Communications
A central location that takes all emergency calls and routes the call to the fire, EMS, or Law Enforcement dispatcher is:
What is a public safety answering point?
In order to burn, fuel must be in ______ state.
What is gaseous?
Life safety rope is used for:
What is rescue victims?
This tactic is employed when it is not possible to enter using normal methods.
What is forcible entry techniques to gain access.
Situational awareness during structural search and rescue includes:
What is communicating changes in fire spread and visibility levels?
Fires in the _______ stage do not generate sufficient heat or flame to cause unprotected steel or wood frame buildings to collapse.
What is Incipient stage?
Individuals who are trained to receive, process, and dispatch emergency calls are known as:
What is telecommunicators?
What is a measure of heat energy transfer rate?
What is Heat Flux?
Which type of rope construction is used for life safety ropes?
What is kernmantle?
Which factor is important to consider when performing forcible entry?
What is type of door, window or lock?
Which situation would be a considered "MAYDAY" situation?
What is a SCBA malfunction?
Which building material is the most common in North America?
What is wood?
Enhanced 9-1-1 systems provide dispatchers with information such as the caller's location, phone number and :
What is directions to the caller's location?
Heat transfers from one body to another by 3 mechanisms: What are they?
Conduction, Radiation, and Convection
The type of rope used for utility applications.
What is natural fiber rope?
Which type of tool works as a lever to provide mechanical advantage when forcing entry.
What is prying tool?
To employ effective air management techniques during search and rescue, firefighters must:
What is check SCBA air levels after periods of heavy work?
The effects of heat and fire on "Metal" products depends on:
What is the type of Metal and whether or not it is covered?
The power of the transmitter and receiver and the height of the broadcast and receiving antennas determine the:
What is the distance a radio signal will travel?
Which type of fuel is difficult to extinguish using water as the only extinguishing agent?
What are liquids that are less dense (lighter) than water!
Which type of webbing is commonly used for rescue applications?
What is tubular webbing?
"Irons"
What is a Halligan tool and a flat-head axe
An atmosphere is considered oxygen-deficient when oxygen levels are:
What is below 19.5%
What is the primary material used for structural support in the construction of large buildings?
What is steel?
Which Federal agency issues radio licenses to the fire department!
What is the Federal Communications Commission!
Dailey Double!
A fuel's _____ __ _____ is the total amount of thermal energy released when a specific amount of that fuel burns.
What is heat of combustion?
Which part of the rope is used to tie a knot?
What is the working end?
The use of any power tool is prohibited in what type of atmosphere?
What is working in a flammable atmosphere?
Which type of search is intended to quickly find victims before or during suppression operations?
What is a primary search?
In a Type _____ building, structural collapse is unlikely, but will usually be localized instead of structure-wide if collapse does occur?
What is Type I
Once an emergency has been reported, the information must be:
What is transmitted to responding units?
What is the primary consideration affecting how easily solid fuels ignite?
What is the Surface-to-mass ratio?
A _____ _______ knot is primarily used to attach a rope to an object such as a pike pole or hoseline.
What is clove hitch?
Which method is a safe to use when CARRYING an axe?
What is blade pointing away from your body?
A search of the fire floor generally starts?
What is start as close to the fire as possible and works back toward the entrance?
"Dailey Double"
What type of building material can be highly combustible and produce toxic gases when exposed to fire?
What is Engineered wood products?
Two basic rules of communications are: 1. The sender should identify themselves in every transmission. 2. The receiver should _____ ____ _____:
What is acknowledge the message?
What is an example of a self-sustaining chemical reaction!
Flaming Combustion!
Which knot used is to provide an extra level of protection when tying other types of knots.
What is an overhand safety knot?
What is the best safety practice for carrying a power tool?
What is carry the tool to the area where it will be operated before starting it?
When conducting search and rescue operations, firefighters should:
What is close doors to create protected areas and avoid creating additional flow paths?
What is an indicator of structural instability or impending structural collapse?
What is a sagging/spongy roof?
What is a remote area or location inside a structure that causes the loss of a cellular or radio signal?
What is a dead zone
What is the primary oxidizing agent in most fires?
What is Oxygen in the air.
What type of rope is used to mark control zone perimeters.
What is utility rope?
What will happen if the blade on the axe head is extremely sharp and ground too thin?
What is pieces of the blade may break off when performing forcible entry?
_____ consist of at least two trained members standing by in a case a firefighter must be rescued
What is a rapid intervention crews?
When there is an indication the structure has been weakened by prolong exposure to fire or heat, what should be established outside the structure.
What is a collapse zone?
Teletype is used for:
What is used to receive calls from individuals with hearing impairments?
What are the four stages of fire development!
Incipient, growth, fully developed, and decay.
OSHA prohibits the use of ropes to hoist this piece of equipment.
What is a pressurized SCBA cylinder?
What is required to care for and maintain wooden handles?
What is sanding to eliminate splinters?
Immediately after a "MAYDAY" is broadcast, all ______
What is all radio traffic unrelated to the MAYDAY must stop?
Due to its high-water content, _____ has excellent heat-resistant and fire-retardant properties?
What is gypsum/sheet rock
The use of plain English in radio communications transmissions and avoidance of 10-codes is known as:
What is clear text?
Development of a fire in the incipient stage depends largely upon the:
What is the characteristics and configuration of the fuel involved!
A _____ is a bend in the knot that is created by bending the rope back on itself while keeping the sides parallel.
What is a bight?
Double Dailey
The most common type of locking or latching mechanisms found in residential homes are:
What is Cylindrical locks?
When an evacuation signal is given, all units on scene must:
What is give a personnel accountability report (PAR)?
Dailey Double
Other than fire suppression, which fireground activity can greatly affect a structure's chance of collapse?
What is Overhaul?