Training
Skills in the fire service are based on these, which are found in NFPA 1001.
What are Job Performance Requirements?
Roughly half of fire service LODDs are a result of these.
What are cardiac events and strokes?
This standard piece of firefighting equipment was once a controversial new technology.
What are Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus?
We could fix America's fire problem if we would require these.
What are residential sprinklers?
The American fire service is currently experiencing an epidemic of this.
What is suicide?
A firefighter who has been tested by an independent accrediting body and has proved that he or she can perform specific skills is ________.
What is certified?
This is a nationally-recognized test that was jointly devised by the IAFF and IAFC, and measures a candidate's ability to perform the physical aspects of firefighting.
What is CPAT?
Technology can be very helpful, but it can be detrimental if this happens.
What is over-reliance?
This is where most Americans have learned everything they know about residential sprinklers.
What are T.V. and movies?
This benefit should be offered to firefighters and their families by their employer.
What is an Employee Assistance Program?
Certifying personnel to increasingly higher levels is known as __________.
This is what occurs when the body's cells burn fuel without the benefit of oxygen.
What is anaerobic metabolism?
These devices are becoming smaller and more affordable, and can help us fight fires more efficiently.
What are thermal imagers?
Retrofitting a home with a residential sprinkler often costs less than buying one of these.
What is a hot tub?
This process is important after an emotionally stressing incident.
What is a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing?
If a class of firefighters has a few students who learn at a different pace than the rest of the class, the instructor might have to do this.
What is adjust teaching methods?
While fitness means ability to perform tasks, this means maintaining good health.
What is wellness?
Information is now available to firefighters on the scene or en route through these devices.
What are Mobile Data Terminals?
Proposed codes would require installation of residential sprinklers in these applications.
What is new construction?
All psychological support provided to firefighters must be treated this way.
What is confidentially?
This process involves our brains looking in the "already existing files" to see what we did previously to handle a situation.
What is Recognition-Primed Decision Making?
Our turnout gear protects us from the fire's heat, but it also impairs this process?
What is heat dissipation?
Many of the new technologies in fire service come from here.
What are other industries?
This is the most likely reason for nonacceptance of residential sprinklers.
What is misunderstanding?
This is where many firefighters turn when they have emotions they cannot effectively deal with.
What are alcohol and drugs?