Captains Practical Test Prep 2024

Question 1

Hazmat control zones

Answer 1

Exclusion zone
Contamination reduction zone
Support zone

Question 2

Hi rise building first units responsibility

Answer 2

First engine - ic, div for fire floor, head to fire floor
Second engine- fire floor
Third engine- lobbby and pump systems
Fourth- staging two floors below
Truck- fire floor

Question 3

What is a confined space

Answer 3

Large enough to bodily entrr and do work
Has limited access/egress
Not designed for continuous occupancy

Permit required
Potential for a hazardous atmosphere
Material that can engulf entrant
Internal configuration that can trap or asphyxiate
Contains any other recognized safety hazard

Question 4

Common denominators on tragedy fires

Answer 4

On small fires or relatively quiet areas of large fires

In light fuels

Unexpected wind shifts or gusts

Fire aligns with topography and runs uphill

Critical burn period between 1400-1700

Question 5

Priority traffic

Answer 5

Used by a unit encountering an emergency not perilous to personnel but receives a high priority

Question 6

Emergency traffic declaration

Answer 6

Any unit that encounters an immediately perilous situation to responders
Three beeps or warble, emergency traffic 3 times channels are patched
Can conduct par after if needed
Once accounted for ic must cancel emergency traffic

Evacuation order is emergency traffic

Question 7

Mayday declaration

Answer 7

Lost trapped or missing ff

Mayday 3 times then
activated Emer will switch to papa

Channels will be patched

Ic will then announce emergency traffic and advise of who declared mayday

Question 8

Wildland mayday entrapment

Answer 8

LAND
Location
Actions
Needs
Designator
Should be over repeated or air to ground channel

Question 9

Organization overview

Answer 9

Admin
Operations
Support services
Prevention
Disaster preparedness

Question 10

Aom 102

Answer 10

Code of ethics
Each member shall conduct themselves in a positive, productive, and mature manor.
Shall not commit acts on or off duty that would bring discredit to the fire department

Question 11

Cooperating agencies

Answer 11

Public works
Pd
Other fds
Schools
Coast guard
Chp
Hazmat
Cal trans
Fish and game
Department of health
Water district

Question 12

Fireground factors

Answer 12

Fixed
Building
occupancy type
Arrangement

Variable
Life hazards
Fire environment
Actions
Special circumstances

Question 13

Turn down assignment

Answer 13

Unsafe working conditions
Unsafe work practices
Lack of qualifications
Using faulty equipment

Question 14

Blue card basic tactical priorities

Answer 14

Rescue
All clears

Fire control
Contained and controlled

Property conservation
Loss stopped

Question 15

Hazmat response

Answer 15

2 engines
2 ambulances
1 truck
1 bc

Question 16

Wildland dispatch responses

Answer 16

Low
3engine
1 patrol
1 bc

High
4 engines
1 patrol
1 water tender
1 bc
County copter request

Red flag
6 engines

Question 17

Sfacts

Answer 17

Survival
Fire environment
Access/egress
Construction/clearance
Time constraints
Stay or go ?