Chapter 5, 6, 7 Flashcards
What is the fifth core principle of structural firefighting?
Safety
What unites and must inform any conversation about fire behavior, building construction, strategy, tactics, and training?
Safety
What are the top two ways that firefighters die? (Not fire related)
Traffic accidents in heart attacks
What is the most dangerous and most common fire Behavior event that firefighters faced and structure fires today?
Flashover
______ is typically but not always full room involvement with fire
Flashover
In a Flash over the temperature of the fire compartment increases immediately to over______ at ceiling level
1800 degrees
The first visible sign of flashover is usually described as?
Heavy smoke under pressure
Who wrote “Fundamentals of Fire” in 1978?
Giselsson and Rosander
Keeping yourself and your crew aware of what is going on around you is called
Situation awareness
_________ is knowing exactly where you are in the structure relative to how you entered it and where the main body of fire is located
Situational awareness
_______ in firefighting occurs when firefighters have become too comfortable doing the same tactics or task over and over again, and they stop paying attention to what is really happening around them.
Complacency
_______ is the foundation upon which the other five core principles stand.
Training
What is the most important core principle?
Training
What provides the best opportunity for drilling?
Getting out of the station
What two categories do acquired structure training fall under?
Non-fire training and live fire training
