Hoses and Appliances/Fire Streams
When hose is laid from the water source to the fire.
What is a forward lay?
What is a primary search?
Used with a halligan-type tool, the device is useful in pulling all types of lock cylinders.
What is a K-tool?
The area where the fire started.
What is the origin?
Searching for and extinguishing hidden fires.
What is overhaul?
Occurs when the flow of water in a hose line is stopped suddenly resulting in a water surge.
What is water hammer?
Immediately activate the PASS device.
What should a firefighter do when they become trapped or injured?
Get a forcible entry tool into the space between the door and doorjamb, open the space and allow the lock bolt to slip from its keeper.
How do you open a swinging door?
The part of the fire that spreads most rapidly and does the most damage.
What is the head?
Used to drain runoff from the ceiling above out through windows or doors.
What is a water chute?
The type of stream resulting from the use of a smoothbore nozzle.
What is a solid stream?
Providing additional support to key places between a vehicle and the ground to prevent further movement.
What is vehicle stabilization/cribbing?
A Halligan is an example of this type of tool.
Prying
Fuels that include roots, peat, and other materials that lie under the ground surface.
What are subsurface fuels?
The tool most commonly used to open ceilings to check on fire extension.
What is a pike pole?
Used to achieve maximum water surface for heat absorption and is composed of very fine water droplets.
What is a fog stream?
Use a spring-loaded center punch or strike with a sharp point at the lower corner.
How do you remove the tempered glass from the side and rear windows?
The primary rule for forcible entry.
What is try before you pry?
The attack method where flames are or close to the edge are fought.
What is a direct attack?
In the area of actual fire involvement.
Where does overhaul begin?
The most common type of foam proportioner that can be connected at any point in the hose lay.
What is an in-line foam eductor?
The process of removing a person from a vehicle that has been involved in a motor vehicle accident when conventional means of exit, are impossible or inadvisable.
What is vehicle extrication?
Wooden handles of forcible entry tools are preserved by
What is a coat of boiled linseed oil?
The method of constructing a line away from the fire by removing unburned fuel.
What is an indirect attack?
By looking for discoloured walls, feeling for heat, and listening for popping sounds.
How does a firefighter detect hidden fires using their senses?