ICS
The individual who holds overall responsibility for managing the entire incident.
Who is the Incident Commander (IC)?
In hybrid and fully electric vehicles, this bright color is universally used to identify high-voltage cabling.
What is orange?
Cutting the A-posts and B-posts, making relief cuts near the rear, and folding the entire top of the vehicle backward over the trunk is known by this term.
What is a roof flap?
The three events of a motor vehicle collision.
What is the vehicle-to-object, the occupant-to-vehicle, and the internal organs-to-structures of the body?
This rigid device is commonly sized and applied to the patient's neck to limit movement before they are extracted from the vehicle.
What is a cervical collar?
This ICS principle states that a supervisor should manage a manageable number of subordinates, typically between 3 and 7.
What is span of control?
A safety feature built into high pressure storage cylinders that is designed to rapidly release gas contents when exposed to high temperatures.
What is a pressure release device (PID)?
The technique of making a deep relief cut at the bottom of the A-post and inserting a hydraulic ram.
What is a dash displacement (dash roll)?
These specific structural features are engineered into the vehicle's frame or unibody to intentionally buckle and absorb kinetic energy during an impact.
What are crumple zones?
The very first medical priority upon gaining access to the patient inside the vehicle.
What is taking manual cervical spine stabilization (or assessing the airway)?
The ICS section responsible for providing facilities, services, and materials for the incident, including specialized extrication equipment if requested.
What is the Logistics Section?
A highly dangerous condition in EV batteries where a single cell's failure causes localized overheating that continuously spreads to adjacent cells.
What is thermal runaway?
The term used for the technique where rescuers completely remove the front and rear doors along with the B-post to create one massive exit pathway.
What is a side removal (or total side blowout)?
In this type of collision classification, the vehicle has very little structural material to absorb the impact energy, often resulting in severe intrusion into the passenger compartment and critical injuries.
What is a lateral impact (or T-bone / side-impact)?
The use of this medical tool can be used to halt bleeding in a limb.
What is a tourniquet?
A functional ICS designation used to manage a specific tactical operation without geographical boundaries, such as "Extrication" or "Medical."
What is a Group?
The expansion ration of liquid hydrogen.
What is 1:848?
Before putting hydraulic cutters on any roof pillar, rescuers must always strip the interior plastic trim to check for this explosive hazard.
What are airbag gas cylinders (or seatbelt pretensioners)?
The law of physics stating that a body in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an outside force, which explains why a patient continues moving forward after the vehicle strikes a wall.
What is inertia (or Newton's First Law of Motion)?
The term used to describe severe blood loss due to injuries (bleeding out)?
What is exsanguination?
The designated, safe location where personnel and apparatus are kept fully equipped and ready while waiting for a specific tactical assignment.
What is the Staging Area?
A system that can use wither the vehicle's internal combustion engine or the electric motor to power the vehicle's transmission and provide propulsion.
What is a parallel drive system?
When dealing with a vehicle resting on its roof, this technique involves using struts and lifting bags to raise the vehicle just enough to safely remove the patients underneath, rather than attempting to flip the car.
What is a vertical lift (or tunneling)?
According to the kinetic energy formula, doubling the speed of a vehicle increases its total kinetic energy by this factor.
What is four times (it quadruples)?
ABCDE is a mnemonic that stands for this:
What is Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, & Exposure?