The Fire Service
Guides a person to demonstrate ethical and moral behavior.
What is Honor?
The average number of firefighters killed in the Line Of Duty Each year
What is 100?
Structural firefighting equipment is covered in this NFPA standard.
What is 1971
This system aids the dispatcher in sending the correct units to the correct location as quickly as possible.
What is Computer Aided Dispatch?
The five forms of energy.
What is Chemical, mechanical, Electrical, Light, and Nuclear?
Was once used to amplify the commanders voice, now is used as a symbol of authority
The Chief's trumpet or Bugle
These were the result of the National Firefighter Life Safety Summit that convened in March of 2004.
What are the 16 Life Safety initiatives.
An atmosphere is considered oxygen deficient if the if the level of oxygen is below.
What is 17%
This agency governs the operation of two way radios in the United States.
What is the FCC?
Fuel, oxygen, heat and a sustained chemical chain reaction is.
What is the fire Tetrahedron
This fire still that occurred on October 8, 1871 still has the largest loss of life in a single incident.
What was Peshtigo, WI
This is considered the leading cause of death among firefighters.
What is cancer?
This technique is where the firefighter takes a short breath, holds it, takes a second short breath and then releases with long exhale.
What is skip breathing?
A system of telephones connected by phone lines, radio equipment or cellular technology to a communications center or fire department.
What is Call Box
The three ways to transfer heat are.
What is conduction, convection and radiation?
This Fire occurred in March of 1911 in Manhatten, NewYork and paved the way for more stringent fire codes
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This is the most dangerous voluntary activity in the fire service today.
What is not wearing your SCBA in both active and post-fire environments?
These are the 3 gases most often present in smoke from a structure fire.
What are carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and phosgene?
Used to determine a predetermined response to an emergency.
What is Run cards?
Sodium, lithium and potassium are considered.
What combustible metals?
The 5 E's of Community Risk Reduction.
What are Education, Engineering, Enforcement, Economic Incentives and Emergency Response.
Provides confidential help for a wide range of problems that might affect performance.
What is an EAP
The required hydrostatic testing in years.
What is 5 years
A satellite based radio navigation system comprised of three segments; space, control and user.
What is GPS?
The process in which material is decomposed, or broken down, into simpler molecular compounds by the effects of heat alone.
What is Pyrolysis?