EMS
_____ ___ refers to basic immediate care for injured individuals before paramedics arrive.
What is First Aid?
What does SCBA stand for?
What is Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus?
What are the three layers that makeup turnout gear?
What is thermal liner, moisture barrier, and outer shell?
What are the three factors that make up the fire triangle?
What is heat, fuel, and oxygen?
Why is it important to put your pack on before your helmet?
What is ensuring you don't pull your neck backwards?
You arrive to a scene. Your patient is slurring their words and can't recognize basic items. They are likely suffering a _____.
What is a Stroke?
What does VEIS stand for?
What is Vent, enter, isolate, search?
What story can a 24 ft. ladder reach?
Fires including which materials would be better suppressed using foam instead of water?
What is flammable liquids (gas and oil) and electrical fires?
You arrive at the scene of someone having a seizure. Their body is tensed up and they are not alert or aware. What are some things you are paying most attention to doing/not doing?
What is:
- protecting their head
- turning them on their side
- ensure scene safety for the patient
- maintain an airway and assess alertness (after seizure)
What is the scale for assessing consciousness?
What is AVPU (Alert, Voice, Pain, Unresponsive)?
What does ARFF stand for?
What is Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting?
What are the three hydraulic tools used for extrication?
What are the spreaders, cutters, and ram?
You arrive on the scene of a house fire. You're tasked with getting a rough location of the fire during a 360-walk-around. What is the biggest thing you should be paying attention to?
Where is the origin of smoke?
Commonly used in the fire service and other blue collar jobs to decorate PPE
What are stickers?
How deep should your CPR go on a baby?
What is about 1.5 inches?
What does MVC stand for?
What is Motor Vehicle Collision?
What does PASS stand for (as in PASS alarm)?
What is Personal Alert Safety System?
What is the difference between back-draft and flash-over?
What is flash-over is a temperature-driven when all combustible materials in a room ignite due to radiant heat and back-draft is an air-driven event where oxygen is suddenly introduced to a fire that has a lot of fuel and heat and causes an explosion?
Not necessarily pertaining to firefighting, a small metal instrument that is played by lightly tapping another rod on it to let out a light ding.
What is a Triangle?
Used to quickly determine how much of a victim's body is burned; Adult limbs have lesser values in this rule than pediatric and baby limbs do.
What is the rule of 9s? (Arms=9, legs=18, torso=18(one side), head=9, genitalia=1)
What does LODD stand for?
What is Line of Duty Death?
Used to open locked car doors and is commonly accompanied by a small air bag
What is a Slim Jim?
What is crowning and how does it start?
What is fire on the tops of trees that starts when embers/fires are carried by strong winds?
A skill commonly practiced at Clown College but also mastered by our very own Owen Winter
What is Juggling?