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Fire Behavior
Ground Ladders
Ropes and Knots
Water Supply
100
Transfer of heat through direct contact.
What is conduction?
100
Oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical reaction.
What are the components of the fire tetrahedron?
100
Devices attached to the inside of the beams on the fly sections used to hold the fly section in place after it has been extended.
What is the pawls? (dogs or ladder locks)
100
Used to keep a record of each use and the inspection/maintenance records.
What is a rope logbook?
100
A system that uses a primary water source that sits at a high elevation such as an elevated storage tank.
What is a gravity system?
200
Created from salvage cover placed on the floor to hold small amounts of water
What is a catchall?
200
An explosive ignition that can occur when air is allowed to mix with hot, unburned fire gases.
What is a backdraft?
200
Single ladders equipped with folding hooks on one end.
What is a roof ladder?
200
Used to join two ropes of unequal diameters.
What is becket ben? (sheet bend)
200
The type of water main valve that visually shows whether the gate or valve seat is open or closed.
What is an indicating valve?
300
The pathway of responsibility from the highest level of the department to the lowest
What is the chain of command?
300
The tendency of gases to form into layers according to temperature.
What is thermal layering? (heat stratification or thermal balance)
300
The desired angle of inclination that the ladder should be placed for climbing.
What is 75 degrees?
300

Used by firefighters on the ground to prevent equipment and other tied objects from coming in contact with the structure or other objects.

What is a tag line?

300
The type of hydrant used in climates where freezing weather is expected and water is held below the frost line.
What is a dry barrel hydrant?
400
A self-sustaining chemical reaction yielding energy or products that cause further reactions of the same kind.
What is combustion?
400
Extinguishment of fire through cooling with water.
What is temperature reduction?
400
Place the tip of the ladder just below the windowsill.
Where shouild the ladder be placed to perform a rescue from a window opening?
400
Used only for supporting people.
What is life safety rope?
400
The process of raising water from a static source to supply a pumper.
What is drafting?
500
The most common of the hazardous substances contained in smoke that is a product of combustion.
What is the carbon monoxide?
500
The classification of fires involving energized electrical equipment.
What is a Class C fire?
500
Eight to Ten feet.
What is the height of a residential story?
500
The type of rope with braided covering over the core of load-bearing strands.
What is kernmantle rope?
500
Used as a filter when drafting from a natural source.
What is strainer?