John Norman Chp. 1 Flashcards
To protect life and property
Basic Goal and Basic Principle
When sufficient personnel are not available to effect both ___ and___ at the same time, ___ must be given priority
Rescue and extinguishment
Rescue
More live have been saved by properly ___ and___ than by all other means
positioned and operated hoselines
When you do have sufficient____ to perform all the needed tasks,____ those that protect the greatest number of human lives
personnel
first perform
The word ___ should be used in discussion of life hazards.
savable
Remove those in ____ danger first
greatest
Generally, those people in the ___ vicinity of the fire are in the greatest danger and those directly above the fire. The next highest priority are those directly ___ the fire. After these individuals, removal may we’ll skip a floor or more toward the ___ floor
Immediate
Above
Top
Search of the ___ and the ____, from the ____ all the way through the ____, must be an immediate priority
staircase
connecting public hallways
roof
When enough personnel are available to perform ___ and ___ functions, they must carry out a ___ fire attack.
Engine and Ladder
coordinated
An ___,____ fire attack may reduce or eliminate the life hazard.
aggressive, coordinated
It is well-established practice in many departments to immediately ___ over the stairway to prevent mushrooming in apartment buildings.
vent the roof
Simultaneously, a Hoskins is stretched to the ___ apartment door to prevent extension up the stairway
Interior Apartment
The apartment door is kept closed, ___, ___, and ___, until all of the occupants are off the stairway
confining the fire, heat, and smoke,
When there’s is no threat to occupants, the of ___ shouldn’t be unduly endangered
Firefighters
When a fire unit arrives at the scene of an incident, a number of items go through the minds of the firefighters —- that’s the ___
Size up
The action that they take, regardless of the type of incident encountered, will almost always follow this sequence: ___, ___, and ___.
Locate, confine and extinguish
Actually, ___ the Fire constitutes as a part of size up
Locating
Some texts refer to ___ and ___ as two separate task
protecting exposures and confining the fire
Firefighters must constantly be aware that there are six possible directions for fire to spread:
left, right, ahead, back, up, and down
The idea behind protecting ___ before ____ the fire building is based on the notion that it is better to lose one building that two
Exposures and Confining
The last rule for firefighting is a brief one
Let the circumstances dictate procedures
