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Fire Behavior
Ground Ladders
Forcible Entry
Rescue
100
Transfer of heat through direct contact.
What is conduction?
100
Oxygen, heat, fuel and a self sustained chemical chain reaction.
What is the fire tetrahedron?
100
Single ladders equipped with folding hooks on one end.
What is a roof ladder?
100
A manual tool that takes two to four firefighters to breach a brick or concrete wall.
What is a battering ram?
100
A rapid, thorough search done to locate victims as soon as possible.
What is a primary search?
200
Created from a salvage cover placed on a floor to hold small amounts of water.
What is a catchall?
200
The classification of fires involving energized electrical equipment.
What is a Class C Fire?
200
The desired angle of inclination that the ladder should be placed for climbing.
What is 75 degrees?
200
Process used to force open a sectional overhead door.
What is pry upward from the bottom of the door?
200
Immediately activate the PASS device.
What is what should a firefighter do when they become trapped or injured?
300
The pathway of responsibility from the highest level of the department to the lowest.
What is chain of command?
300
The tendency of gases to from into layers according to temperature.
What is thermal layering? Also accept heat stratification or thermal balance.
300
Place the tip of the ladder just below the windowsill.
What is where should a ladder be placed to perform a rescue from a window opening?
300
Get a forcible entry tool into the space between the door and door jamb, open the space and allow the lock bolt to slip form its keeper.
What is how do you open a swinging door?
300
Providing additional support to key places between a vehicle and the ground to prevent further movement.
What is stabilization?
400
A self-sustaining chemical reaction yielding energy or products that cause further reactions of the same kind.
What is combustion?
400
An explosive ignition that can occur when air is allowed to mix with hot, unburned fire gases.
What is a backdraft?
400
Eight to ten feet.
What is the height of a residential story?
400
Used with a halligan type tool, the device useful in pulling all types of lock cylinders.
What is a K-tool?
400
Using a spring-loaded punch or striking with a sharp point at the lower corner.
What is how do you remove tempered glass form side and rear windows?
500
Window hinged on one side, usually designed to swing outward, with the screen on the inside.
What is a casement window?
500
Extinguishment of fire through cooling with water.
What is temperature reduction?
500
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 is the pawls? Also accept dogs or ladder locks
500
Use wire cutters and cut close to the posts.
What is how do you gain entry through a wire fence?
500
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 V-shaped collapse?