Terminology
Where trained personnel mitigate the problem at the scene.
What is Hot Zone?
This PPE helps allow exhaled air to be discharged or vented into the atmosphere.
What is a Open-Circuit Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus?
The interface between the hot gas layers and cooler layer of air; This is due to net pressure being zero.
What is the Neutral Plane?
This knot is used as a security knot.
What is a overhand?
This type of construction is made of large-dimensioned lumber or laminated wood.
The maximum number of subordinates or functions that any one supervisor can control, typically 3 to 7, with 5 considered optimum.
What is Span of Control?
This is used for hoisting and lowering the fly sections of an extension ladder.
What is a Halyard?
Minimum temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapors to form a ignitable mixture with air near the surface of the liquid.
What is Flash Point?
This knot is used to attach a rope to a pole, post, or hose line.
What is a clove hitch?
A subset of type V construction where the exterior wall studs are continuous from the foundation to the roof
What is balloon framing?
Method for identifying which emergency responders are working on an incident scene.
What is a Personnel Accountability System?
Central location that takes all emergency calls and routes the call to the fire, emergency medical, and law enforcement dispatcher.
What is the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)?
The measure of the rate of heat transfer to or from a surface, typically expressed in kilowatts per square meter (kW/m squared).
What is Heat Flux?
This knot is used to be a stopper knot
What is a figure eight?
These are used in Type II construction that support metal roof decks which contribute to having a lower fire-resistance rating.
What are Unprotected Open Web Joists?
An electrical field that radiates outward from where the current enters the earth; Its intensity dissipates rapidly as distance increases from the point of entry.
What is a Ground Gradient?
Assembled and mounted on the interior door surfaces and is used as a supplemental lock; Typically includes Night Latches, Deadbolts, and Vertical Deadbolts.
What is a Rim Lock?
Limit at which a flammable gas or vapor will ignite. The gas or vapor is too rich to burn at this point.
What is the Upper Explosive or Flammable Limit (UEL or UFL)?
This type of rope consists of a protective shield over the load-bearing core strands.
What is a Kernmantle Rope?
This type of material, typically used on Type V construction, is an added petroleum-based fuel to the fire load and produces dense, dark, oily, toxic smoke and will melt away from the side of the building.
What is Vinyl Siding?
What is Memorandum of Understanding?
This uses deionized water as the agent and nozzles that produce a fine spray instead of a solid stream; Also makes these class A extinguishers safe to use on energized equipment.
What is Stored-Pressure Water-Mist Extinguishers?
Chemical process that occurs when a substance combines with an oxidizer such as oxygen in the air.
What is oxidation?
This device is used for creating anchors and lashings, or for packaging patients and rescuers; Typically constructed from the same material as synthetic rope.
What is Webbing?
This is a load bearing wall shared by two adjacent structures.
What is a Party Wall?