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Ropes, Webbing, Knots
Tactical Ventilation
Water Supply
Hoses
Building Construction
100

The oldest and most common tool used by firefighters

What is rope

100

Techniques that use wind, convection currents and other natural phenomena to ventilate a structure without the use of fans, blowers and smoke ejectors.

What is natural ventilation.

100
A hydrant that receives water from only one direction
What is a dead-end hydrant
100

Male or female coupling with spiral thread

What is a threaded coupling

100

Concealed space between the top floor and the roof of a structure

What is a cockloft

200

This type of rope includes polyester, nylon, Polysteel and Kevlar

What is synthetic fiber rope

200
Warning signs of possible unsafe roof conditions
What is melting asphalt, spongy roof, smoke or fire coming from the roof
200
Floating strainers can draft water from sources as shallow as
What is 24 inches
200

Special cut at the beginning of the thread on a hose coupling that provides positive identification of the first thread to eliminate cross-threading

What is a Higbee cut

200

Weight of the structure, structural members, building components, and any other features attached to the building that are constant and immobile.

What is dead load

300
Uniformly intertwined strands of rope together in a diagonally overlapping pattern
What is braided rope
300

Ventilation accomplished by using a spray stream to draw the smoke from a compartment through an exterior opening.

What is hydraulic ventilation

300
Hydrants that are designed to have water inside them at all times
What is wet-barrel hydrant
300

Small tool primarily used to tighten or loosen hose couplings; can also be used as a pry tool or a gas key

What is a spanner wrench 

300
Typically involves stored materials, debris, trash, and rubbish
What is an exterior fire
400
This part of the rope is made by crossing the side of the bight over the standing part
What is the loop
400

The protected side; the direction opposite from which the wind is blowing

What is the leeward side

400

Method of water supply by which mobile water supply apparatus continuously transports water between a fill site and the dump site located near the emergency scene.

What is water shuttle operation

400

This is used to make a temporary repair in a ruptured hose

What is a hose jacket

400
Broad concept, encompassing anything that can taint physical evidence
What is contamination
500
This knot is particularly useful for stabilizing long objects that are being hoisted
What is a half-hitch
500
Tendency of smoke, heat and other products of combustion to rise until they encounter a horizontal obstruction
What is horizontal smoke spread
500
Use of 2 or more pumpers to move water over a long distance by operating them in series

What is relay pumping

500

Hose appliance with one female inlet and multiple male outlets, usually smaller than the inlet.  Outlets are usually gated

What is a wye

500
Refers to evidence that is destroyed, damaged, altered or otherwise not preserved by someone who has the responsibility to preserve it
What is spoliation