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| Deploys hoselines for fire attack and exposure protection |
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| Performs forible entry, search and rescue, ventilation, salvage and overhaul, and utilitie control and provides access to upper levels of structures. |
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| Searches for and removes victims from areas of danger or entrapment and performs techincal rescue. |
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| Extinguishes wildland fires and protects structures in the wildland / urban interface. |
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| Responds to and mitigates hazmat incidents |
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| Provides emergency medical care and transportation to a medical facility. |
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| Responds to and performs technical rescue |
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| The fire triangle consists of: |
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| Oxygen, fuel, heat in order for fire to occur |
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| Consists of oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical, reaction in order for fire to occur. |
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| Energy possessed by a moving object |
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| Measurement of kinetic energy |
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| Amount of heat required to raise the temp of 1lb of water 1 degree f |
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| The chemical decomposition of a substance through the action of heat. |
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| is the most common source of heat in combustion reactions |
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| is generated by friction or compression |
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| is the result of a gas being compressed |
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| The transfer of heat from one body to another through direct contact. |
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| The transfer of heat from a fluid, liquid, or a gas to a solid surface. |
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| The transfer of heat as an electromagnetic waves such as light waves, radio waves, or x-rays without an intervening medium. |
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| Density of gas in relation to air |
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| The ratio of mass of a given volume a liquid compared with the mass of an equal volume of water. |
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| Transformation of a liquid to a vapor (gas) |
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| Temp at which a liquid gives off sufficient vapors to ignite but not sustain combustion. |
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| Temp at which a liquid gives of sufficient vapors to sustain combustion. |
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| Prevents the body from using oxygen at the cellular level. |
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| Ordinary Combustable materials ie: paper/wood/plastics |
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| Flammable and combustable liquids and gases |
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| Energized electrical equipment |
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| Incipient, growth, fully developed, and decay |
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| The tendency of gases to form into layers according to temperature ( also known as heat stratification or thermal balance) |
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| Condition where unburned fire gases accumulate at the top of a compartment ignite throughout the hot gas layer. ( a significant indicator of possible flashover) |
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| Rapid transition between the growth and fully developed stage of fire. |
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| between 900-1200 degree f |
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| Point at which all three elements of the fire triangle come together. |
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| Stage in which a fire grows rapidly |
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| Occurs when all available combustables are burning |
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| Point in which flaming combustion can no longer be supported due to lack of fuel or oxygen. |
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| Instanteous explosion of superheated gases that occurs when oxygen is introduced into an oxygen depleted confined space. |
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| When water converts to stream at 212f it expands at? |
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| Failure of steel structural members can be anticipated at approx |
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| Type 1 Construction (parking garage) |
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| Type II Construction (metal warehouse) |
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| area extending from the base of a wall 1 1/2 times the height of the wall. |
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| Three compontents of turnouts |
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| Outer shell, moisture barrier, and thermal barrier |
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| Four mechanism of extinguishment |
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| Smothering, cooling, chain breaking, and saponification |
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| Block creel construction: |
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| uses continous filament virgin fiber for load bearing elements suitable for life-safety applications. |
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| Class III harness (full body) |
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| A hard intake strainer requires: |
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| a minimum of 24" of water above and below to function properly. |
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| Water applied in short burst directly onto a burning fuel until the fire darkens down. |
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| 4-350gpm through 1.5"-3" hoseline |
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| 350gpm through a 2.5"-3" hoseline |
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| Three major types of fire streams patterns |
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| Is one that has been broken into coarsely divided drops (produced by a cellar nozzle) |
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