Station Safety
According to OSHA, this the most common mechanism of injury that occurs during fire station activity
What are slips and falls?
A water transfer set-up that involves pumping water from one apparatus to another, most typically from a tanker to an attack engine/truck
What is a tanker relay?
This a courtesy light that may or may not be effective in relieving traffic congestion during an emergency response in POV
What is a blue light?
What is 200'?
What is a Pulaski tool?
This safety intervention tool is hanging near the stairs to the second floor
What is the empty bottle of eye wash saline?
A weighted chimney fire nozzle designed to operate at low pressure that creates a misting spray designed to cool and extinguish without causing damage to the chimney itself
What is the snuffer?
This TFD officer has been known to jump fire calls in Mecklenburg and Enfield, as well as conduct "drivers training" with the county air truck, coincidently during any Tompkins County structure fire activity
Who is Matt Muraca?
This method can be used for reading hose couplings in low or zero visibility to determine the direction of exit from a structure/IDLH
What is "smooth, bump, bump to the pump," or "lugs, lugs, hose, out you goes..."?
What are spot fires?
The number of times John Keefe has utilized his belay hasty harness while conducting bailout trainings
What is seven?
This valve controls the 5" intake on a typical pump panel
This past chief saved Taughannock Farms Inn single-handedly by pulling a fire extinguisher from his vehicle and knocking down a growing basement fire, before most members had gotten out of bed for the call
Who is Jason Fulton?
The water to steam expansion rate at 212 degrees Fahrenheit
What is 1700?
LCES
What is Lookouts, Communication, Escape Routes, Safety Zones
This device, used most typically when washing fire apparatus, as been know to injure its operators in the groin area during the retraction phase
What is the overhead hose reel
The preferred nozzle pressure for 1804's deck gun
The number of blue lights on firefighter Kevin Whitaker's POV
What is six?
What is roll-over?
The number of hotshots that died at the Yarnell Hill fire event of 2013 in Prescott, AZ
What is 19?
The occupancy rating for the main meeting room at the station
What is 180?
This output system, usually made of PVC, is found at some static water sources such as ponds
What is a dry hydrant?
This Trumansburg member that lives in the Town of Ulysses, developed the reputation for jumping EMS calls during COVID in order to boost his call response numbers
Who is Tim Dodge?
This firefighting tactic involves cooling the fire from the exterior of the structure before entering for an interior attack
This elite and highly trained group of wild land firefighters jump out of planes and parachute to their operation target
Who are smokejumpers?