Building Constr.
What is type II Construction
What is Combustibles
The process of gathering and analyzing information to help fire officers make decisions regarding the deployment of resources and tactics
What is size-up?
A tool that has a head with an Axe on one side and flat on the other
What is a flat head Axe?
The movement of heat and smoke from the higher pressure within the fire towards the lower pressure areas accessible via doors, windows, or roof structures
What is flow paths?
Crime of willfully, maliciously, and intentionally starting an incendiary fire or causing an explosion to destroy one's property or the property of another. Precise legal definitions vary among jurisdictions, wherein it is defined by statutes and judicial decisions
What is Arson?
What is type IV construction
What is Heavy Timber
Name 3 types of ventilation
What is intentional, mechanical, Hydraulic, unintentional, vertical, horizontal
Cutting tools that have a wide cutting blade that can be used to chop into a wall, roof, or door
What is an Axe?
Firefighting operations involving the application of extinguishing agents directly onto the burning fuel
What is Direct attack?
Respirator that removes contaminants by passing ambient air through a filter, cartridge, or canister; may have a full or partial face piece
What is an Air purifying respirator (APR)
What is the area of origin when the fire is in the structure?
What is fire compartment?
What is the removal/opening of windows or doors on any floor of a fire building to create flow paths for fire conditions?
A hand tool with an open end wrench on one end and a box-end wrench on the other
What is a combination wrench?
Fire burning below the surface
What is a Deep-seated fire?
Arrangement of fire hose in a hose bed or compartment in a which the hose lies on edge with the folds adjacent to each other
What is an Accordian Load
A truss that is curved on the top and straight on the bottom
What is a Bowstring Truss
What is ventilation that relies on the movement of air caused by a fog stream in front of an open window?
What is Hydraulic Ventilation
Techniques used to gain entry into buildings, vehicles, aircraft, or other areas of confinement when normal means of entry is blocked
What is Forcible entry?
Vehicles that you anything other than a petroleum based motor fuel to propel a motorized vehicle
What is an alternative-fuel vehicle
Synthetic foam concentrate that, when combined with water, can form a complete vapor barrier over fuel spills and fires and is a highly effective extinguishing and blanketing agents on hydrocarbon fuels
What is aqueous film forming foam (AFFF)?
A load imposed quickly on a structure
What is an Impact Load?
The condition that exists when the air pressure in one area is higher than the atmospheric pressure in another area
What is positive pressure?
One set or pair of connection devices attached to a fire hose that allow the hose to be interconnected to additional lengths of hose or adapters and other firefighting appliances
What is a coupling?
Vehicle that uses both a battery-powered electric motor and a liquid fuel engine
What is a hybrid-electric vehicle?
Fatal condition causes by severe oxygen deficiency and an excess of carbon monoxide and/or other gases in the blood
What is Asphyxiation?