Vehicle Extrication
The first level of rescue training provided to all responders: emphasizes recognizing hazards, securing the scene, and calling for appropriate assistance. There is no use of actual rescue skills.
What is awareness.
A pallet type framework used to shore up a heavy load.
What is a box crib.
A resource available to emergency responders via telephone on a 24-hour basis.
What is CHEMTREC (Chemical Transportation Emergency Center).
The characteristic of being communicable from one person to another person.
What is contagious.
A central command and control facility, found at all government levels, responsible for strategic overview; tactical decisions are left to incident commanders.
What is the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
A vehicle powered by energy other than petroleum-based fuel, or a vehicle that relies on a combination of petroleum and another fuel or energy source for power.
What is Alternative power vehicle.
A group of rescuers expertly trained in various disciplines of technical rescue.
What is the Technical Rescue team.
Any substance that is toxic, poisoneous, radioactive, flammable, or explosive and causes injury or death with exposure.
What is Hazardous material.
Terrosium that is carried out by those not of the host's country; also known as cross-boarder terrorism.
What is International Terrorism.
A sudden, calamitous event, such as an accident or catastrophe, that causes great damage, loss, or destruction.
What is a disaster.
Use of specialized tools and advanced techniques to free a patient from the area or object in which he or she is trapped.
What is disentanglement.
A specialized cribbing assembly of wood or plastic blocks arranged in a step configuration.
What is step chock.
An expression of a fuel-air mixture, defined by upper and lower limits, that reflects an amount of flammable vapor mixed with a given volume of air.
What is flammable range.
The emitting of an agent after exposure, for example, from a person clothes that have been exposed to the agent.
What is off-gassing.
Areas where slightly injured or non-injured displaced people can be gathered together and transported by bus or truck for further treatment.
What is Causality collection points.
Complicated entry requiring special tools, advanced training, and the use of force, such as breaking windows.
What is complex access.
A type of glass that is heat-treated so that it breaks into small, relatively dull pieces.
What is tempered glass.
The removal or relocation of people who may be affected by an approaching release of a hazardous material.
What is evacuation.
The length of time that a chemical agent will stay on a surface before it evaporates.
What is persistency.
The official internal report of the entire event, such as a disaster, which should contain the facts of the incident reflected in a chronologic, accurate manner.
What is an After-action report (AAR).
A slim low profile, wedge like object used to snug loose cribbing under a load or to fill a void.
What is a shim.
A method accounting for all personnel at an emergency incident and ensuring only those with specific assignments are permitted to work within the various zones.
What is the Accountability system.
The minimum amount of gaseous fuel that must be present in the air rot the air-fueled mixture to be flammable or explosive.
What is lower flammable limit (LFL).
An additional explosive device used by terrorists that is set to explode after the initial bomb.
What is a secondary device.
The act of conducting comprehensive preplanning that will apply to any disaster.
What is an All-hazards approach