Class "C" fire extinguishers are used on these types of fires.
What are electrical or energized equipment fires?
100
This dog is considered the mascot of the fire service.
What is a Dalmatian?
100
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is abandonment?
200
Warn all personnel to pull back to a safe location.
What is an evacuation signal?
200
This type of SCBA uses a constant supply of air in order to pressurize the face piece, keeping toxic gases from entering.
What is Positive Pressure?
200
Class "K" extinguishing equipment is most commonly found here.
What are kitchen hood systems?
200
This founding father is often considered America's First Fire Chief.
Who is Ben Franklin?
200
The granting of permission for health care without a formal agreement between the patient and health care provider.
What is implied consent?
300
Term indicates that a firefighter is lost, missing or requires immediate assistance.
What is a mayday?
300
This type of environment has an oxygen concentration below 19.5%.
What is an oxygen-deficient environment?
300
This extinguisher type is labeled using a Green Triangle.
What is a Class "A" extinguisher?
300
What is Insurance Companies.
Prior to government-run fire departments, private fire brigades would race to the scene of a fire and get paid by who?
300
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is negligence?
400
A type of system with predertimed, coded messages, such as "what is your 10-20?" used by responders over the radio.
What are ten-codes?
400
Use of these visual signals signify the available amount of air remaining in an air cylinder.
What is a HUD (Heads UP Display)?
400
The acronym "PASS" is used when describing the four step process referring to extinguisher usage. This is what "PASS" means.
What is Pull, Aim, Sqeeze, Sweep?
400
The fourth deadliest nightclub fire in US history. Caused by pyrotechnics that ignited polyurethane foam insulation lining the walls and ceiling of the stage platform.
What was the Station Nightclub Fire?
400
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and limits of the EMT's job.
What is scope of practice?
500
System used by fire departments to report and maintain computerized records of fires in a uniform manner.
What is National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)?
500
This agency regulates compressed gas cylinders, including SCBA cylinders, in the United States.
What USDOT (United States Department of Transportation)?
500
The process of converting the fatty acids in cooking oils to soap or foam.
What is saponification?
500
Although no official cause was ever found, it's believed a cow kicking over a lantern started this deadly fire.
What was The Great Chicago Fire?
500
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patient.