What does this do?
I am the structure that contains the only cells that can generate their own electrical impulses.
What is the heart?
This acronym is used and taught to everyone for fire extinguisher operation
What is P.A.S.S.?
Pull/Aim/Squeeze/Sweep
Severe shortness of breath, gasping, wheezing, coughing up bloody or frothy sputum, chest pain, anxiety, and a feeling of drowning, especially when lying down are signs of this medical emergency.
What is Pulmonary Edema?
This is our default radio channel for structure fires.
What is 15-4?
This person is in charge of safety on every run.
Who is you?
I control essential involuntary functions like breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure.
What is the Medulla oblongata?
"No Colonel Sander's you're wrong, Mama's right"
This class of fire extinguisher is best suited for cooking fires.
What is Class "K"?
A Class K fire extinguisher contains a wet chemical agent, typically a solution of potassium acetate (or sometimes potassium carbonate/citrate), designed specifically for fires involving cooking oils and fats in commercial kitchens.
Sudden facial drooping, usually only one side, caused by nerve inflammation, is a sign of this.
What is Bell's Palsy?
This includes the four essential elements for fire.
What is the Fire Tetrahedron?
Fuel, Heat, Oxygen (or an oxidizing agent), and a Chemical Chain Reaction.
Regulator, cylinder, back plate and harness, and face piece are the 4 basic components of this.
What is SCBA?
I create bile, filter toxins, make albumin, store vitamins, and turn glucose into glycogen. I'm I don't work properly, I make you look like a Simpson.
What is the liver?
This is the year that the first fire extinguisher was invented.
What is 1723?
The first recorded fire extinguisher was invented by Ambrose Godfrey in 1723. This early device used a gunpowder explosion to disperse firefighting chemicals over flames.
Low blood pressure, JVD, and muffled heart sounds are known as this triad, and indicate this life threatening condition.
What is Beck's Triad and cardiac tamponade.
Tamponade is where fluid builds up around the heart, compressing it and preventing it from pumping effectively. Hypotension: The heart can't fill or pump enough blood, causing pressure to drop. JVD: Fluid backs up into the veins leading to the heart, making them bulge. Muffled Heart Sounds: The fluid surrounding the heart acts as insulation, making the heart sounds sound faint or distant when listening with a stethoscope
This is the type of heat transfer through direct contact, where vibrating particles collide and pass energy to adjacent particles.
What is Conduction?
This is a critical check to confirm every firefighter is safe and accounted for.
What is P.A.R. (Personnel Accountability Report)
I am crucial for turning food into fuel by making enzymes like amylase, lipase, protease, as well as hormones like insulin and glucagon.
What is the Pancreas?
In Terminator II: Judgement Day, this was the type of fire suppression system used in the Skynet Lab, due to sensitive computers and machines being present.
What is Haylon?
Due to O-zone damage, their production was phased out globally in 1994, but recycled Haylon is available for critical uses like aviation and military.
Signs of this include sudden high fever, severe headache, stiff neck, confusion, nausea/vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light, and possibly a purplish-red rash that doesn't fade under pressure.
What is Meningitis?
Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes (meninges) around the brain and spinal cord, caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites.
Bacterial is the most concerning because of how fast it can spread and it can kill within hours.
Little or no visible flame but extreme heat, smoke stained windows that are cracked or rattling, and pulsating smoke are all indicators that this is about to happen.
What is a backdraft?
This NFPA defines the standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Program.
What is NFPA 1500?
Safe design, maintenance, and use of trucks, tools, and PPE, as well as medical/physical fitness, behavioral health, incident stress, and ensuring competent personnel are all parts of NFPA 1500.
I am only one but broken up into 3 parts and use my vast surface area to absorb nutrients from food and water.
What is the small intestine?
1.)Duodenum (first part): Receives digestive juices (enzymes from pancreas, bile from liver) to break down food and absorb minerals like iron and folate. 2.)Jejunum (middle part): Absorbs most nutrients (carbs, fats, vitamins, proteins). 3.)Ileum (last part): Absorbs Vitamin B-12, bile acids, and remaining nutrients
The main ingredient in "ABC" extinguishers, this yellow powder is effective on ordinary combustibles.
What is Monoammonium Phosphate (MAP)?
MAP smothers flames by coating fuel, cutting off oxygen, and interrupting the fire's chemical reaction
This is a group of 13 genetic inherited disorders that affect your connective tissues, most commonly having overly flexible joints and stretchy, fragile skin. In severe cases can cause the walls of your blood vessels, intestines or uterus to rupture
What is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome?
During this stage of a fire; fire has spread over much if not all the available fuel; temperatures reach their peak, resulting in heat damage. Oxygen is consumed rapidly.
What is the fully developed stage?
The amount of time without movement before the MSA P.A.S.S. will start to pre-alarm.
What is 20 seconds?