Ground Ladders
Devices attached to the inside of the beams on fly sections; used to hold the fly section in place after it has been extended.
What are the Pawls? (also will accept 'dogs' or ladder locks')
Referred to as sexless couplings and are connected with 1/3 of a turn.
What is a Storz-type coupling?
A rapid, thorough search done to locate victims as soon as possible.
What is a primary search?
Searching for and extinguishing hidden fires.
What is overhaul?
The area where the fire started.
What is the origin?
Single ladders equipped with folding hooks on the end.
What is a roof ladder?
The appliance that has two or three female connections coming into one male discharge, exiting the connection.
What is a Siamese?
Immediately activate the PASS device.
What a firefighter should do when they become trapped or injured.
The process of covering contents with tarps or slowly going through debris after the main fire has been extinguished.
What is salvage or salvaging?
Used with a Halligan type tool, the device useful in pulling all types of lock cylinders.
What is a K-tool? (will also accept R-tool)
The desired angle of inclination that the ladder should be placed for climbing safely.
What is 75 degrees?
A feature on screw thread couplings where the beginning of the thread is cut to provide a positive connection.
What is the Higbee cut?
Providing additional support to key places between a vehicle and the ground to prevent further movement.
What is stabilization or cribbing the vehicle?
The tool most commonly used to open ceilings to check on fire extension.
What is a Pike Pole?
The process of opening the nozzle for a few seconds while it is pointed at the ceiling in a large spray pattern, then closing the nozzle.
What is one type of indirect fire attack?
Place the tip of the ladder just below the windowsill.
Where the ladder should be placed to perform a rescue from a window opening?
Used to stop the flow of water to allow replacement of a burst section of hose.
What is a hose clamp?
3 successive long blasts of the air horn from a fire truck; then repeated.
What is used to signal for everyone to evacuate immediately from a structure or unsafe environment?
Used to drain runoff from the ceiling above and out through windows or doors.
What is a water chute?
The most common of the hazardous substances contained in smoke, that is a product of combustion.
What is carbon monoxide?
Eight to ten feet.
What is the average height of a residential story?
The type of load that is hardest to load for LDH, where it is not flat, but up on it's side.
What is a horseshoe lay?
The pattern of collapse when outer walls remain standing and the floors or roof fail in the middle, leaving voids on both sides of the collapse.
What is a V-shaped collapse?
By looking for discolored walls, feeling for heat and listening for popping sounds.
How does a firefighter detect hidden fires using his/her senses during overhaul?
The classification of fires involving energized electrical equipment.
What is a Class C fire?