Chapter 25 Flashcards
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Primary Search
Secondary Search
Primary- rapid search for life before a during actions to control the fire, a quick once over of entire accessible area checking most likely locations.
Secondary- painfully thorough search to ensure no possible victim, same company can’t conduct.
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What are both children and adults likely to do in a fire?
Adults-attempt to flee the home using escape routes they are most familiar with.
Children- panic and attempt to hide, do not normally exit through routes that put them in danger, may try to shield themselves
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Where are adults normally found? Kids?
Adult: Exit pathways, key areas behind doors, hallways, directly under or near window.
Kids: closets, try to hide or shield themselves
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What percentage of adult residential fire death occurred while victim was sleeping?
What percentage were in the bedroom?
40%
53.3%
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What id the first thing that a searching FFer must do when encountering a bed?
Stand up, make sure the bed is not a bunk bed.
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If you think you are in a bedroom but cant find a bed what should you think?
Bunk bed with bottom bed removed, stand up
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What should you check when finding a bed?
The space between the bed and the wall, get up on bed to check all nooks around the bed, sweep under.
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What I the second most common place for a victim to be found? What percentage of all fatalities?
the bathroom, 10% of all victims.
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No primary search is complete until _____
The bathroom is found and searched.
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When designing training its important to
make the environment as realistic as possible and put victims in realistic places. Also the way you work junior FFers on the training ground is the way they will work at the fire.
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What stance should we have during search? What are the advantages?
modified duck walk, out stretched lego the leg kneeling under body’s mass.
- Leaves both hands free to search room
- Won’t be as fatigued from holding you body weight
- Vertical alignment allows FFer to monitor conditions ahead.
- Weight is center toward rear
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Who should handle the TIC?
Officer or senior FFer.
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What benefit is it to turn the TIC from landscape turn by 90 degrees?
It allows you to see heat signatures on the ceiling.
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What is the best method for caring a victim?
grabbing hold of the torso, for a large victim then side by side under arm team, or webbing
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I Have Five Little Rats
Interior-remove from interior fastest most direct method
Horizontal movement if initial route blocked by FFing
Fire Escapes
Ladders-portable and aerial
Rope- could happen maybe
