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Transfer of heat through direct contact.
What is Conduction?
Oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical reaction.
What is the fire tetrahedron?
Devices attached to the inside of the beams used to hold the fly section into place after it has been extended.
What are the pawls(dogs, or ladder locks)?
This is the most important rule of forcible entry.
What is try before you pry?
This is a channeled pathway for smoke ventilation via vertical openings.
What is vertical ventilation?
Created from a salvage cover placed on the floor to hold small amounts of water.
What is a Catchall?
An explosive ignition that can occur when air is allowed to mix with hot, unburned fire gases.
What is backdraft?
Single ladder equipped with folding hooks on one end.
What is a roof ladder?
This group of tools includes the flat head axe, maul, and sledgehammer.
What are striking tools?
The process of discharging a fog nozzle out a window or other opening in order to remove smoke or heat from a space.
The pathway of responsibility from the lowest level of the department to the highest.
What is the Chain of Command?
The tendency of gases to form into layers according to temperature.
What is thermal layering(thermal balance)?
The desired angle that the ladder should be placed for climbing.
What is 75 degrees?
This type of glass is treated to increase its strength.
What is tempered glass?
This is the cut made to determine roof covering and depth, sheeting material, rafter direction, and conditions.
What is an inspection hole or cut?
The most common hazardous substance contained in smoke, that is a product of combustion.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
Extinguishment of fire through cooling.
What is temperature reduction?
Place the tips of the ladder just below the windowsill.
Where should a ladder be placed for a window rescue?
The process of removing the key cylinder and operating the mechanism by alternative means.
What is the "through the lock" method?
The main advantage to this cut that gases and flame spread are not allowed past a chosen line.
What is a trench cut?
High temperature exothermic chemical reaction between fuel and an oxidant.
What is Combustion?
The classification of fires involving energized electrical equipment.
What is a class C fire
Eight to ten feet
What is the height of a residential story?
Halligan married to a flathead axe
what are the irons?
Contraindications for this type of ventilation include; unknown fire location, inability to provide proper exhaust point.
What is PPV ( positive Pressure Ventiliation?