Transfer of heat through direct contact
What is Conduction?
Oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical reaction.
What are the components of the fire tetrahedron?
The area where the fire started.
What is the origin?
A Halligan tool and flathead axe
What are the irons?
A rapid, thorough search done to locate victims as soon as possible.
What is a primary search?
Created from a salvage cover placed on the floor to hold small amounts of water.
What is a catch-all?
An explosive ignition that can occur when air allowed to mix with hot, unburned fire gases.
What is backdraft?
The part of the fire that spreads most rapidly and does the most damage.
What is the head?
Statement made to a second firefighter during forcible entry meaning to hit until told to stop.
What is drive?
Immediately activate the PASS device.
What should a firefighter do when they become trapped or injured?
The pathway of responsibility from the highest level of the department to the lowest.
What is chain of command?
The tendency of gases to form into layers according to temperature.
What is thermal layering?
Fuels that include roots, peat, and other materials that lie under the ground surface.
What are subsurface fuels?
A manual tool that takes two to four firefighters to breach a brick or concrete wall.
What is battering ram?
Providing additional support to key places between a vehicle and the ground to prevent further movement.
What is stabilization?
A self-sustaining chemical reaction yielding energy or products that cause further reactions of the same kind.
What is combustion?
Extinguishment of fire through cooling with water.
What is temperature reduction?
What is a direct attack?
Get a forcible entry tool into the space between the door and the doorjamb, open the space and allow the lock bolt to slip from its keeper.
Using a spring-loaded center punch or striking with a sharp point at the lower corner.
How do you remove tempered glass from car windows?
The most common of the hazardous substances contained in smoke that is a product of combustion.
What is Carbon Monoxide (CO)?
The classification of fires involving energized electrical equipment.
What is an indirect attack?
Use wire cutters and cut close to the posts.
A method of automobile construction used for most modern cars in which the frame and body of a vehicle is all one integral unit.
What is unibody construction?