Fire Behavior
What components make up the fire tetrahedron
What is heat, fuel, oxygen, chemical chain reaction
The organization formed in 1896 to develop concensus-based codes intended to ensure fire and life safety.
What is the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
A principal pipe in a system of pipes for distributing water, especially one installed underground.
What is a Water Main.
The main structural member of a ladder supporting the rungs or rung blocks.
What is the Beam.
How many square miles is Island Lake Fire
Approximately 9 square miles
The transfer of heat through or between solids that are in direct contact.
What is Conduction.
The standardized system to incident management that facilitates interaction between cooperating agencies.
What is Incident Command System (ICS).
The material used to make most internal workings of fire hydrants.
What is Bronze.
The position in which an extension ladder has the fly section(s) fully retracted.
What is the Bedded Position.
How many gallons of water is carried on our apparatus combined
What is 4500 gallons
The energy possessed by a body because of its motion.
What is Kinetic Energy.
Who is the patron saint of firefighting
Who is Saint Florian
What task is completed when using two engines connected with hard suction to boost pump pressures
What is tandem pumping
A safety feature required on metal and fiberglass ladders to assess thermal exposure.
What are Heat Sensor Labels.
How many feet of 1.75" hose is on E111
What is 600 ft
The physical process that changes a liquid into a gaseous state at a temperature above the liquids boiling point.
What is Vaporization.
The principle that means each employee reports directly to just one supervisor.
What is Unity of Command.
The task of positioning fire apparatus at specific intervals to continuously supply water to a scene
What is relay pumping
The task being performed when a ladder is positioned in alignment with a window, with the tip of the ladder just below the windowsill.
What is Rescue Operations
The number of individuals who have held the position of Chief at Island Lake Fire.
What is 6.
(Chuck Brotche, Gary Volk, Jerry Swartos, KC Whitehouse, Bruce Selleg, Brandon Searles)
The mass of a substance compared to the mass of an equal volume of water at a given temperature.
What is Specific Gravity.
The historic fire that resulted in NFPA changes to fire sprinkler and crowd management requirements in assembly occupancies.
What is the Station Nightclub Fire, Rhode Island (2003).
What is the maximum lift T111 can obtain for drafting through hard suction
What is 20-25 ft
The carry being performed when two firefighters hold a ladder on their shoulders on the top beam, and gripping the rungs in front of them.
What is a Two-Firefighter low shoulder carry.
What was the inception year of the Firefighters Association
What is 1975