Chapter 1 - The Fire Service Flashcards
From the communications center, the dispatcher takes the call 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 approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure (NFPA 1072)
Authority having jurisdiction
Covering a fire to ensure low burning
Banked
The second rank of promotion in the fire service, between lieutenant and the district/battalion chief. They 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. This person 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, 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, LT, CPT, chief officer, if responsible for command of a single company). (NFPA 1026)
Company Officer
A code document jointly developed by people representing various organizations and interests. NFPA codes and standards are consensus documents
Consensus documents
The guidelines that a department sets for fire fighters to work within
Discipline (But SOP’s seems correct?)
Usually the first level of fire chief. These are often in charge of running calls and supervising multiple stations or districts within a city. He or she is usually the officer in charge of a single alarm working fire
District/Battalion Chief
Breaking down an incident or task into a series of smaller, more manageable tasks and assigning personnel to complete those tasks
Division of labour
To take off an item of clothing or equipment
Doff
To put on an item of clothing
Don
The first trained professional, such as a police officer, firefighter, 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, they are cross-trained as fire-fighters
Emergency Medical Services Personnel
EMS personnel who account for most of the EMS providers in the US. This level has training in basic emergency care skills, including oxygen therapy, bleeding control, CPR, AED, use of basic airway devices and assisting patients with certain medications.
EMT’s
The individual who performs maintenance, diagnosis and repair on emergency vehicles
Emergency Vehicle Technician
A group of firefighters who work as a unit and are equipped with one or more pumping engines that have rated capacities of 2839L/min (750gpm) or more. (NFPA 1410)
Engine or Pump Company
The individual who was demonstrated the ability to coordinate, create, administer, prepare, deliver and evaluate educational programs and information
Fire and Life-Safety Educator
A fire dept member who is authorized by the authority having jurisdiction to drive, operate or both drive and operate fire dept vehicles
Fire Apparatus Driver
A person, at the first level of progression as defined in Ch. 4 of NFPA 1001, who was 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
