Tools
The tool most commonly used to open ceilings to check on fire extension.
What is a pike pole?
When hose is laid from the water source to the fire.
What is a forward lay?
Referred to as sexless couplings and are connected with one-third of a turn.
What is a Storz-type coupling?
SDS stands for.
What is Safety Data Sheet?
City location of the first formed fire department in the USA.
What is Philadelphia?
Used with a halligan type tool, the device useful in pulling all types of lock cylinders.
What is a K-tool?
Occurs when the flow of water in a hose line is stopped suddenly resulting in a water surge.
What is a water hammer?
Used to stop the flow of water to allow replacement of a burst section of hose.
What is a hose clamp?
The type of water main valve that visually shows whether the gate or valve seat is open or closed.
What is an indicating valve?
City location of the first fully paid fire department.
What is Cincinnati?
What is the device used to connect multiple hoses to a single water source?
Manifold or wye.
The type of stream resulting from the use of a smoothbore nozzle.
What is a solid stream?
The appliance that has two or three female connections coming into one male discharge exiting the connection.
What is a Siamese?
3 types of fire attack modes.
What is offensive, defensive, and transitional?
February 20, 2003, Great White concert, 100 people died.
What is the Station Nightclub Fire?
Which tool is used to detect hidden heat sources during overhaul?
What is a Thermal Imaging Camera (TIC).
The most common type of foam proportioner that can be connected at any point in the hose lay.
What is an in-line foam eductor.
The type of load that is easiest to load for large diameter hose and allows the folds to lie flat rather than on their side.
What is the flat load?
What is NFPA 1971?
Deadliest fire in US history.
What is 9/11 World Trade Center?
specially designed to use positive airflow to remove heat, smoke and products of combustion from a structure on a fire scene
What is a positive pressure ventilation fan?
Used to achieve maximum water surface for heat absorption and is composed of very fine water droplets.
What is a fog stream?
A feature on screw thread couplings where the beginning of the thread is cut to provide a positive connection.
What is the Higbee cut?
What is the NFPA standard for HazMat response?
What is NFPA 472?
The year was 1871 and this fire burned more than 1.2 million acres and killed over 1,200 people.
What is the Peshtigo Fire?