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The Fire Officer has access to sensitive documents, including exposure and injury reports. What ensures that these documents are kept secure?

a. Reports are kept in a secure location with access provided to only senior officers
b. complying with all freedom of information requests in a timely manner
c. Reports and related information are kept confidential with access to only those personnel with a legal right
d. Report filing and storage is delegated to subordinate firefighters to mitigate liability concerns

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C. Reports and related information are kept confidential with access to only those personnel with a legal right

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During an incident, a fire officer notices that an exit door is blocked in an assembly occupancy. Which principle of life safety does the blocked door highlight?

A. Means of Egress
B. Building services
C. Fire Protection Systems
D. Compartmentation

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A. Means of Egress

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How can cultural diversity impact the success of the fire service?

A. Avoids inclusion in the fire service organization
B. Creates language barriers encountered during fire station tours
C. Improves smoke alarm program development
D. Promotes proactive relationships between the fire service and the community

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D. Promotes proactive relationships between the fire service and the community

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Which of the following is part of the five C’s for effective radio communication?

A. Having the capacity to command an emergency scene
B. Developing an incident action plan and communicating it to personnel face to face
C. Developing clear, concise and confident messages
D. Ensuring a conscious awareness of all warm zone hazards at an emergency

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C. Developing clear, concise and confident messages

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What are the five C’s for effective radio communications?

A. Conciseness, clarity, confidence, control, capability
B. Control, corrosiveness, capability, confidence, cooperation
C. Control, capability, chemistry, codes, cleanliness
D. Conciseness, control, cleanliness, capability, confidence

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A. Conciseness, clarity, confidence, control, capability

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Understanding, remembering and evaluating are components of which interpersonal communication skill?

A. Scheduling
B. Report Writing
C. Listening
D. Lecturing

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C. Listening

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Which of the following identify leadership and decision making styles?

A. Group and supervisory
B. Independent and situational
C. Democratic and transformational
D. Formal and operational

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C. Democratic and Transformational

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A leader must acquire techniques to allow them to effectively assign tasks. The skills approach identifies what required skills?

A. Adaptation, knowledge, self-confidence
B. Personnel, organizational, procedural
C. Human, conceptual, organizational
D. Technical, human, conceptual

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D. Technical, human, conceptual

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During a training evolution, the fire officer considers the sender, the message and the receiver. What are these components of?

A. Chains of command
B. Active listening
C. Communication model
D. Training procedures

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C. Communication model

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What is a lack of clear language or visual distractions considered during verbal communications?

A. Vocal tone
B. Attending
C. Opportunities
D. Interference

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D. Interference

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Upon recognizing signs and symptoms of a stress related behavioral concern with a crew member, what first reaction is considered appropriate for a fire officer to take?

A. Assume the crew member is not fit for duty
B. Connect with the employee to best understand and support the concern
C. Document the issue and provide a report to their superior officer
D. Wait to see if the concern progresses over time

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B. Connect with the employee to best understand and support the concern

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A reasonable suspicion is made from factual evidence that a crew member is contravening the organization’s zero tolerance policy on substance abuse while on-duty. What immediate action does the fire officer take?

A. Interview other crew members to determine if the crew member is suffering from stress in their personal or professional life
B. Refer the crew member to the employee assistance program
C. Provide for and ensure the safety of the crew member and immediately notify a senior officer or the fire chief
D. Counsel the employee and ask for specific details about their situation

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C. Provide for and ensure the safety of the crew member and immediately notify a senior officer or the fire chief

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A procedure outlines the steps that must be performed in order to properly follow an organizational policy. What is a policy?

A. Quality of an organization’s relationship with individuals who have contact with the organization
B. Organizational guide that is developed and adopted as a basis for decision making
C. Doctrine holding individuals responsible ethically for actions they may take or do not take with foreseen results
D. Statement that identifies a general philosophy

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B. Organizational guide that is developed and adopted as a basis for decision making

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A supervisor used S.M.A.R.T. (specific, measurable, action oriented, relevant and time-sensitive) as a guide for which activity?

A. Developing an initial radio report
B. Creating a performance evaluation template
C. Formulating an administrative procedure
D. Establishing goals and objectives

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D. Establishing goals and objectives

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What is the first step in the planning process model?

A. Implement
B. Develop
C. Identify
D. Design

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C. Identify

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Community Risk Reduction (CRR) are created to identify and prioritize local risks, followed by programs that mitigate hazards to public safety. What are important components of CRR plans?

A. Disaster preparedness programs, home safety plans and fire station tours
B. Fire incident reporting, records management and budget preparations
C. Fire and life safety programs, surveys and public presentations
D. Public education on fire safety, private fire safety programs and fire service training presentations

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C. Fire and life safety programs, surveys and public presentations

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A local citizen comes into the fire station upset and complaining about the fire apparatus air horn/siren sounding all day and night, disrupting them. How does the fire officer address this concern?

