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what is the fire triangle? - answer✔✔oxygen, fuel, and heat
what is the fire tetrahedron? - answer✔✔oxygen, fuel, heat, and a self-sustained chemical chain
reaction
what is potential energy? - answer✔✔stored energy possessed by an object that can be released
in the future to perform work
what is kinetic energy? - answer✔✔the energy possessed by a moving object
what is the british thermal unit (BTU)? - answer✔✔the amount of heat required to raise the
temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree fahrenheit
what is NFPA 1971 - answer✔✔standard on protective ensembles for structural fire fighting and
proximity fire fighting
what is ANSI standard Z87.1 - answer✔✔practice for occupational and educational eye and face
protection
what are the three components of a turnout coat? - answer✔✔outer shell, moisture barrier, and
thermal barrier
what does DRD stand for? - answer✔✔drag rescue device
what does IDLH stand for? - answer✔✔immediately dangerous to life and health
what are four common respiratory hazards associated with fires and other emergencies? -
answer✔✔oxygen deficiency, elevated temperatures, smoke, and toxic atmospheres
what does PPE stand for? - answer✔✔personal protective equipment
according to NFPA 1971, full PPE consists of the following? - answer✔✔helmet, hood, coat,
pants, gloves, and boots
the following PPE is not part of NFPA 1971 but required by NFPA 1500? - answer✔✔eye
protection, hearing protection, self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), and personal alert
safety system (PASS)
what are the four basic SCBA componets? - answer✔✔harness assembly, air cylinder assembly,
regulator assembly, and face piece assembly
air cylinders must be stamped or labeled with the dates of? - answer✔✔manufacture, and
hydrostatic test
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according to both the u.s. department of transportation and transport canada, steel and aluminum
air cylinders must be tested every __ years and composite air cylinders every __ years? -
answer✔✔5 and 3
what is a class B fire? - answer✔✔flammable and combustible liquids, gases, and greases such
as alcohol, cooking oils, gasoline, lubricating oils, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
what is a class C fire? - answer✔✔class A or class B fires created by electrical energy
what is a class D fire? - answer✔✔combustible metals and alloys such as lithium, magnesium,
potassium, and sodium
what is a fire extinguisher? - answer✔✔a portable fire fighting device designed to combat
incipient fires
every fire extinguisher extinguishes fire by at least one of the following mechanisms? -
answer✔✔smothering, cooling, chain breaking, and saponification
what is NFPA 10? - answer✔✔standard for portable fire extinguishers
what is a class A fire? - answer✔✔ordinary combustibles such as textiles, paper, plastic, rubber,
and wood
what is a class K fire? - answer✔✔combustible cooking oils
what does AFFF stand for? - answer✔✔aqueous film forming foam
what is the PASS method for a fire extinguisher? - answer✔✔pull, aim, squeeze, and sweep
what is ventilation? - answer✔✔the systematic removal of heated air, smoke, and fire gases from
a burning building and replacing them with cooler air
what is conduction? - answer✔✔the transfer of heat within a body or to another body by direct
contact
what three mechanisms can heat be transferred from one body to another? -
answer✔✔conduction, convection, and radiation
what is convection? - answer✔✔the transfer of heat energy by the movement of heated fluids or
gases, usually in an upward direction
what is radiation? - answer✔✔the transmission or transfer of heat energy from one body to
another body at a lower temperature through intervening space by electromagnetic waves, such
as infrared thermal waves, radio, or x-rays.
what are the stages of fire development? - answer✔✔incipient, growth, fully developed, decay
