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GLOSSARY Flashcards

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Automatic Aid

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Predetermine response agreement between agencies.

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Backup passport

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Red passport, use as a second method of identifying a company.

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Base

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Designated location, staging area. should be located away from buildings to provide personnel safety.

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Branch

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Organizational level having functional, geographical, or jurisdictional responsibility for major part of the incident operator.

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Brush

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Unit capable of traversing rough terrain and carries its own water supply, best suited for ground cover fires in wooded areas or areas with poor access.

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C.A.N. REPORT

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Conditions, Actions, Needs. Used for several reports.

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Casualty Collection Point CCP

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Location where patients are collected, triaged, and provided with initial medical care.

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Code 1

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Quite response

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Code 3

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Emergency lights

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Cold Zone

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Outside the warm zone, where no hazards exist, where vehicle staging and treatment areas are located.

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Command Staff

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Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, and Liason Officer.

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Company

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Personnel performing task.

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Company Unity

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Fire company shall remain together.

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Confine Space

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Areas with limited space.

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Division

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Firefighters from more than one company operating in a specific geographic area under the direction of a Division Supervisor, organization level having responsibility for operations within a defined geographic area. The Division is organizationally between the Strike Team and the Branch.

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Elapse Time Notification

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On any working fire the dispatcher will transmit an elapse time notification. this will be done every 10 minutes from call received call time until incident is under control.

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Emergency Traffic

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Term used for clear designated channel.

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Engine Company

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Fire suppression, Advance life support.

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Geographic Destination

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Orientation of buildings

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Group

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Firefighters from more than one company assigned to perform a specific task, but not necessarily in a specific location. Groups are located between branches.

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Hot Zone (Exclusionary Zone)

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Area surrounding incident that extends far enough to prevent the adverse effects from fire. Other danger to personnel outside this zone.

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Incident Command Post ICP

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Location where primary command functions.

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Incident Command System

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Combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and communications operating with a common organizational structure with responsibility for the management of assigned resources to effectively accomplish stated objectives pertaining to an incident.

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Incident Management Team

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Comprehensive resource team to either enhance ongoing operations through provision of infrastrure support, or when requested, transition to an incident management function to include all components/functions of a command and general staff.

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Inner circle survey

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Performed at a motor vehicle crash to determine the number and condition of patient.

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Incident Objectives

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Guidance and directions that are specific, measurable, attainable, results, results oriented, timely, S.M.A.R.T and necessary for the selection of appropriate strategies, and the tactical direction of resources.

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Ladder/ Truck

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Carry specialized forcible entry equipment and provide advance life support.

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Level I

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Starts with the placement of personnel accountability tags an the Unit Identification Passport UIP.

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Level II

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When multiple companies are operating in a hazardous area.

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Level III

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Hazardous incidents, high rise fires, below grade rescue operations, and large or complex emergency incidents where large number of personnel are operating with SCBA in a hazardous environment.

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Limited Access Highway

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Restricted or limited points of entry and exit.

32
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Loss Stopped

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Damage caused by fire, Salvage and Overhaul has stopped.

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MDC

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Mobile data communication

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Mobile Command

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First arriving officer choosing to combine action with command. Investigation, Quick attack.

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Move Up

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Unit its available but will be out of zone.

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Mutual Aid

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Assistance between agencies.

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Non- Technical Evacuation

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Evacuations less than 40 degrees of incline.

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Outer Circle Survey

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Function at a motor vehicle crash. Determines any hazardous outside, immediate vicinity of vehicles
(utilities, fluid, leaks, power lines) Identify other vehicles involve and victims that might have been ejected from the vehicles.

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U.C.A.N REPORT

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Use in MAYDAY situations. Unit Actions Needs.

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Primary Passport

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White

41
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RECEVOS

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Incident priorities during structure fires

Rescue
Exposure
Confinement
Extinguishment
Overhaul
ventilation
Salvage
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Secondary damage

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Damage caused by rescue.

43
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13 Point size up

A 
C- onstruction
O- ccupancy
A- pparatus and personnel
L- ife hazardous
W- ater supply
A- uxillary appliance
S- treet conditions
W- eather
E- xposures
A- rea
L- ocation and extent of fire
T- ime of day 
H- eight of the building
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Section

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The organization level having functional responsibility for primary segments of incident management (Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance/Administration). The Section level is organizationally between Branch and Command.

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Span of Control

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The number of personnel reporting to any given supervisor. The Span of Control
is typically three to seven individuals or companies, with five being the optimum. This span of
control is variable depending on the type of incident.

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Staging

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A designated location for firefighters and equipment either ready for deployment or rehabilitation. In high-rise fires, this is the area generally located two (2) floors below the fire floor.

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Strike Team

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This is a set number of resources of the same kind and type with an established minimum number of personnel. Strike Teams will always have a leader and will have a common communication among resource elements.

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Tactics

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Deploying and directing resources on an incident to accomplish the objectives designated
by current incident strategy.

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Talk Permit Tone

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This is a group of medium pitched tones heard just after pressing the Push-toTalk (PTT) button on the portable radio, verifying the system is accepting transmissions. If the sender speaks prior to the completion of the tones, nothing said prior to the tones will be heard by the receiver.

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Task Force

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A combination of units working together for a specific assignment, with common communications and a leader (e.g. 2 Engines, 1 Ladder, 1 Rescue, and 1 Incident Commander).

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Technical Evacuation

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Evacuations greater than 40 degrees inclination or on such rough terrain that the evacuation requires specific technical rescue training.

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Terrorist Incident

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An intentional violent act or an act dangerous to human life, in violation of criminal laws of the United States or any segment, meant to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

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Terrorist Incident

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An intentional violent act or an act dangerous to human life, in violation of criminal laws of the United States or any segment, meant to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

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Unified Command

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In ICS, Unified Command is a unified team effort which allows agencies with responsibility for the incident to establish a common set of incident objectives and strategies. This is accomplished without losing or abdicating agency authority, responsibility, or accountability.

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Warm Zone (Decontamination Zone)

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The area adjacent to the hot (exclusionary) and cold
(support) zones where no immediate hazards are present and where medical and tool staging can
be established. The area where decon is located during a hazardous materials incident.

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Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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Any explosive, incendiary, poison gas, bomb, military
ordinance, or weapon containing or designed to release disease organisms, chemical, or
radioactive materials.

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BNICE

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Materials threats to first responders

Biological
Nuclear
Incendiary
Chemical
Explosive

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