Chapter 1: Introduction Flashcards
Without it, fire fighters are reduced to just reacting to a fire rather than being prepared for its many potential hazards
Prefire planning
include diagrams of buildings, notations of stairs and utilities, hazard contents, fire hydrants locations and fire protection systems
Preplan
studying the prefire plan info that has been gathered to ID specific construction issues/concerns and interactions. It allows us to anticipate problems
Prefire analysis
Websites have been developed to collect and disseminate info about fireground “near-misses.”
www. firefighterclosecalls.com &
www. firefighternearmiss.com
“After-action” reports that show when a firefighter has been killed created by?
NIOSH
The explosion of_______ across the US has tremendously increased the danger to today’s firefighters.
lightweight construction
should be performed on any lightweight building with an advanced fire
A risk-benefit analysis
