FT Spring Quiz 3 Flashcards
Your engine company arrives first at a fully involved brownstone fire. Where should you order your handline stretched?
Select one:
a. Into the most severe exposure based on life hazard
b. Into the fire building
c. Into the most severe exposure based on fire conditions
d. Operated from the exterior until a large caliber stream is placed into operation.
B
(Brownstones 3.4)
The correct answer is: Into the fire building
Engine 235 is ordered to stretch the second handine at a fully involved brownstone fire. Where should the officer instruct the firefighters to stretch this line?
Select one:
a. Into the most severe exposure based on fire conditions
b. Into the most severe exposure based on life hazard
c. Into the fire building
d. Operated from the exterior until a large caliber stream is placed into operation
C
Into the fire building as a backup for the 1st line (Brownstones 3.4)
The correct answer is: Into the fire building
The placement of the second line at a fire in a high rise office building may be used for all but which one of the following?
Select one:
a. Protect the position of the first line
b. Reinforce the position of the first line
c. Contain and confine fire spread and/or prevent fire from wrapping around the core and endangering operation of the first line
d. Extinguish any fire extension of the floor above the fire
D
It does not mention the 2nd line going to the floor above (High Rise Office 5.4.3)
The correct answer is: Extinguish any fire extension of the floor above the fire
For a fully involved row frame with fire in both exposures, the first arriving engine should stretch a 3 ½” supply line for a tower ladder, and stretch the first hand line to?
Select one:
a. Into the fire building through the front door
b. The top floor of the most severe exposure
c. The front of the building and operate from the exterior until a tower ladder is in operation. Then into the most severe exposure.
A
(Rowframes 6.5)
The correct answer is: Into the fire building through the front door
At the scene of a possible chemical suicide incident, a charged hoseline should be stretched with a fog nozzle attached. This line should be used primarily for? Select one: a. Vapor dispersal b. Decontamination c. Fire suppression
B
(Haz-Mat 11 4.1)
The correct answer is: Decontamination
For a fire in the cellar of an occupied taxpayer, which engine company in responsible to ensure that the sprinkler system is supplied? Select one: a. 2nd engine b. 4th engine c. 1st engine d. 3rd engine
D
For all taxpayer fires, the 3rd engine is responsible for ensuring the sprinkler system is supplied (Taxpayers 7.2.3 C)
The correct answer is: 3rd engine
At a store fire in a taxpayer, to which position should the 2nd hand line be stretched to?
Select one:
a. Into the store involved
b. Operated from the exterior into the fire building
c. Into the most severely exposed exposure
d. To the roof of the fire building
A
The 1st two hand lines are stretched into the store involved (Taxpayers 7.3.1 A)
The correct answer is: Into the store involved
Stretching a 2 ½” hoseline should be considered for all but which situation below?
Select one:
a. A fully involved private dwelling
b. A wind impacted fire in a private dwelling
c. A heavy fire on the top floor in a larger style private dwelling such as a Queen Anne
C
For a heavily involved FIRST FLOOR fire in a larger style Private Dwelling (Queen Anne) (Private Dwellings Chapter 3 53, 5.4)
The correct answer is: A heavy fire on the top floor in a larger style private dwelling such as a Queen Anne
At a private dwelling fire, the Incident Commander should consider ordering an exterior hoseline operated into a cellar window to allow for a quick knockdown when there will be a delay in applying water from the interior or whenever fire conditions dictate. In this situation an Incident Commander can be considered?
Select one:
a. A Chief Officer or Acting Chief Officer only
b. A Chief or Company Officer
B
(Private Dwellings Chapter 3 2.6)
The correct answer is: A Chief or Company Officer
An engine company stretching the 1st handine for a fire in the choir loft of a place of worship should stretch?
Select one:
a. A 2 ½” line through the access that provides the quickest access to the fire area
b. An 1 ¾” line through the access that provides the quickest access to the fire area
c. A 2 ½” line through the main entrance
d. An 1 ¾” line through the main entrance
A
(Places of Worship 6.3.1)
The correct answer is: A 2 ½” line through the access that provides the quickest access to the fire area
At fires in high rise fireproof multiple dwellings, the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ engine company is responsible for placing the High Rise Nozzle into operation, if this alternate strategy is needed. Select one: a. 6th b. 3rd c. 4th d. 5th
D
(MD Fires 6.11)
The correct answer is: 5th
When supplying water to a standpipe system at a fire on the 50th floor of a 60 story high rise office building, the recommended discharge pressure is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Select one: a. 300 b. 450 c. 350 d. 400
C
(High Rise Office 4.1.7)
The correct answer is: 350
In cellar and sub-cellar fires in Cast-Iron and Mill Loft buildings, if the building is supplied by a sprinkler system servicing the fire area, which engine should ensure a supply line is stretched to feed the system? Select one: a. 4th engine b. 2nd engine c. 1st engine d. 3rd engine
B
(Loft 6.2.1 B)
The correct answer is: 2nd engine
The cockloft nozzle is to be supplied by a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ handline. The discharge rate of this nozzle is approximately \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ gpm. Select one: a. 2 ½”/ 80 b. 2 ½” / 125 c. 1 ¾”/ 80 d. 1 ¾”/ 125
D
(TB Tools 7, Data Sheet 18)
The correct answer is: 1 ¾”/ 125
The supply inlet of the Blitzfire monitor is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. It should not be operated at more than \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ psi inlet pressure with any type of solid stream or fog nozzle. Select one: a. 2 ½”/ 175 b. 2 ½”/ 250 c. 1 ¾” /250 d. 1 ¾” /175
A
(TB Tools 38 7.1, 7.3)
The correct answer is: 2 ½”/ 175
