202.05C Air Management Flashcards
What is the maximum distance a crew will enter any building?
150ft
When operating on a horizontal standpipe, are gated Y devices to be taken inside a building?
NO
How much of a FF’s air supply is the “working and exiting air”?
75%
What is the remaining 25% of the FF’s air supply used for?
emergency reserve to be used only in the event an emergency occurs while exiting such as becoming lost, trapped, or entangled upon exiting the hazard zone.
Company officers shall frequently assess their crew’s air consumption rates and decide the crew’s exit time based on what?
individual with the greatest assumed air consumption rate.
T/F The incident commander shall consider air management a critical fireground factor when evaluating the risk management profile of a building, performing size-up, and determining the strategy?
True
Command will assist companies in air management by?
- accountability
- maintaining awareness of crews working time
- ensuring adequate tactical reserves
- assigning crews to multiple points of egress
- relieving and rotating crews as needed
What does the acronym PACAN mean?
- Position
- Air status
- Conditions
- Actions
- Needs
What are the benchmarks for PACAN reports?
- 10 min elapsed time on air
- all clear
- fire control
- loss stopped
How does Command enhance FF safety by keeping a tactical reserve of companies on scene?
An extra company should be assigned to a forward “on-deck” position within each sector to facilitate rapid relief and replacement of companies that are exiting the
hazard zone. Company is also RIC
How does a Company Officer ensure his crew has a “round trip ticket” into and out of the hazard zone?
Prior to entry into the hazard zone, the company officer will brief his/her crew on the plan for achieving the tactical objectives including exiting the hazard zone together
T/F It is ok to continue working in the hazard zone with your low air alarm sounding?
False All members of the crew will exit prior to the low air alarm sounding on the SCBA.
What is an Air Emergency defined as?
“anytime the breathing apparatus being used cannot
deliver air to the user as designed; whether by mechanical failure or if the individual has consumed the air supply beyond the designed work cycle, or an individual becomes lost or trapped within an IDHL environment regardless of air supply”.
In regards to air management, what is an “immediate action” item?
described as notifying command of low-air alarm activation and immediately exiting the IDLH atmosphere intact as a crew and notifying command that you are out with a PAR after exiting.
When remaining air supply in the SCBA cylinder reaches the 18% to 15% range a May-Day should be called if personnel are still inside an IDLH atmosphere and will be unable to exit within ____ minutes.
5