A. Listen to the citizen and offer to investigate by following department policies
B. Promise that the situation will never happen again
C. Direct the citizen to contact city/town hall to express their concern and leave the fire station
D. Dismiss the concern as an overreaction, and let the citizen know that nothing can be done

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A. Listen to the citizen and offer to investigate by following department policies

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A fire officer has responded to an incident in which the department standard operating procedures (SOP’s) did not adequately address the needs of the incident. What is the first step in revising the SOP?

A. Forward the concerns to the joint health and safety committee
B. Forward the concerns to the fire chief
C. Deviate from the SOP
D. Identify the problem or concern

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D. Identify the problem or concern

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How can a fire officer reinforce the importance of following policy?

A. Assume all policy violations require immediate disciplinary action
B. Enforcing only those policies that hey feel are relevant
C. Believing that all personnel are aware of every policy and all of their details
D. Acting as a role model and following policy themselves

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D. Acting as a role model and following policy themselves

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How does the fire officer support the budgetary needs for training equipment in the fire service?

A. Seeking approval after purchasing equipment
B. Ordering equipment quickly, without justifying its requirement
C. Dismissing the equipment needed and making the assumption that another member of the organization will address the issue
D. Identifying equipment needed and justifying its requirement

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D. Identifying equipment needed and justifying its requirement

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What is the fire officer’s role in the fire service budget process?

A. Providing budget details to the public for review
B. Preparing annual fire service organization draft operating and capital budgets
C. Preparing budget requests for unit/company level need(s)
D. Approving budget requests

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C. Preparing budget requests for unit/company level need(s)

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What organizational concept does unity of command refer to?

A. Development of goals and objectives for incident commanders
B. Each person within the organization reports to only one designated authority
C. Emergency incidents are commanded by more than one individual
D. The fire chief is the only decision maker in the organization

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B. Each person within the organization reports to only one designated authority

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What is the primary reason for activity records and incident response reports/data?

A. Develop a mission statement, vision and goals
B. Provide a basis for planning and justifying budget requests
C. Maintain compliance with NFPA standards
D. Improve interpretation and analytical skills of fire officers

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B. Provide a basis for planning and justifying budget requests

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Which of the following details the requirements for a posted occupant load within an assembly occupancy classification?

A. Section 21 Guidance Notes
B. Ontario Building Code
C. NFPA 220 Standard on types of building construction
D. Fire protection and prevention act

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B. Ontario Building Code

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Which of the following are common categories inspected in all occupancies?

A. Egress, protection systems, storage
B. Violations, egress, building age
C. Occupancy, furnishings, utilities
D. Construction type, water supply, hours of operation

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A. Egress, protection systems, storage

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When inspecting a building, what does the term occupancy classification refer to?

A. Specific number of people in the building
B. How many times the building has been previously inspected
C. Intended use of the building
D. Construction materials used in the building

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C. Intended use of the building

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When can fire service organization personnel enter private property to conduct an inspection?

A. Only when a fire has occurred at the property
B. At any time the fire service organization deems appropriate
C. When permission has been obtained from the property owner
D. When the chief fire official has indicated they want the inspection to occur

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C. When permission has been obtained from the property owner

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Fire creates a variety of dangerous conditions within buildings. What dangerous condition is created as a reaction to fire in a building?

A. Limited access to basement
B. Doors that create separation to temperature, heat and fuel
C. Potential collapse
D. Fuel-limited fire

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C. Potential collapse

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Which NFPA standard provides a widely recognized method for indicating the presence of hazardous materials at commercial, manufacturing, institutional and fixed-storage facility?

A. NFPA 704
B. NFPA 471
C. NFPA 10
D. NFPA 1072

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NFPA 704

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Which of the following describes how inspection documentation is to be recorded?

A. Any way the inspector deems necessary
B. Including personal opinion/assumptions of the inspector
C. Recorded only if a violation is discovered
D. Completely, accurately and legibly

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D. Completely, accurately and legibly

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How often should home owners test smoke alarms?

A. Never. Only certified agencies may test these systems
B. Annually
C. Monthly
D. Quarterly

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C. Monthly

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When a fire scene must be secured, what does the fire officer ensure when the law enforcement officials and fire investigators are not available?

A. Remove evidence from the fire scene and place it on an on-scene fire apparatus to ensure no further damage is caused
B. Assign the property owner to secure the fire scene evidence
C. Document the fire scene and take the evidence to the fire station to be stored
D. Ensure the fire scene is continuously maintained/supervised by the fire service organization

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D. Ensure the fire scene is continuously maintained/supervised by the fire service organization

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Direct, circumstantial and physical are the three primary types of which of the following?

