Chapter 4: Size Up: Evaluation and assessment

Question 1

A continuous process that actually begins before an incident is reported and continues throughout the incident.

Answer 1

Size up

Question 2

Local SOP/S0Gs will generally establish the minimum information that is given during a dispatch broadcast, including:

Answer 2

Time
Situation
Location
Resources dispatched

Question 3

Knowing the type of_______can help you project potential fire growth, potential direction of fire travel, and ways to use the structure to protect occupants.

Answer 3

Construction

Question 4

maintain___________and continually reassess the situation to prevent from developing Tunnel vision.

Answer 4

Situational awareness

Question 5

Your_____may also influence your perceptions.

Answer 5

Emotions

Question 6

Your ability to predict what might happen next at a scene is based on your knowledge and experience of the following;

Answer 6

Fire behavior
Building construction
Fire fighting activities

Question 7

When is the most intense part of the size a process?

Answer 7

When you are the first resource to arrive at the emergency incident scene

Question 8

Firefighters should learn how to read smoke at a fire.The quantity and movement of smoke will indicate factors, including:

Answer 8

• Potential fuels involved in potential hazards to responders
• Locations in stage of the fire, and it’s direction of travel

Question 9

What color smoke indicates that paralysis is occurring in areas adjacent to the main body of fire?

Answer 9

White smoke

Question 10

What color smoke is common in mid stage heating as moisture mixes with the gas is in carbon as paralysis increases.

Answer 10

Brown small

Question 11

_______________ is an indication of burning wood, whether unfinished found largely in attics, or finished as found in structural wood members.

Answer 11

Brown smoke

Question 12

What color of smoke indicates a combination of mixing?

Answer 12

Gray smoke

Question 13

What color smoke contains high quantities of carbon particles and is also an indicator of the amount of insulation available at the seat of fire.

Answer 13

Black smoke

Question 14

Thin,____is the direct result of heat from a Flame.

Answer 14

Black Smoke

Question 15

Unusual color smoke should give personal an indication that?

Answer 15

Different extinguishing agent may be needed

Question 16

Flammable metals in chemicals will give off______________colors of smoke as they burn.

Answer 16

Uncharacteristic

Question 17

The darker and more turbulent the smokers, the closer you are to A?

Answer 17

Rapidfire event

Question 18

Thick black smoke has lots of?

Answer 18

Heat

Question 19

Three common types of movement in smoke are?

Answer 19

Floating or hanging
Volume pushed
Heat pushed

Question 20

What does it mean when smoke is floating or hanging (lost its heat)

Answer 20

Smoke is the same temperature as the air around it.

Question 21

_____Is characterized by its speed and direction, which can be described as turbulent flow or Luminar flow.

Answer 21

Heat pushed smoke

Question 22

Bass, turbulent, or active smoke means there is?

Answer 22

An established working fire

Question 23

What does the acronym CARA mean

Answer 23

Conditions
Actions
Resources
Air

Question 24

What does the acronym LIP mean?Three priorities as an incident, in order of importance.

Answer 24

Life safety
Incident stabilization
Property conservation

Question 25

Type of incident size up that evaluate whether in incident should be treated as a rescue or recovery.

Answer 25

Occupant survival profile

Question 26

In conducting occupant survivability profiling, the IC asks the following questions:

Answer 26

• Our occupant suspected of or known to be trapped?

* Is it reasonable to assume that the occupants are still alive?

Question 27

Means of egress that you should consider are?

Answer 27

Doors
Windows
Stairs
Fire escapes
Dead end corridors

Question 28

Special hazardous conditions are really visible during your size. Your pre-incident planning should contain any information regarding these hazards, which can tell you?

Answer 28

Alterations
Change in occupancy or use
Storage

Question 29

Knowing firefighters life safety hazards is your primary concern. This knowledge includes:

Answer 29

Air management
Rehabilitation
Crew resources

Question 30

What does (ESTI) mean?

Answer 30

End of service time indicator

Question 31

Single-family dwellings apartments hotels motels dormitories and boarding houses are examples of what kind of occupancy type?

Answer 31

Residential occupancy type

Question 32

A______occupancy is a building or structure, or any portion thereof that is used for office, professional, or service type __________.

Answer 32

Business Occupancy type

Question 33

What type of occupancy is generally defined as any building that is used to display or sell merchandise, including retail locations.

Answer 33

Mercantile occupancy type

Question 34

What type of occupancy is a building use for two or more occupancy types, classified within different occupancy groups.

Answer 34

Mixed occupancy type

Question 35

Personnel should be aware of the type of content and it’s combustibility/flammability present at_____, such as warehouses, storage units, and grain elevators.

Answer 35

Industrial and storage occupancies

Question 36

________Occupancies include hospitals, nursing homes, day care centers, and detention/correctional institutions.

Answer 36

Institutional occupancy type

Question 37

An ________occupancy is defined as a building or structure, or any portion thereof, that is used for the gathering of 50 or more persons.

Answer 37

Assembly occupancy type

Question 38

___________Occupancy’s, such as public and private schools and technical schools, Are rarely occupied between midnight and 6 AM.

Answer 38

Educational occupancy type