4. Loss Control Flashcards
To reduce damage from fire, smoke, water, inclement weather, or other contingencies before, during, and after a fire.
Loss Control
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Consist of those actions at eight introducing primary and secondary damage during and after the fire.
Loss control
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Any aspect of a building or its contents that has the potential for producing primary or secondary loss if there’s a fire in that building.
Loss Control Risk
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Ongoing mental evaluation process performed by the officer in charge of an incident to evaluate all influencing factors and to develop strategic goals and tactical objectives before committing personnel and equipment to a course of action.
Size up
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A strong respiratory irritant produced when Polyethylene is heated and when items contain cellulose smolder.
Used in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, herbicides, and teargas
Acrolein
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A colorless but very pungent and irritating gas given off in the thermal decomposition of material containing chlorine.
Hydrogen chloride
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A colorless gas with a characteristic Allman odor. 20 times more toxic and CO, it is an affix year and can be absorbed through the skin. Produced in the combustion of natural materials containing nitrogen.
Hydrogen cyanide
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Colorless, odorless, and nonflaming gas produced in free burning fires.
Respiratory accelerant
Carbon dioxide
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Dangerous gas liberated in the combustion of pyroxylin plastics.
Nitrogen oxides
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A highly toxic, colorless gas with a disagreeable odor of musty hay. It may be produced in refrigerants contact flame.
Phosgene
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_____ done to release heat from areas away from the fire and channel it to other portions of the building or to the outside.
Heat removal
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If there are sufficient unseen resources, firefighters should start salvage operation _____ as soon as it is safe to do so.
On the floor below the fire
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Lost control operations should continue after a structure fire has been extinguished. These post fire operations may take two forms——
Psychological loss control
Economic loss control
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