ch 1 Flashcards
From the communications center, this individual takes the calls from the public, sends appropriate units to the scene, assists callers with treatment instructions until the EMS unit arrives, and assists the incident commander with needed resources.
911 dispatcher / telecommunicator
A member of EMS who can perform limited procedures that usually fall between those provided by an EMT and those provided by a paramedic, including IV therapy, interpretation of cardiac rhythms, defibrillation, and airway intubation.
Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
An individual who takes firefighting actions to prevent, control, or extinguish fire involved or adjacent to an aircraft for the purpose of maintaining maximum escape routes for occupants using normal and emergency routes for
egress. (NFPA 414)
Aircraft/crash rescue fire fighter
A midlevel chief who often has a functional area of responsibility, such as training, and who answers directly to the fire chief.
Assistant or division chief
An organization, office, or individual responsible for enforcing the requirements of a code or standard or for approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure. (NFPA 1, 1072)
Authority having jurisdiction
Covering a fire to ensure low burning.
Banked
Usually the first level of fire chief. These chiefs are often in charge of running calls and supervising multiple stations or districts within a city; they are usually the officer in charge of a single-alarm working fire.
Battalion chief
The second rank of promotion in the fire service, between the lieutenant and the battalion chief.
These individuals are responsible for managing a fire company and for coordinating the activities of that company among the other shifts.
Captain
A rank structure, spanning the fire fighter through the fire chief, for managing a fire department and fire-ground operations.
Chain of command
The top position in the fire department. The fire chief has ultimate
responsibility for the fire department and usually answers directly to the mayor
or other designated public official.
Chief of the department
An obsolete amplification device that enabled a chief officer to give orders to
fire fighters during an emergency. Also called a bugle, it was a precursor to a
bullhorn and portable radios.
Chief’s trumpet
Programs, actions, and services used by a community, which prevent or
mitigate the loss of life, property, and resources associated with life safety,
fire, and other disasters within a community. (NFPA 1035)
Community risk reduction
The individual responsible for command of a company, a designation not
specific to any particular fire department rank (can be a fire fighter,
lieutenant, captain, or chief officer, if responsible for command of a single
company). (NFPA 1026)
Company officer
The guidelines that a department sets for fire fighters to work within.
Discipline
Breaking down an incident or task into a series of smaller, more manageable
tasks and assigning personnel to complete those tasks.
Division of labor
To take off an item of clothing or equipment.
Doff
To put on an item of clothing or equipment.
Don
The first trained professional, such as a police officer, fire fighter, lifeguard, or
other rescuer, to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical
assistance. They have basic training and often perform in an assistant role
within the ambulance.
Emergency Medical Responder
A company that may be made up of medical units and first-response vehicles.
Members of this company respond to and assist in the transport of medical and
trauma victims to medical facilities. They often have medications,
defibrillators, and paramedics who can stabilize a critical patient.
Emergency medical services company
Personnel who are responsible for administering prehospital care to people who
are sick and injured. Prehospital calls make up the majority of responses in
most fire departments, and in some organizations, these personnel are crossed-
trained as fire fighters.
Emergency medical services personnel
EMS personnel who account for most of the EMS providers in the United States.
This type of provider has training in basic emergency care skills, including
oxygen therapy, bleeding control, CPR, automated external defibrillation, use
of basic airway devices, and assisting patients with certain medications.
Emergency Medical Technician
The individual who performs maintenance, diagnosis, and repair on emergency
vehicles.
Emergency vehicle technician
A group of fire fighters who work as a unit and are equipped with one or more
pumping engines that have rated capacities of 2839 L/min (750 gpm) or more.
(NFPA 1410)
: Engine company
The individual who has demonstrated the ability to coordinate, create,
administer, prepare, deliver, and evaluate educational programs and
information.
Fire and life safety educator
A fire department member who is authorized by the authority having
jurisdiction to drive, operate, or both drive and operate fire department
vehicles. (NFPA 1451)
Fire apparatus driver/operator
A person, at the first level of progression as defined in Chapter 4 of NFPA 1001,
who has demonstrated the knowledge and skills to function as an integral
member of a firefighting team under direct supervision in hazardous conditions.
(NFPA 1001)
: Fire Fighter I
