Chapter 25 Assisting Special Rescue Teams Flashcards
The control zone immediately surrounding hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) incidents, which extends far enough to prevent adverse effects of hazards to personnel outside the zone and where only personnel who are trained, equipped, and authorized to do assigned work are permitted to enter.
Hot Zone
Matter (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy that when released is capable of creating harm to people, the environment, and property, including weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as defined in 18 U.S. Code, Section 2332a, as well as any other criminal use thereof, such as illicit labs, environmental crimes, or industrial sabotage.
Hazardous material
A group of rescuers specially trained in the various disciplines of technical rescue.
Technical rescue team
A rope rescue operation where the angle of the slope is greater than 45 degrees. In this scenario, rescuers depend on life safety rope rather than a fixed support surface such as the ground.
High-angle ops
A condition in which a victim is trapped by debris, soil, or other material and is unable to extricate himself or herself.
Entrapment
A subsequent collapse in a building or excavation
Secondary collapse
The process of locating and removing a victim from the wilderness
Wilderness search and rescue
An atmosphere-supplying respirator for which the source of breathing air is not designed to be carried by the user. Also known as an air-line respirator
Supplied-air respirator
An electromechanical device for the production of electricity.
Generator
Rope dedicated solely for the purpose of supporting people during rescue, firefighting, other emergency operations, or during training evolutions.
Life safety rope
A pile of excavated soil next to the excavation or trench
Spoil pile
Methods of ensuring that electricity and other utilities have been shut down and switches are “locked” so that they cannot be switched on, so as to prevent flow of power or gases into the area where rescue is being conducted
Lockout and tag out systems
A system that readily identifies both the location and function of all members operating at an incident scene
Personnel accountability system
A device manufactured in accordance with U.S. Coast Guard specifications that provides supplemental flotation for persons in the water.
Personal flotation device
Complex rescue incidents requiring specially trained personnel and special equipment to complete the mission
Technical rescue incident
A rope rescue operation on a mildly sloping surface (less than 45 degrees) or flat land. In this scenario, fire fighters depend on the ground for their primary support, and the rope system is a secondary means of support.
Low angle ops
The control zone outside the hot zone where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot zone support take place.
Warm zone
A structure such as a metal hydraulic, pneumatic/mechanical, or timber system that supports the sides of an excavation and is designed to prevent cave-ins
Shoring
Signage required to be placed on all four sides of highway transport vehicles, railroad tank cars, and other forms of hazardous materials transportation that identifies the hazardous contents of the vehicle, using a standardized system: 273-mm by 273-mm (10¾-in. by 10¾-in.) diamond-shaped indicators
Placards
An auxiliary equipment system item; load-bearing connector with a self-closing gate used to join other components of life safety rope
Carabiner
The process of securing a victim in a transfer device, with regard to existing and potential injuries or illness, so as to prevent further harm during movement
Packaging
An area large enough and so configured that a member can bodily enter and perform assigned work but that has limited or restricted means for entry and exit and is not designed for continuous human occupancy
Confined space
The control zone of hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) incidents that contains the incident command post and such other support functions as are deemed necessary to control the incident
Cold zone
