4. Search and Rescue

Question 1

During a search, what is a better option to having an oriented officer in the doorway, while firefighters search a room?

Answer 1

It is safer to have the officer go into the room, close the door, and have the firefighter/firefighters search the room with the officer as a orienter door control firefighter.

Question 2

When looking under smoke with a good light, it is possible to ____

Answer 2

see across a fairly large room in smoky conditions to locate a victim.

Question 3

____ is the key to success while searching in today’s fires.

Answer 3

Controlling the doors

Question 4

A good light in a smoky atmosphere allows ____

Answer 4

us to see across a fairly large room in smoky conditions to locate a victim.

Question 5

____ is the key to success while searching in today’s fires.

Answer 5

Controlling the doors

Question 6

The first options should be for the search team to ____. Then they can start searching the adjacent rooms closest to the fire room where occupants are in the most danger. They can work back toward the room farthest from the fire.

Answer 6

• control the fire room door to isolate the fire and interrupt its flow path

Question 7

The ____ needs to be thought of as the most dangerous place for firefighters because ____.

Answer 7

• hallway

* it’s directly in the flow path between the fire and the door where we typically enter the structure.

Question 8

Search crew leaders operating in the hallway should utilize ____ to monitor conditions and must ____ in unsafe conditions when a fire attack is not nearby.

Answer 8

• thermal imaging camera (TIC)

* seek refuge

Question 9

Once a room to be searched is entered, ____ and begin the search. If the room is isolated from the fire, it is safe to ____. This will provide ____, which increases visibility and increases survivability for any trapped victims.

Answer 9

• close the door
• ventilate the room’s window.
• lift for smoke

Question 10

If a victim is found and the crew is able to isolate themselves and a victim into that room, think of ____

Answer 10

different options for victim removal. Search crews should be aware of the conditions to which they may be exposing unprotected victims.

Question 11

Numbering the walls is beneficial to ____

Answer 11

staying oriented while searching.

Question 12

Wall numbering for searches.

Answer 12

Wall 1 is the wall shared with the hallway and then proceeding to the left/clockwise

Question 13

The authors prefer to search with hands out in front and feet on the walls because ____

Answer 13

it gives them an enhanced tactile perception while conducting a search.

Question 14

If greater reach is needed during a search, ____ to get farther out into a room.

Answer 14

place the tool against the wall and place a foot on the tool

Question 15

The search should get as close to the fire room as possible and ____, then search from the fire back to the entry point.

Answer 15

control the fire room door

Question 16

If you are assigned to search you must complete a size up that is specific to search. This should include ____, and ____

Answer 16

• identifying the areas of highest priority

* areas where a victim is most likely to be found

Question 17

We have always been taught that the area to find the victims is ____. While these areas are still a priority, we need to put a higher priority into ____. Most often ____ is the fastest way into these areas.

Answer 17

• within the same path that they utilize to move under normal conditions: entrances, exits, stairwells, and hallways.
• the actual sleeping areas
• VEIS

Question 18

Understanding and knowing ____ will help you identify high priority areas for search. Utilizing this knowledge while analyzing ____ and ____ will tell you which are the high risk areas: those areas where ____, and must be searched first.

Answer 18

• the building construction in your district
• fire behavior, and reading the smoke
• fire will be showing next

Question 19

During VEIS, when you break the glass, you must ____

Answer 19

be ready to act.

Question 20

During VEIS, before entering the window we must ____.

Answer 20

check the floor to make sure we have a stable floor to step on. Before you sound the floor you should sweep the floor with your tool. Many victims will be found immediately under the window.

Question 21

During VEIS, what is the only time you should abandon a right or left hand search pattern?

Answer 21

If you can see the door, get across the room and close the door.

Question 22

During VEIS, if you are faced with a decision to go left or right, ____

Answer 22

always go away from the outside corner of the building. This tactic will get you to the door fastest in 99% of the bedrooms in America.

Question 23

Every search should be done with the same goal and mindset: ____

Answer 23

to quickly and efficiently enter the building and quickly search all areas to find and remove any victim.

Question 24

You must always search with the mindset that ____

Answer 24

someone is trapped or lost and needs you to find them.

Question 25

You can’t trip if ____, and that by ____ you will be in the best possible position to find the victim.

Answer 25

crawling, crawling

Question 26

Furniture layout allows you to ____ while you are searching and also allows you to ____.

Answer 26

• orient yourself
• reach the center of the room
  We want to map the room, note the location of windows, and stay on the wall, but we have no issue leaving the wall to go around a couch or search around a coffee table.

Question 27

You should make a habit that before you chock a door open you ____

Answer 27

check behind it.