The concealed space between the top floor ceiling and the roof of building
What is the cockloft?
100
Tool used to opening or close a hydrant by rotating the valve stem, and to remove the caps from the hydrant outlets
What is hydrant wrench?
100
Used to loosen or tighten couplings
What is spanner wrench?
100
It is made up of these 4 points: Fuel, Heat, Oxygen, and a Chain Reaction
What is the fire tetrahedron?
100
This phase begins when entry to buildings, vehicles, or other confined areas is locked or blocked, requiring firefighters to use special techniques to gain access
What is forcible entry?
200
Walls on a flat roof that extend above the roof line
What is a parapet wall?
200
A pre-packaged length of hose carried to a destination to be set up on arrival
What is a shoulder pack?
200
Tool used to cut fences or padlocks
What is a bolt cutter?
200
A sudden ignition of all combustible objects in a room
What is Flashover?
200
It is a large/long ventilation hole that acts as a fire break.
What is a trench cut?
300
A truss in the shape of an archery bow, where the top of the chord represents the curved bow and the bottom chord represents the straight bow string
What is a bowstring truss?
300
A device that allows two hoses to be connected together and flow into a single hose
What is siamese?
300
Two tools carried as a set in forcible entry by a firefighter doing in interior attack.
What is the flat head axe and halligan (the married pair or irons)
300
Class of fire that involves flammable or combustible liquids such as gasoline
What is a Class B fire?
300
Interior firefighter using the water can and pike pole during search and rescue efforts
What is the can man?
400
A method of construction in which the exterior walls are assembled with wood studs that run continuously the basement to the roof
What is balloon-frame construction?
400
A device used to split a single hose into 2 separate lines
What is a wye?
400
Hydraulic spreading tool designed to pry open doors that swing inward
What is a rabbet tool?
400
A more thorough search undertaken after the fire is under control
What is a secondary search?
400
Used to remove lock cylinders from structural doors so the locking mechanism can be unlocked
What is a K - Tool?
500
A natural material composed of calcium sulfate and water molecules
What is gypsum?
500
Type of foam that is used to fight fires involving ordinary combustible materials
What is Class A foam?
500
Specialized striking tool with an axe on one end and a sledge hammer on the other end
What is a maul?
500
An electronic device that detects differences in temperature based on infrared energy that generates an image based that information
What is a thermal imaging camera?
500
Provide the largest opening in the appropriate location, using the least amount of time and the safest technique