Rescue Equipment
A tool used to pry/spread components of a vehicle during an accident to free an occupant.
What are the hydraulic spreaders?
A tool used to open and close a hydrant with built in spanner wrenches.
What is a hydrant wrench?
A common hand tool used for striking and chopping
What is a flat head axe?
A common hose lay meant to be deployed at once and then stretched out once on the ground, folded into layers of 3. It is the attack line of choice for our department.
What is a crosslay/triple lay?
A device used to ventilate a structure from the outside.
What is the positive pressure fan? (PPV)
A ladder used to ease maneuverability and stability of firefighters while on the roof of a structure.
What is a roof ladder?
Double points if you can name what makes this ladder unique!
The component of an scba that connects directly to the mask and further regulates the air pressure.
What is the regulator?
A tool used to break, cut, or shatter glass on a vehicle in an accident.
What is the glass master?
A tool used to tighten and loosen sexless couplings.
What is a Storz Spanner wrench?
A tool with a three separate ends. Can be used for striking, prying, or punching. Typically used in forcible entry.
What is a halligan bar?
A nozzle that is lowered into a chimney to suppress a fire.
What is a chimney snuffer?
A tool used to shut off water to a structure. If it is the right size, it can also be used on hydrants.
What is a water key?
The orientation/direction in which a ladder is meant to be carried.
What is feet first?
An audible device used to alert crews of a downed firefighter.
What is the PASS device?
Double points if you can identify each letter in the acronym!
Tools used to stabilize a car following a motor vehicle accident.
What is cribbing?
The direction the gate valve is to face when dressing a hydrant
What is in the direction of the fire?
A set of small tools used to make entry into a structure. Most commonly through the deadbolt.
What is the K-tool?
A foam nozzle used in conjunction with a booster line to draw air into the stream and aerate the foam.
What is a Mad Dog nozzle?
A manual chain device used to pull or secure an object.
What is a come-a-long
A device used to raise and lower the sections of an extension ladder.
What is a halyard?
A valve on the regulator used as an emergency bypass.
What is the purge valve?
A tool used to push apart components of a vehicle to free an occupant.
What is a hydraulic ram?
Double points if you can name the device used in conjunction with this tool!
An appliance used to deliver water to an apparatus from two different suppliers. This device has two female inlets and one sexless outlet with a valve that operates depending on the pressure of the supplier.
What is Siamese clapper?
A pulling tool used to pull drywall within a structure.
What is a drywall hook?
A stream of water from a nozzle that is uninterrupted and unbroken.
Double points if you can name another type of stream!
What is a solid stream?
A device used to siphon foam from a bucket and inject it into a hose line.
What is a foam eductor?
Small devices used to secure the sections of an extension ladder.
What are dogs/pawls?
What is 4000 psi?
A flexible backboard used to remove patients from areas of difficult terrain. This device is often used with pulleys.
What is a SKED?
An appliance used to break a larger hose line into multiple smaller lines. This device has one female inlet with multiple male outlets.
What is a water thief?
A tool with a chopping and rake end used during brush fires.
What is a McLeod Rake?
A nozzle used mostly for exposure control, projects a flat sheet of water in front of the area that needs to be controlled.
What is a curtain nozzle?
An event that occurs when valves are opened or closed too quickly.
What is water hammer?
The proper angle a ladder should be set to when thrown against a structure.
What is 75 degrees?
An acronym used in the event of a firefighter down (MAYDAY) situation in a fire. It is used to indicate crucial information to crews on scene.
What is LUNAR?
Double points if you can identify each letter in the acronym!