GA Manual

Question 0

How many apartments in a common garden apartment configuration?

Answer 0

4

Question 1

Garden apartments of ordinary construction do not exceed how many stories:

Answer 1

5

Question 2

What is one of the primary means of fire extensions in garden apartments?

Answer 2

Vertical voids

Question 3

What construction type has less potential for early collapse?

Answer 3

Ordinary

Question 4

What is essential for situational awareness and predicting fire behavior?

Answer 4

Reading smoke

Question 5

Garden Apartment, if the initial attack line is deployed over a balcony, where is the second line deployed?

Answer 5

Apartment door

Question 6

Garden Apartment, what hose stream is more efficient for exterior exposures?

Answer 6

Narrow fog

Question 7

What type of space is under a flat roof of a garden apartment?

Answer 7

Cockloft

Question 8

What type roof represents relatively low catastrophic collapse hazard?

Answer 8

Gable

Question 9

Typical depth of garden apartments is?

Answer 9

50ft.

Question 10

A common garden apartment configuration consists of what?

Answer 10

Stairwell, foyer and four apartments

Question 11

What style apartment consists of large three or four bedroom apartments that occupy portions of quadrants A, B and C while smaller efficiency apartments occupy part of the B and C quadrants?

Answer 11

Wrap-around

Question 12

What is one way you are able to identify a pitched roof has been built over a flat roof?

Answer 12

Cockloft vents on an apartment with a pitched roof

Question 13

In the 1970’s and 1980’s this type of plywood was used normally near the firewall outward for a distance of two or four feet?

Answer 13

FRT

Question 14

When smoke is issuing from the band board area of an exterior wall, this indicates what?

Answer 14

Fire in the truss floor space

Question 15

After a quick exterior knockdown of a fire that originated in the exterior of a garden apartment. An additional line must be quickly placed into the building to check for fire spread with emphasis on what areas?

Answer 15

Attic and upper floor

Question 16

How life safety is achieved during a fire at a garden apartment?

Answer 16

Aggressive interior attack and primary search

Question 17

If fire is showing from bedroom windows of a garden apartment, where should the crews place the ladders to that apartment?

Answer 17

To the balcony

Question 18

What engine company is responsible for checking the floor below the first due engine?

Answer 18

2nd

Question 19

In general, apparatus should position in single file, preferable on the ______ side of the street.

Answer 19

Fire side

Question 20

The most important items in size-up (besides rescues) are what?

Answer 20

Fire location and extension potential

Question 21

Advancing the attack line in the enclosed stairwell through the front door should be delayed if occupants of the building are actually in the stairwell. The door to the fire apartment should remain closed and the stairwell cleared of occupants. What other apartment doors need to be checked quickly for closure?

Answer 21

Doors across from and above the fire apartment

Question 22

In the initial line was deployed over the balcony, the second line should go where?

Answer 22

To the stairwell and stand-by at the apartment’s door

Question 23

Who is normally responsible for advancing a hose line to the floor above the fire?

Answer 23

3rd engine

Question 24

During an attic fire this should be considered early and will assist in containing the fire and slow the lateral spread?

Answer 24

Vertical ventilation

Question 25

How many attack lines are usually needed to handle a fire in a cockloft?

Answer 25

1

Question 26

Where should the turntable of the first truck be positioned on a for in a garden apartment?

Answer 26

Center of the fire quadrant

Question 27

Where should the second due truck position on a fire in a garden apartment?

Answer 27

Opposite of the first truck

Question 28

What will be the primary method of ventilation for the fire apartment and the apartment above the fire?

Answer 28

Horizontal

Question 29

In situations where there is fire involvement in the living room and kitchen, what tactic should be considered for searching of the bedrooms form the exterior?

Answer 29

VES

Question 30

Ladders for egress at apartment building will normally be thrown where first?

Answer 30

Bedroom

Question 31

The roof should be laddered over the stairwell with what type of ladder?

Answer 31

Aerial ladder

Question 32

When a garage is on fire and the interior of the building is protected (fire door, hose line) where is the preferred method for approach?

Answer 32

Exterior

Question 33

If no obvious rescues are needed, what is the first take that needs to be completed?

Answer 33

Locating the fire