Fireground Strategy 202.02B Flashcards

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Command must consider the most critical direction and avenues of fire extension, plus its speed, particularly as they affect?

A
  • Rescue activities
  • Level of risk to firefighters
  • Confinement efforts
  • exposure protection
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What are the seven sides or sectors of the fire?

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Front, Rear, both sides, Top, bottom, and interior

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The basic variables relating to attack operation involve?

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  • Location/ position of attack
  • Size of attack
  • Support functions
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A Marginal situation is defined as?

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Defensive conditions with a known rescue.

Very short window to affect a rescue or discontinue attempt and begin a defensive fire attack

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The elements of an effective defensive strategy always include?

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  • Identify what is lost
  • write it off
  • Protect exposures
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Master steams are most effective tactic to be employed in defensive operations. Standard master stream flow of what should be the guidelines?

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750 GPM

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When the exposure is severe and water is limited, the most effective tactic is to?

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Put water on exposure

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Fire under control means?

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The forward progress of the fire has been stopped and the remaining fire can be extinguished with the on scene resources. It does not mean the fire is completely out.

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If defensive operations are conducted from the onset of the incident, command will notify?

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Alarm that there will not be a primary search completed for the affected structures

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