
This tool is the size of a drill, and is used for the rapid removal of laminated glass
This attack method uses an exterior attack through a ventilation opening to transition the fire from ventilation-limited to fuel-limited, reducing the potential for flashover and creating a more survivable interior environment.
What is a Transitional Attack?
This airway adjunct is inserted into the mouth to prevent the tongue from obstructing the airway in an unconscious patient.
What is an Oropharyngeal Airway?
This piece of equipment is made up of two separate pieces and when assembled, flows in a sprinkler style pattern.
Bonus: Where are the two parts of this stored?
What is the Attic Nozzle?
This Liquid and Special Waste facility, having changed ownership several times in the last decade, is located on the eastern end of our district
What is Green For Life?
This tool was originally introduced in World War 2 for rapid breaching and rescue on aircraft, but is now also used for Motor Vehicle Accidents.
What is a Crash Axe?
This single cut is the width of the saw blade made in the roof to check for fire extension.
What is a Kerf Cut?
This condition can mimic intoxication or heat stress, yet is rapidly reversed with a simple carbohydrate.
What is Hypoglycemia?
This device is used to make any hose line a foam line
What is a Foam Eductor?
This subdivision off Gray Road is made up of numerous multi-family dwellings
What is Livia Meadows?
This device is used in roof operations by attaching to the rungs of a roof ladder to provide extra footing for members on the roof.
What is the Surefoot?
This phenomenon of a strong air draft moving from ground level to the roof level of a building, and is affected by building height, configuration, and temperature differences between inside and outside air.
What is Chimney/Stack Effect?
In an unresponsive patient, the absence of any response to this intervention can be as clinically informative as its success.
What is naloxone?
This hose load was originally used for wildland hose, but has been adapted for use in structural firefighting, often used for advancing up long driveways, deploying in a coil like garden hose.
What is a Metro Pack/Gnass Pack?
This apartment complex with a 12-unit building, is made up of of a wood frame construction, has a flat roof with a gabled roof attached, and a narrow single entrance to the property with minimal room for maneuvering our apparatus.
What are the Masstown Road Apartments?
This device allows smaller amounts of water to be diverted from a larger diameter hose without interrupting the main flow of water.
What is a Water Thief?