New Notes Flashcards
The most basic principle of firefighting is that ___ ___ takes precedence over all other concerns.
Human Life
One of the most basic principles is that the firefighter’s responsibility is to protect ___ and ___.
Life and property
When sufficient manpower isn’t available to effect both rescue and extinguishment at the same time, ___ must be given priority.
Rescue
You must learn to put human life above ___ ___.
Property losses
More lives are saved by properly positioned ___ than any other means.
hand lines
When you don’t have sufficient manpower to perform all of the needed tasks, first perform those that protect the ____ number of human lives.
greatest
Remove those victims in the ___ danger first.
greatest
Generally, those people in the ___ vicinity of the fire are in the greatest danger and should be removed first. The next highest priority are those directly ___
the fire.
immediate
above
A person on the fire floor, remote from the fire, may not be in as much danger as someone on a floor ___.
above
Someone who is emotionally agitated and threatening to jump may have to be ___ ___, even if he or she is in no apparent danger.
removed immediately
When sufficient personnel are available to perform both functions, they must carry out a ___ ___ ___.
Coordinated fire attack
An aggressive, coordinated fire attack may reduce or eliminate the ___ ___.
life hazard
A ___ ___ uses the best of all of these methods to provide the highest level of life safety to the threaten occupants.
Coordinated attack
When there is no threat to occupants, the lives of firefighters ___ be unduly endangered.
shouldn’t
The actions that are taken by the first arriving unit, regardless of the type of incident that they encounter, will almost always proceed in the following
sequence: ___, ___, ___.
Locate
Confine
Extinguish
