Chapter 7: Extinguishers
The means by which all extinguishers expell their contents
What is pressure?
The term for the part of the rope used to form a knot
What is the working end?
The level of technical rescue training where fire fighter know the names and purposes of tools
What is awareness level?
The structural components of this type of building must be made out of noncombustible materials
What is Type II construction?
What is the head?
This class of extinguisher agent does not conduct electricity
What is a class C agent?
The part of the knot used for hoisting
What is the running end
The color tape used to demarcate the hot zone of a tech rescue incident
What is red tape?
The type of construction that utilizes heavy timber
What is type IV construction?
What is the heel?
The three basic components needed for fire
Oxygen, heat, and fuel
The type of knot used to join webbing together
What is a water knot?
An enclosed space not designed for people to occupy
What is a confined space?
The type of construction called ordinary construction
What is type III construction?
The term for natural and human-made features of land?
What is topography?
The type of agent that bromochlorodifluoromethane is
What is halon?
The type of knot that decreases the load bearing capacity of rope the most
What is a bowline knot
The zone in which decon is performed
What is the warm zone?
The amount of stories that type III construction is limited to
What are 4 stories?
The name of the unburned part of a wildland fire area
What is green?
The name of a class K agent's effect on fuel
What is saponification?
The preferred type of rope for life safety
what is kernmantle?
The step of a technical rescue incident in which victims are freed from entrapment
What is disentanglement
The length to which a 100 ft steel beam can elongate to if heated to 1000o F
What is 9 inches?
The name for fuels that lay underneath the surface of the ground?
What are subsurface fuels?