Fire Dynamics
Fuel in a combustion reaction is known as the
What is Reducing Agent
These roofs are ideal for some types of occupancies because they can span large open areas unsupported y columns, pillars, or posts.
What is Arched Roofs
In regards to PPE what does the acronym PASS stand for?
what is Personal Alert Safety System
Awareness of hazardous material mobility helps rescuers determine control zones and evacuation distances. The ___ ____ ____ establishes separate initial isolation distances based solely on the involved product's state of matter.
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)
Member of the IMS command staff responsible to the Incident Commander for monitoring and assessing hazardous and unsafe condition conditions and developing measures for assessing personnel safety on an incident.
What is Safety Officer
___ ____ ____ is the energy released per unit of time as a fuel burns and is usually expressed in (kW) or (MW)
What is Heat Release Rate
Doors can be swinging, sliding, folding, vertical and/or _______
What is Revolving
Protective coats have many design features such as retroreflective trim, wristlets, collar, closure system and ____ _____ _____
What is Drag Rescue Device
A community organization responsible for local emergency response planning. Required by SARA Title III and composed of local officials, citizens, and industry representatives.
What is Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
An area that adjoins two zones, AKA 'contamination reduction zone or corridor'
What is Warm Zone
Occurs when an extinguishing agent, such as dry chemical or Halon-replacement agent, interferes with this chemical reaction.
What is Chemical Flame Inhibition
These doors are formed with an interior core of laminated blocks of wood, particleboard, or a mineral composition. They are better fire barriers than either panel doors or hollow-core doors.
What is Solid-core doors
Two common fire fighting boots are constructed out of these materials.
What is Leather & Rubber
A detailed information bulletin prepared by a chemical's manufacturer or importer that provides specific information about the product. These sheets can be acquired from the manufacturer of material, the supplier, the shipper, and emergency response center such as CHEMTREC.
what is Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
Common technique utilizing sawdust, clays, charcoal, pads, booms, socks.
What is absorption
A fire that has access to all of the fuel needed to maintain combustion, but does not have enough oxygen to continue to burn is considered to be:
What is Ventilation-limited
Asphalt, Terracotta, and composite materials are examples of:
what are Roof Coverings
Protection against airborne pathogens includes SCBA, APR/PAPRs and ______-______ ______ ______ filters.
What High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA)
Hazmat containers are sometimes classified according to their transport mode. List the 4 Transport Modes.
What are Highway/Truck, Rail/Train, Water/Ship, Intermodal
Liquid, solid and gaseous substances that are airborne can have 4 types of dispersion
What is Hemispheric, cloud, plume, and/or cone
Changes in ventilation and _____ ______ can significantly alter thermal layering.
What is Flow Path
How do roof-mounted equipment such as HVAC units, water towers, telecommunications equipment injure and/or kill firefighters.
What is Roof collapse
NFPA and NIOSH require that two ___-___-___-___ ____ or redundant low-pressure alarms be installed on all SCBAs
What is End-of-service-time indicators (EOSTI)
"Standard system for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response"
What is NFPA 704
A synthetic foam concentrate that, when combined with water, can form a complete vapor barrier over fuel spills and is highly effective in extinguishing hydrocarbon fuels. ____ will not be effective on water-miscible materials such as alcohols, esters, and ketones.
what is Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF)