CRR
CRR
Community Risk Reduction
NFPA
National Fire Protection Association
4 main components of cultural competence
Awareness, attitude, knowledge, skills
What is the basic procedure for reporting an emergency?
Know when and how to call 9-1-1 or other emergency #. Relay information to the dispatcher (name, address, phone number, nature of the injury)
Why is it important to use standardized FLSE messages?
All individuals and agencies conveying the same message.
Responds to flaming fires faster than smoldering fires
Ionization alarms
Components of a fire triangle?
Heat, oxygen, fuel
Second leading cause of injury for children ages 1-14
Drowning
5 E's
Education, Economic Incentives, Emergency Response, Enforcement, Engineering
United States Fire Administration
Examples of a CRR & integrated prevention intervention
What are some common types of basic firefighting equipment?
Why should FLSE know the dynamics of fire and behavior?
So you can speak confidently on the subject and help the audience to make sense of FLSE actions to drive behavior change.
The most common type of portable fire extinguisher for use by consumers
A, B, C
Products of combustion
Leading cause of nonfatal injury for all age groups.
Falls -- children and older adults at greatest risk.
Name some current fire and life safety issues
pg 11
PPE
Personal Protection Equipment
The pathway of responsibility from the highest to the lowest level of the organization is
Chain of command
What are some common fire protection systems and devices?
What are common dynamics of human behavior?
Responds faster to smoldering fires
Photoelectric
Reducing agent (fuel), oxidizing agent, heat, chemical reaction
Fire Tetrahedron
3 legs of the injury triangle
Host, agent, environment
Fire prevention and life safety reduce what?
Loss of life, injury, property damage, and environmental damage
SCBA
Self-contained breathing apparatus
Each individual reports to one supervisor
Unity of command
What are some common fire hazards?
Prevalent in wildland areas and indoors and encourages a fire to start.
What are some common unintentional injuries?
Poisoning, falls, fire, MVC, drowning
K
4 stages of fire
Incipient, growth, full developed, decay
3 types of burns (by type)
Chemical, electrical, and light or radiation
What is Cultural Competence?
Understanding the demographics of the community
A, B, C, D, K
Common roles in the Prevention Division include
Fire prevention, investigators, FLSE, engineers, examiners
Superficial, partial thickness, full thickness
Types of burns (pg 41)
What are 3 types of common disasters (by type)?
Natural, human and technological
Fire extinguisher used for metals
D
4 types of fire hazards
Common, personal, special, target (pg 24)
Haddon's Matrix
Pre-event factors, event factors, post-event factors or conditions