TAKE A LOOK AROUND
A rapid search and isolation of a room from the exterior; conducted through the window, where there is a credible report of a possible victim.
What is O-VEIS?
Alarm that sounds when SCBA air supply is low, typically 33 percent.
What is low-pressure alarm or end of life alert?
P-A-R
What is personal accountability report?
A land-based efforts to find victims or recover bodies.
What is Search?
The hose coupling that leads into the fire (gender)
What is male?
A portable, handheld light, powered by batteries and used to illuminate dark areas or signal for help.
What is a flashlight?
A type of tool used to couple and uncouple hose.
What is a Spanner Wrench.
Rapid but thorough search to determine the location of victims; performed either before or during fire suppression operations.
What is a primary search?
Valve on a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) that is used when a regulator malfunctions.
What is a bypass valve?
I-D-L-H
What is immediately dangerous to life and health?
The operations directed at locating and removing endangered persons and treating the injured at an emergency incident.
What is Rescue?
Often found behind doors or in heavily traveled pathways or bedrooms of home.
What are victims?
A strong, tightly woven strip of fabric used for straps, handles,
What is webbing?
The amount of weight of a gallon of water.
What is 8 pounds?
Slow, thorough search conducted after the fire is under control by personnel who did not conduct the primary search.
What is a secondary search?
Any area that is no longer considered a hostile environment.
What is a Safe Haven?
P-A-S-S
What is Personal Alert Safety System?
A "circle" evaluation and analysis of an incident conducted by the incident commander (IC) or someone designated by the IC after the initial size-up is completed.
What is a 360-degree walk-around?
Assessment of a facility or location made before an emergency occurs, in order to prepare for an appropriate emergency response.
What is a preincident surveys ?
A device worn by firefighters a that provides a supply of clean, breathable air from a portable tank
What is a SCBA?
The two knots used to lift a firefighting axe.
What are a clove hitch and a half hitch.
Search method in which the team leader remains at a fixed point such as a door, wall, or hoseline while searching team members spread out through a room to complete a search.
What is the oriented-search method?
1. Always know how much air you have left
2. Know your point of no return
3. Inform IC if you must exit the structure
What are the three key principles of air management?
R-I-T
What is Rapid Intervention Team?
What is tentable?
Conducted by the first-arriving company officer, a rapid evaluation and analysis of an incident before the 360-degree walk-around is conducted. Also called windshield size-up.
What is an Initial Size -up
Allows firefighters to see sources of heat through darkness and thick smoke
But cannot "see through" objects
What is a Thermal Imaging Camera?
The three methods of heat transfer.
What are conduction, convection and radiation?
A search team consisting of an officer who acts as the anchor person and two or more searchers where the anchor person ties the rope to a stationary object and the searchers search the rooms while holding on to the rope so that they can quickly exit by following the rope out if needed.
What is a team search method?
Three loud bursts from an apparatus air horn.
What is an evacuation signal?
L-U-N-A-R
What are Location, Unit, Name, Air and Resources?
A safety procedure that requires a minimum of two personnel to enter a hazardous area and a minimum of two backup personnel to remain outside.
What is two in/ two out rule?
The three priorites at every incident.
What are Life safety, Incident stabilization, Property conservation?
A rope with an anchor point to keep firefighters in contact with each other and with the egress route from a burning building.
What is a search rope?
A flat metal plate used to connect and strengthen structural elements like beams, columns, and truss members.
What is a Gusset PLate?