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Firefighter 2 (Certification Exam) Study Guide 2024 with Complete Solutions
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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Tuesday, July 30, 2024 12:01 AMFirefighter 2 (Certification Exam) Study
Guide 2024 with Complete Solutions
Responsibilities for FF 2 - ✔️✔️Prepare reports, communicate the need for assistance,
coordinate an interior attack line team, extinguish an ignitable liquid fire, control a
flammable gas cylinder fire, protect evidence of fire cause and origin, access and
disentangle victims from motor vehicle accidents, assist special rescue team operations,
perform a fire safety survey, present fire safety information, maintain fire equipment,
perform annual service tests on fire hoses
Emergency traffic - ✔️✔️An urgent message that takes priority over all other
communications
Mayday - ✔️✔️Emergency traffic that is used for a firefighter that is downed, lost, missing
or needs immediate assistance.
Evacuation signal - ✔️✔️Warns all personnel to pull back to a safe location. Usually a
sequence of 3 blasts on an apparatus air horn.
National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) - ✔️✔️Used to compile and analyze
incident reports at the local, state, and national levels.
NIMS Guide 0001 - ✔️✔️National resource typing criteria. NIMS document that lists the
proper terminology for the common resources used at large-scale emergencies.
Strategy - ✔️✔️The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
Tactics - ✔️✔️The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic objectives.
Tasks - ✔️✔️The specific assignments that will get the job done.
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Search and rescue tools - ✔️✔️Pushing tool (short like pole), prying tool (halligan tool),
striking tool (sledgehammer or flat-head axe), cutting tool (axe), portable hand light,
thermal imaging devices, life lines.
Tool staging - ✔️✔️Placing a tarp or salvage cover on the ground at a designated location
and laying out commonly used tools and equipment.
Carabiner - ✔️✔️Used to connect one rope to another rope or to other hardware such as
an anchor plate, swivel, or pulley. NFPA 1983
Harness - ✔️✔️A piece of rescue or safety equipment made of webbing and worn by a
person.
Class 2 harness - ✔️✔️Seat harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and legs and
has a design load of 600 lbs.
Class 3 harness - ✔️✔️Full body harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and thighs
as well as secures the rescuers waist and shoulders.
Trench rescue - ✔️✔️Rescue in collapsed trenches.
Confined space rescue - ✔️✔️Rescue in tanks, silos, underground electrical vaults storm
drains and other similar structures.
Water rescue - ✔️✔️Throwing a rope to a person in the water and pulling them to shore, a
rope stretched across a stream or river, a boat going to get a victim.
Venting for life safety - ✔️✔️Venting to clear smoke, heat, and toxic gasses from the
structure to give occupants a better chance to survive.
Venting for fire containment - ✔️✔️Releasing smoke and superheated gases to the
exterior to prevent the products of combustion from spreading throughout the interior of
a building or into adjoining spaces.
Venting for property conservation - ✔️✔️Reducing the losses caused by other means
than direct fire involvement.
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