Responsibilities for FF 2 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔An urgent message that takes priority over all other
communications
Mayday - correct answer ✔✔Emergency traffic that is used for a firefighter that is downed, lost, missing
or needs immediate assistance.
Evacuation signal - correct answer ✔✔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) - correct answer ✔✔Used to compile and analyze
incident reports at the local, state, and national levels.
NIMS Guide 0001 - correct answer ✔✔National resource typing criteria. NIMS document that lists the
proper terminology for the common resources used at large-scale emergencies.
Strategy - correct answer ✔✔The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
Tactics - correct answer ✔✔The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic objectives.
Tasks - correct answer ✔✔The specific assignments that will get the job done.
, Search and rescue tools - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔Placing a tarp or salvage cover on the ground at a designated location
and laying out commonly used tools and equipment.
Carabiner - correct answer ✔✔Used to connect one rope to another rope or to other hardware such as
an anchor plate, swivel, or pulley. NFPA 1983
Harness - correct answer ✔✔A piece of rescue or safety equipment made of webbing and worn by a
person.
Class 2 harness - correct answer ✔✔Seat harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and legs and has a
design load of 600 lbs.
Class 3 harness - correct answer ✔✔Full body harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and thighs as
well as secures the rescuers waist and shoulders.
Trench rescue - correct answer ✔✔Rescue in collapsed trenches.
Confined space rescue - correct answer ✔✔Rescue in tanks, silos, underground electrical vaults storm
drains and other similar structures.
Water rescue - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔Venting to clear smoke, heat, and toxic gasses from the
structure to give occupants a better chance to survive.
Venting for fire containment - correct answer ✔✔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.
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