Ropes
This type of rope has two separate layers.
What is a kernmantle rope?
This type of knot is used as a safety knot
What is an overhand knot?
This type of tool is used to force a door with a panic bar.
What is a J tool?
A fire investigator finds a credit card statement showing that a homeowner purchased 50 gallons of gasoline, 10 cans of lighter fluid, and a book titled "How to Burn Down Your Own Home for Fun and Profit" one day before the fire that destroyed his home. This statement is an example of this type of evidence.
What is documentary evidence?
This is the minimum TOTAL LENGTH of ladders (NOT number of ladders) for an aerial/ladder truck.
What is 115 feet? (391)
Most water rescue rope is made of this material
What is polypropylene?
This type of knot joins two ropes of equal or unequal size
What is a sheet bend/Becket bend?
This tool contains a case-hardened screw that is driven into the keyhole of a lock.
What is a bam-bam tool? (339)
In a burned structure, these show the RELATIVE degree of fire exposure times and temperatures of the affected objects.
What are fire patterns?
When performing this type of drag, the victim's hands are tied together behind the rescuer's neck.
What is a firefighter drag?
These are the four parts of the rope maintenance formula.
What are care, clean, inspect, and store?
This type of knot should be used to create a loop for hoisting a ladder.
What is a figure eight on a bight?
When forcing an inward-opening door, you should first insert the adze end of the Halligan approximately this far above or below the lock.
What is 6 inches? (343)
A two year old is playing with his mom's cigarette lighter and sets the rug on fire. In terms of the classification of fire cause, this is an example of this type of fire.
What is an accidental fire? (1045)
This type of mechanism prevents water from flowing backwards.
What is a clapper valve?
This type of knot creates a 25% reduction in strength of a rope.
What is a figure eight?
This type of figure eight knot could be used to tie a life safety rope around a person.
What is a figure eight on a bight? (313)
This type of wood swinging door has horizontal bracing and is often constructed of tongue-and-groove boards
These three types of fire pattern indicate that a fire spread up and out from the base of the pattern.
What is a V, U, or hourglass pattern? (1043)
This highly combustible product of burning wood often coats the inside of chimneys and causes chimney fires.
What is creosote?
This is the maximum thickness of technical life safety rope.
What is 1/2 inch (12.5 mm)?
This type of knot should be used (in combination with a couple half hitches) for hoisting a pike pole.
What is a clove hitch?
This type of saw blade is easily damaged by gasoline fumes and should not be kept near petroleum products.
What is a masonry-cutting blade? (337)
This is the second step in the scientific method.
What is defining the problem? (1042)
This type of heat detector would be INAPPROPRIATE to place near the exterior door of a heated parking garage.
What is a rate-of-rise heat detector?