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| Refers to all of the tactics and tasks that are performed on the fire scene to achieve the final goal of extinguishing the fire. ` |
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| How do you stop the combustion process? |
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| Remove a part of the fire tetrahedron. |
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| Which agent is most often used? |
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| Successful fire fighting requires what? |
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| A team effort and coordinated attack. |
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| All suppression operations are classified as what? |
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| When is a offensive strategy used? |
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| in situations where the fire is not too large or too dangerous to be extinguished by applying water from interior handlines. |
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| Primary objective in defensive operation? |
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| When is the offensive or defensive decision made? |
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| what is one of the most crucial decisions made by IC? |
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| Defensive or Offensive decision |
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| When does the IC go defensive? |
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| When he has decided that its impossible to enter the building or control the fire with small hand lines. |
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| What is high priority during defensive operation? |
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| What size handline is most frequent for interior attack? |
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| Water flow through large handlines? |
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| can flow more than 250GPM |
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| How can 1 fire fighter control a large handline? |
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| Webbing strap or looping the line and sitting on it. |
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| Least amount of flow for master stream? |
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| Most common flow of master stream? |
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| What is the most a master stream can flow? |
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| Defines the pattern or form of a stream. |
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| What determines what nozzles are used with what hose lines? |
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| Solid stream is discharged as what? |
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| Air movement created by _______ can be used for ventilation. |
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| What are the 2 different methods of discharging water onto the fire? |
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Direct and Indirect.
also combination.... |
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| On the way to the seat of the fire what must you do? |
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| extinguish all other fire to prevent wrap around. |
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| The most effective means of fire suppression in most cases. |
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| Indirect application of water is what? |
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| used in situations where the room is ready to flash over. |
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| Remove as much heat as possible from the atmosphere as quickly as possible. |
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| when do you use indirect attack. |
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| When hot gases are at ceiling level. |
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| Fire Fighters make an indirect attack by using what nozzles? |
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| Straight, solid, or narrow fog. |
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| What is "paint the ceiling" |
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| indirect attack at the ceiling. |
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| Water to steam conversion |
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| How do you know a ceiling is still too hot? |
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| 3 members usually advance what handline in a building? |
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| Large handline nozzles are positioned where? |
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| in a single location so it can be manned by 1 or 2 fire fighters. |
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| How big is the loop a fire figher sits on |
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| What method is good choice for protecting exposures? |
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| Sitting on the looped hoseline |
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| How far back should the backup fire fighter be? |
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| 3 feet behind the nozzle operator |
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| How much weight is being put on a building every minute from a nozzle flowing 1,000 gpm? |
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| Force of impact from a master stream can do what to a building? |
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| Dislodge loose materials or cause a structural collapse |
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| What are deck guns also called? |
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| turret pipes or wagon pipes |
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| Who starts the flow of water? |
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| Wildland monitors can be mounted where? |
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| On the front bumper of their apparatus |
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| 15 gpm and 350gpm and can be used from an operator in a vehicle |
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| Most portable monitors come with how many inlets? |
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| Portable monitors are built with what size inlets? |
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| 2 and a half or with a large diameter hose line. |
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| Safe angle for monitors to be setup. |
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| When is a ladder pipe usually attached to a ariel ladder? |
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| Most new arial ladders are equipped with what? |
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| A fixed ladder pipe at the top |
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| Why do you direct a stream directly onto an exposure? |
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| Radiant heat can penetrate just a water stream |
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| Opening a door can contribute to flash over in as little as how long? |
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| Main challenge of basement fires. |
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| They are difficult to recognize |
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| During a basement fire what can happen to a stairwell? |
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| It can pose as a chimney to the inside of the house. |
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| Thermal imaging cameras are particularly useful when doing what? |
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| Looking for fires below a floor,. |
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| When fighting an above ground level fire where must hose lines be placed? |
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| to keep the fire from extending vertically and to ensure that exit paths are not blocked. |
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| What supplies high rise buildings with water? |
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| Where should other equipment be placed in a high rise in regards to the fire? |
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| If standpipes are not available consider what? |
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| What are used to keep fire fighters from becoming lost in a big box? |
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| How do you augment the water sprinkler system in a building giving it more pressure? |
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| Connect a fire department conneciton to it. |
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| Building that is an easy target for arsonist? |
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| One that is under construction, renovation, or demolition |
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| Whats good to extinguish smoldering fires in tightly packed combustible materials? |
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| What does Class A foam do to a trash fire? |
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| Eliminate the need for overhaul |
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