A. investigations
B. Evidence
C. Incidents
D. Evaluations

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B. Evidence

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Objects that are available for inspections, such as fuel packages in the area of origin are examples of what classification of evidence?

A. Direct
B. Physical or tangible
C. investigative
D. Circumstantial

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B. Physical or tangible

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When evidence at a fire scene is handled by a member of the fire service organization, what does that individual become part of?

A. Circumstantial evidence
B. Inspection report
C. Salvage operations
D. Chain of custody

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D. Chain of custody

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Which of the following is defined as the identification, assessment, analysis and control of risk?

A. Accountability
B. Incident command system
C. Risk management
D. Community risk reduction

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C. Risk management

37
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The fire officer selects to investigate, fast-attack or establish a command post upon arrival at the fire scene of a fire incident. What are these command choices known as?

A. Incident action plans
B. On-scene or initial radio reports
C. Modes
D. Strategies

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C. Modes

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Upon arrival at a fire incident, what must the first arriving fire officer make every effort to perform as part of their size-up?

A. Performance evaluation of personnel
B. 360 degree check
C. Pre-incident survey
D. A primary search

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B. 360 degree check

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What is essential for functional elements, position titles, facilities and resources within any command system?

A. Common terminology
B. Complex nomenclature
C. Incident action plan
D. Span of control

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A. Common terminology

40
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Incident stabilization, life safety, and property conservation are always considered during incident scene management. What are these considerations referred to as?

A. Strategies
B. Tactical priorities
C. Incident action plans
D. Modes

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A. Strategies

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What is the goal of apparatus placement and positioning at an emergency scene/incident?

A. Locate all potential water sources
B. Declare the incident’s strategy
C. Get vehicles that need to be closest to the operation into position
D. Define scene/perimeter control

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C. Get vehicles that need to be closest to the operation into position

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Upon arriving first at a working fire, the fire officer from a pump apparatus is advised that there is a person trapped in a bedroom within the structure. Which of the following command modes will the fire officer select?

A. Emergency traffic
B. Command post
C. Fast attack
D. Investigating

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C. Fast attack

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A fire officer has been assigned to manage several companies that are working together to coordinate ventilation in a multi-story apartment building. What level of the incident management system organization is this fire officer responsible for?

A. Operational
B. Strategic
C. Task
D. Tactical

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D. Tactical

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What hazard is the fire officer concerned about during an incident involving a fire in a modern wood frame (NFPA 220, Type V) house?

A. Open concept arrangement and fire spread
B. Inoperable fire protection systems
C. Metal parallel chord truss system
D. Old deteriorating heavy structural members and their potential collapse

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A. Open concept arrangement and fire spread

45
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How is the term fuel load (fire load) defined?

A. Transmission of heat energy from one body to another body at a lower temperature
B. Total quantity of combustible contents in a building, space or fire area
C. Area surrounding a heat source in which there is sufficient air available
D. Form of fire gas ignition

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B. Total quantity of combustible contents in a building, space or fire area

46
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What incident priority is addressed when crews are assigned to begin salvage operations?

A. Property conservation
B. Incident stabilization
C. Firefighter safety
D. Life safety

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A. Property conservation

47
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What is a component that should be included in a written infection control plan?

A. Education and training requirements
B. Health and wellness initiatives
C. Who is in charge of the plan
D. Where the information can be found

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A. Education and training requirements

48
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In which NFPA standard would a fire officer find information regarding selection, care and maintenance of protective equipment?

A. NFPA 1500
B. NFPA 1021
C. NFPA 1851
D. NFPA 1001

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C. NFPA 1851

49
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What system is used to account for firefighter location, movement, status, crew integrity and time on air in a controlled area, according to Section 21 Guidance Notes?

A. Accountability and entry control
B. Respiratory protection
C. Command
D. Records management

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A. Accountability and entry control

50
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Fire service personnel may suffer from injuries while providing emergency response. Which of the following is an example of a chronic injury?

A. Surface burns
B. Behavioral health issues
C. Asphyxiation
D. Cuts and bruised

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B. Behavioral health issues

51
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What is the four step method of instruction?

A

Step 1 - Preparation
Step 2 - Presentation
Step 3 - Application
Step 4 - Evaluation

52
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What are the steps to directing a training evolution according to skill sheet 8-1?

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Step 1 - Review (familiarize)
Step 2 - Plan training including
- learning objectives
- justification for site selection
- list of necessary tools and equipment
- list of expectations
- identification of potential hazards
- list of evolution methods
Step 3 - Direct a training session
- clear directions provided to members
- learning objectives are met
- training policies and procedures are followed
- safety is maintained at all times
Step 4 - Evaluate whether training objectives are met
Step 5 - Provide feedback using coaching techniques
Step 6 - Gather planned training evolution, evaluation and feedback documentation and utilize department records system to store.

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