Fire Streams
Incident Command
Take a Walk on the Wild(land) Side
Hazmat
Where there's smoke...
100
When water is converted to steam, it increases in volume by this amount.
What is 1700 times?
100
The ongoing evaluation of influential factors at the scene of an incident
Size-up
100
An axe head with a mattock (used for digging) attached to the back.
What is a Pulaski?
100
The substance represented by this placard:
What is Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)?
100
The visible by-product of incomplete combustion.
Smoke
200
The 3 most common hose diameters used by Yukon fire departments.
What are
1 3/4"
2 1/2"
4"
200
This principle establishes the maximum number of people or functions any one supervisor can control.
Span of control
200
The area where structures and other human development meet and intermix with wildland areas containing flammable vegetation.
Wildland Urban Interface fire (WUI)
200
The name of the process for removing potential hazardous materials from your PPE or your person.
Decontamination
200
Smoke will be this colour if unfinished wood is burning.
Brown or tan (may be an indicator that there is structure damage to trusses, joists, etc.)
300
Fire stream of finely divided particles used for fire control.
What is a fog stream?
300
The map feature denoted by this symbol:
Incident Command Post
300
Fire that burns in the upper foliage of trees.
Crown Fire
300
From the top, and moving clockwise, what do these figures represent?
Yellow= oxidizing agent
White = radioactive
Blue = poisonous
Red = flammable liquid
300
Once they begin to burn, nearly all solid materials will initially produce this colour of smoke due to moisture being released.
White
400
Two places to use a broken stream nozzle.
What are attics, basements, confined spaces.
400
The ICS application in which responding agencies/jurisdictions with responsibility share incident management.
Unified Command
400
The tactic depicted in this photo:
Back Firing or Back Burning
400
The IC must have this key piece of information before beginning any offensive planning.
Identification of the products involved.
400
Photoelectric and Ionization are types of these devices.
Smoke detectors
500
Maximum flow rate for a handline.
What is 350 GPM or 1,400 L/min?
500
The ICS principle that means each employee reports directly to just one supervisor.
Unity of Command
500
The three components of the wildland fire triangle.
Fuel
Weather
Topography
500
The acronym BLEVE stands for this hazardous event.
Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion
500
This constituent of smoke is colourless, odorless, tasteless and lethal.
Carbon Monoxide