The first step in making plans to manage an emergency incident
What is performing a size-up?
The risk that is justified when lives can be saved
What is high risk?
The most basic method for staying oriented inside a low-visibility environment?
What is staying in contact with the hose line?
The volume of space in which the movement of cooler air enters through an inlet vent and the space where hot gases and smoke exit through an exhaust outlet
What is a flow path?
The location where water is directed during hydraulic ventilation
Out a window or door
The ICS section that is responsible for providing needed services and supplies
What is logistics?
This is done for the main purpose of locating any victims not found in the primary search
What is a secondary search?
The term that means that a fire company arrives together, works together, and leaves together
What is team integrity or crew integrity
The combined process of emission, transmission, and absorption of energy traveling by electromagnetic wave propagation between a region of higher temperature and a region of lower temperature
What is radiation?
What are trusses?
What is a Division?
The words in the acronym VEIS
Ventilate, Enter, Isolate, Search
The term for a roll call taken by a supervisor at an emergency incident
What is a Personnel accountability report or PAR?
Heat transfer by circulation within a medium such as a gas or a liquid
What is Convection?
The phenomenon in which smoke hangs low to the ground on a calm, cool, damp day
What is smoke inversion?
The critical factor to consider when evaluating the potential for collapse of a burning structure
What is the length of time that the building has been burning?
The minimum amount of firefighters needed for a ladder rescue
What is 2?
The amount of time that a SCBA cylinder can be expected to last under fire fighting conditions
What is 20-25 minutes
The rapid chemical process in which the combination of a substance with oxygen produces heat and light
What is combustion?
Recirculation is associated with this form of ventilation
What is negative-pressure?
Two or more single resources of the same type with an assigned supervisor
What is a strike team?
The best source of information for identifying building layout, stairways, and exits
What are preincident plans?
The words that make up the acronym LUNAR
What is Location, Unit, Name, Air/Assignment, and Resources needed?
Smoke puffing in and out of a structure is indicative of this

The type of occupancy in which the 7, 9, 8 cut is best suited
What is large commercial occupancy?