3.3.11 TRT Rope Rescue

Question 1

NFPA # associated with top rescue?

Answer 1

NFPA 1983

Question 2

What is the minimum diameter and type of rope that shall be used for rope rescues?

Answer 2

1/2”

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Question 3

Safety tag lines, guidelines, and personal safety roof edge lines must be what diameter or greater and what type?

Answer 3

1/2”

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Question 4

What is the preferred method of getting the rescuer to the victim?

Answer 4

lowering

Question 5

No member of them team goes on a rope or begins an operation until what occurs?

Answer 5

Another team member checks him.

Question 6

Every part of the rescue system must have what?

Answer 6

A backup safety

Question 7

Each team member who is going to work on a line shall check what?

Answer 7

their anchor

Question 8

If the roof does not have a parapet of at least _____

high any person working within ____ feet of the roof edge must have a tether.

Answer 8

42”

6 feet

Question 9

All rescuers will use a class ___ harness.

Answer 9

3

Question 10

Who is responsible for making sure all who go over edge have a secondary line with a secondary anchor?

Answer 10

safety officer

Question 11

The only situation in which a secondary line is not used when rapelling is when?

Answer 11

Emergency fire ground operations.

Question 12

What operation may not require the same detailed procedures as a high angle rope rescue?

Answer 12

Stokes basket tower lift