MPFD
This is the year the Midland Park Fire Company was organized.
What is 1909?
This color section of the ERG provides initial isolation and protective action distances for specific materials.
What is the orange-bordered pages? (Or Table of Initial Isolation and Protective Action Distances)
This is the standard operating pressure for most automatic (fog) nozzles.
What is 100psi?
This is the person who is responsible for the overall incident management at a fire scene.
Who is the incident commander?
The acronym P.A.R. stands for.
What is Personnel Accountability Report?
If you are stretching a yellow hand line, what is the size, length, and nozzle configuration.
What is 1 and 3/4 inch, 250 foot, 15/16 inch smoothbore?
This is the level of response where firefighters control release from a safe distance without entering the hot zone.
What is Operations level?
This is the psi loss per floor in a standpipe system.
What is 5 psi per floor?
This tactic removes heat and smoke vertically using roof operations.
What is vertical ventilation?
These are the minimum items required to successfully provide water to an engine company as the hydrant man.
What are supply hose, hydrant adapter (hydrant valve or hydrant to storz), and hydrant wrench?
This is how many 35 foot ground ladders do we have in the entire fire department?
What is two?
Both on Ladder 541.
These are the three control zones at a Hazardous Materials Incident.
What are Hot, Warm, and Cold zones?
This is the the name for the pressure remaining in a system while water is flowing.
What is residual pressure?
The collapse zone distance is typically how many times the height of the wall.
What is one and a half times the height of the wall?
These are the ladder components of a ground ladder that hold the fly section at a certain height of extension.
What are pawls/dogs?
On our apparatus, if an adapter is colored yellow, what does it mean?
What is an out of town adapter (ex. Paterson)?
These are the four items that are monitored by our four gas meters.
What are Oxygen, Hydrogen Sulfide, Carbon Monoxide, and Combustible Gases?
In engine company operations, this the the most common hose lay from a fire hydrant to the fire.
What is a forward lay?
This stage of fire development is characterized by rapid fire growth and full room involvement.
What is flashover?
What is the leading cause of firefighter line of duty deaths nationwide?
What is cardiac arrest?
This is location and length of the shortest pre-connected hand line on our apparatus.
What is the bumper/trash line on Engine 531?
These are the four routes of exposure.
What are Inhalation, Ingestion, Absorption, and Injection?
What is this formula used for: C x (Q over 100)2 x L = ???
What is friction loss?
Coefficient X (Quantity over 100)2 x Length = Friction Loss
This size hose line is recommended to be deployed to large commercial occupancy fires.
What is a two and a half inch handline?
These are the words represented by the acronym L.U.N.A.R.
What are Location, Unit, Name, Air Supply/Assignment, Resources Needed?