Firefighting Ops
Firefighters should be wearing their PPE in this zone
What is the hot zone/ IDLH?
This door is rated for a certain amount of time against a fire and will limit fire spread. These doors can also close automatically.
What is a Fire Door?
Talking about a compartment fire these stages of fire develop that are being described
What is incipient, growths, fully involved, decay?
This material is easily available, effective at cooling hot gases and can be used to extinguish fire.
What is water?
During a fire, Adults that try to escape their homes are often found in this spot.
Near an exiting door.
The 8 checks before climbing a ladder are.
What are overhead clear, tips square, dogs locked, halyard tied, butts grounded, heeling in place, climbing angle is good, overhead is clear AGAIN?
What is a Rain/Snow roof?
These are the elements and create the fire triangle.
What are oxygen, heat, and fuel?
This fire extinguisher is used mainly in the kitchen for grease and oil fires.
What is a class-K extinguisher?
A rapid intervention team is composed of at least this many firefighters.
What is at least 2 firefighters?
When working from a roof, we set the ladder this tall.
What is 3-5 rungs above the roof?
This Building Construction is constructed of walls and structural members of noncombustible materials, interior members are wood or partially wood.
What is Type III Construction?
These are the four elements that make-up the fire tetrahedron.
This material used in fire suppression is less available but used to smother and cool fuel sources.
When rescuing a unconscious child or small adult from a window this amount of firefighters have to enter the window to assist.
What is 2 firefighters?
The standard for firefighter professional qualifications is defined by this NFPA standard.
What is NFPA 1001?
Protected Stairways work this way to provide protection.
What is providing positive pressure into stairwell to push air and other contaminants out.
This is considered as the total quantity of combustible contents of a building, space or fire area. (EX. wood framing, floors, ceilings, furnishing, other combustible materials in a building)
What is Fire Load?
The quick-response type sprinkler head utilized this specially designed release mechanism.
What is the fusible link?
VEIS stands for this and performed this way.
What is Ventilate, Enter, Isolate, Search?
A systematic way to keep track of location and function of personnel on scene.
These deciding factors change type II to type I building construction.
What is...
Heavy material with higher fire rating
Reinforced concrete, precast concrete, protected steel
This form of heat transfer is the transfer of heat through a solid material when the material is in contact from a direct heat source.
What is conduction?
A stream discharging more than 350 GPM is known as this.
What is a master stream?
Give a MAYDAY report for floor collapse
L-Location
U-Unit
N-Name
A-Assignment
R-Resource Needed
AIR- Above or Below Half