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Perry
Burke Hill Rd/ Davis Rd
Where is Van Volkenburg Rd?
THIS BOVINE IS CREDITED WITH STARTING THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871?
WHO IS MRS. O'LEARY'S COW?
This building classification where walls, floors roofs, columns are made of non-combustible material but usually not coated with fire resistive coating.
What is Type 2?
Size up should be conducted by who?
All members are to conduct size up to varying degrees.
This strategy is used when a fire is too large or dangerous to be fought otherwise. It involves firefighters working from the exterior of a building, using hose lines and other equipment to protect exposures and prevent the fire from spreading.
What is defensive attack?
Attica
Halls Corners Rd (238)/ McGrarth Rd
Where is Gulf Rd?
This City lost five members of their department on the night of December 27th, 1983 during the initial stages of a propane leak inside of a building.
What is Buffalo, NY?
This type of building method uses non-combustible outer walls and heavy timber interior.
What is Type 4?
In our community which side of the street would even-numbered homes be found?
What is east and south?
This term refers to construction system that is fabricated from components that have substantially less mass than traditional construction methods used from equivalent applications.
What is lightweight construction?
Warsaw
Butternut St/ Prospect St
Where is Grove St?
This fire occurred on the evening of February 20,2003 in West Warwick, RI and claimed the lives of over 100 people who were at a Great White concert.
WHAT IS THE STATION NIGHTCLUB FIRE?
This construction method also known as wood-frame uses wood or other combustible materials to for wall, floors, roof, and other structural elements.
What is type 5?
As a rule of thumb for collapse anticipation in ordinary construction or wood-frame buildings is that if fire has heavily involved an area for ___ minutes, fire forces should be withdrawn.
A. 5
B. 10
C. 15
D. 20
What is D 20 minutes.
An atmospheric concentration of any toxic, corrosive or asphyxiate substance that poses an immediate threat to life or would cause irreversible or delayed adverse health effects or would interfere with an individual’s ability to escape from a dangerous atmosphere.
What is Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health or IDLH?
Pavilion
Perry Rd(246)/ Big Tree Rd(63)
Where is Boyd Rd?
This type of roof construction is credited with killing:
6 FDNY FF at the Wallbaum's Supermarket in 1978
5 Hackensack FF at the Hackensack Ford Fire of 1988
2 Chicago FF at an abandoned Building in 2010.
What is bowstring roof construction?
This building type uses exterior walls of non-combustible materials, but the interior can be made of wood or other materials.
What is type 3?
What three factors concerning smoke should be prime elements of a size-up?
A. location, color, movement
B. location, smell, taste
C. smell, color, taste
D. color, movement, heat
What is location, color, movement?
Fires involving involving energized electrical equipment such as appliances, tools, and wiring are considered this type of fire.
What is Class C?
Bethany
Brown/W. Bethany Road
Where is Tapp Rd?
This drill was created after the September 1992 Death of Engineer Mark Langvardt. He was trapped in a small storage room after a collapse of the floor. The only exit for Langvardt was a window 20 inches wide at a sill height of 42".
What is the Denver Drill?
This building construction method uses non-combustible materials to create buildings that can withstand high temperatures and resist fire. Such as reinforced concrete, protected steel.
What is type 1 Construction?
On a hot humid day, you are the incident commander at a fire in a two-story Class 5 house with a basement. your attack hose line has entered the structure and has knocked-down the fire. The crew returns to the street with there air cylinders depleted, the officer approaches to inform you that the main body of fire has been knocked down, but there is still debris smoking that needs overhaul. You consult your dispatcher and find that you are 20 minutes into the alarm. What is the most correct order to issue?
A. Have all unit evacuate the structure.
B. Have only the original unit evacuate the structure.
C. Have the original unit replace there cylinder and complete overhaul.
D. Have fresh unit enter the structure and complete overhaul.
What is D
This mechanical form of ventilation works by blowing fresh-air into a fire affected space raises the internal pressure and allowing the smoke to be controlled.
What is positive-pressure ventilation or PPV?