Health and Safety
Bunker coat, pants, Nomex hood, helment, gloves, boots and SCBA.
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
What is cutting, prying, pushing/pulling and striking?
What are the 4 basic categories for forcible entry tools?
Boiling liquid, expanding-vapor explosion.
What is a BLEVE?
An obsolete term for resistance to fire; inappropriate because all materials except water will burn.
What is 'fireproof'?
60 seconds or less, all PPE, safety checks completed.
What is donning your SCBA
All firefighters trained to Level 1 under NFPA must also know about this NFPA standard that focuses on health and safety.
What is NFPA 1500?
Sharp prong and hook of steel on a wood, metal, fiberglass or plastic handle of varying length used for pulling, dragging and probing.
What is a Pike Pole?
A 4' x 4' rectangular cut
What is the most common size hold to cut in a roof?
AHJ
What is Authority Having Jurisdiction?
Able to reset and reactivate into alert mode using each hand in a variety of body positions.
What is activate/reset your PASS device?
A place where personnel can rest, re-hydrate and recover from the stresses of the incident.
What is a REHAB station?
A prying tool with a claw at one end and a spike or point at a right angle to a wedge at the other end.
What is a Halligan tool?
What is the expansion of excess moisture within masonry materials due to exposure to the heat of fire.
What is spalling?
A standardized approach to incident management that facilitates interaction between cooperating agencies.
What is the Incident Command System?
Follow the long lug out
What is a means of exiting to safety, to egress by way of using the fire hose?
A structure where there is an absence of usable doors and windows of sufficient size and number to provide prompt ventilation and emergency evacuation.
What is an enclosed structure?
What are the techniques used by fire personnel to gain entry into buildings, vehicles or other areas of confinement when normal means of entry are locked or blocked.
What is forcible entry?
Identify possible ____________ escape paths should your primary one be compromised.
What is 'secondary'?
The very first thing you should do when you arrive on-scene.
Dragger device
A loop standard on every bunker coat; used by RIT team for getting someone out by way of dragging.
US Firefighter LODD's continue to increase despite national efforts starting in 2004 with the introduction of the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives developed at the __________________.
What is the Firefighter Life Safety Summit?
The act of creating a hole in a wall or floor to gain access to a structure or portion of a structure.
What is breaching?
Pitched, flat, arched
What are common roof types?
What are:
CPR
First Responder or EMT
NIMS/ICS (100 and 700)
Firefighting/Fire Science
Basic survival knot used for rescue. Ability to tie in-line, end of line or by using multiple ropes.
What is the 'Handcuff' knot?