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Signs & Symptoms
Hazardous Materials
Fire Suppression
Wildland
Portable Fire Extinguishers
100
Noninvasive emergency lifesaving care that is used to treat airway obstruction, respitory arrest, or cardiac arrest.
What is BLS Basic life support?
100
Any materials that pose an unreasonable risk of damage or injury to persons, property, or the environment.
What is Hazardous Materials?
100
An offensive operation that requires fire fighters to enter a building and discharge an extinguishing agent onto the fire.
What is an interior fire attack?
100
A new fire that starts outside areas of the main fire; usually caused by flying embers and sparks.
What is A Spot Fire?
100
Fires involving combustible metals.
What is class D fire extinguisher?
200
The first trained individual to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical care.
What is a first responder?
200
Energy transmitted through space in the form of electromagnetic waves or energy particles.
What is Radiation?
200
A type of attack employing both the direct and indirect attack methods.
What is a Combination Attack?
200
A special tent-like device that protects fire fighters from the radiant heat of fire for a short period of time.
What is a Fire Shelter.
200
Fires involving flammable and combustable liquids, oils, greases, tars, etc.
What is class B extinguishers?
300
What are the ABC's of the Emergency Medical Service?
What is Airway, Breathing, and Circulation?
300
Name four different forms of exposure.
What is inhalation, absorption, igestion, and injection.
300
A stream made by using a smooth bore nozzle to produce a penetrating stream of water.
What is A Solid Stream?
300
The three factors that affect wildland fires.
What is Fuel, Weather and Topography.
300
Fires involving combustible cooking media such as vegetable oils, animal oils, and fats.
What is class K fire extinguisher?
400
A series of manual thruts to the abdomen to relieve upper airway obstruction.
What is Heimlich maneuver?
400
The process of transferring a hazardous material from its source to people, animals, the environment, or equipment.
What is contamination?
400
An explosion that can occur when a tank containing a volatile liquid is heated.
What is a BLEVE
400
As the fire gets bigger, the area close to the area of origin is often referred to as the.
What is the heel or rear of the fire?
400
Fires that involve energized electrical equipment .
What is class C fire extinguisher?
500
Sudden stoppage of breathing.
What is Respiratory Arrest?
500
Name the 9 classes of chemicals from the ERG hand book.
1 Explosives, 2 Gases, 3 Flammable combustible Liquids, 4 Flammable solids, 5 Oxidizers, 6 Poisons, 7 Radioactive Materials, 8 Corrosives, 9 Other.
500
A large capacity nozzle that can be supplied by two or more hose lines or fixed piping. Can flow in excess of 300 GPM.
What is a Master Stream Device?
500
When 70% or greater canopy coverage and 20mph winds or greater indicate what type hazard?
What is crowning fire.
500
The classes of fires that a Halon estinguisher is rated for.
What is class A,B,C