Smoke and Fire
Building Categories
Ventilation/Ladders
Hose appliances
EMS
100

An explosion that occurs when air is let into a oxygen starved fire.

Backdraft

100

This type of class are used in high rises and are constructed of concrete and protected steel.

Type 1 : Fire Resistive

100

This type of ventilation is done to relieve heat and smoke from a building.

Vertical

100

Used to bring water from one hose to two hoses.

Wye

100

Name the four common hospitals the department transports to

GSH, EMH, GOMC, CDH

200

This event inverts the temperature of a fire with the hottest on the floor and the moderate at the ceiling.

Flashover

200

This type is found in older buildings and utilizes large dimensional lumber that holds up well to fire conditions. 

Type 4: Heavy Timber

200
The position for clearing out an opening.

Upwind side of opening

200

Used for stopping water to change out a burst hose line.

Hose Clamp

200

This procedure is used when you are unable to get an ET tube into a patient due to facial injuries.

Cricothyrodomy

300

This term is used when fire spreads to other areas at a large incident.

Conflagration

300

This type is found in modern homes with the walls and roof made of combustible materials.

Type 5: Wood Frame

300

Area of the window to place a ladder when rescuing a victim.

Middle of the opening, below the sill.
300

This appliance is used to to bring two hoses into one common hose. 

Siamese

300

Contraindications for the Etomidate

Hypersensitivity, Sepsis/Septic patients, Use in pregnancy.

400

This line represents the travel of fire and the line between separation of two different fire affects.

Demarcation line

400

This type of building can be with new or old construction consisting of unreinforced masonry or lightweight roof systems supported by reinforced masonry or tilt slab.

Type 3: Ordinary

400

Name three things you need for ventilation efforts (such as equipment).

Saw, Ladder, Pike pole, Axes, roof ladder, Radio, SCBA.

400

Name of the valve used in a Siamese appliance.

Clapper valve

400

The adult dose for Ketamine for intubation?

2 mg/kg slow IV/IO over 30-60 seconds

500

Name all four stages of fire and what is the first stage and what is the longest stage.

Incipient, Growth, Fully Developed or free burning, and Decay.

First stage - Incipient

Longest - Decay

500

This type of of construction is typically found in new buildings and remodels of commercial structures. Walls and roofs are of reinforced masonry or tilt slab while the roofs have metal structural members.

Type 2: Non-Combustible

500

Name all ladders that the department uses that are on both trucks.

16', 16', 18, 14', 28', 35' - two section, 35' - three section, 10' scuttle ladder.

500

Used to agitate foam while flowing water.

Eductor

500

The indications for the use of Dopamine

Symptomatic Hypotension, absence of hypovolemia secondary to cardiogenic/neurogenic/ septic shock.