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Fire Apparatus Driver-Operator Chap. 1
Questions and Answers Fully Solved


bucket brigade - answer water relays with leather buckets passed person to person

Fire Hook - answer Used to pull down buildings to prevent fire from spreading when fire
suppression was ineffective. "Hook and ladder" Evolved from this.

Hand Pump - answer first equipment to replace bucket brigade. Made by Richard
Newsham in 1720.

In the early 1800s Philadelphia developed: - answer a municipal water supply using
wooden water mains.

The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 resulted in: - answer development of standardizing
coupling threads.

Hands pumps were a type of: - answer piston-driven, positive displacement pump
pushed up and down by firefighters

The first mechanized fire pumps were fueled by: - answer coal

Steamers in mid 1800s were transported to the fireground via - answer Horses driven
by teamsters

The term __________ was used to identify the firefighter charged with operating the
steam engine. - answerEngineer

The first elevated streams were water towers mounted on: - answerwagons and pulled
by horses.

Water tower elevated streams could raise _______ in the air. - answer30ft

The first gas powered fire apparatus emerged around _______. - answer1900. The
were small cars used by chief officers to drive to fireground.

The second gas powered apparatus was a _____________ and was steered and
propelled by a __________. - answerLadder Wagon. Single axle tractor

First gas powered apparatus to discharge water was a: - answerChemical wagon

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