NFPA 1710 Flashcards
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1710 does NOT address tactical operations specific to emergency incidents
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A plan developed between two or more Fire Departments for immediate joint response on first alarms
Auto aid
A written intergovernmental agreement between agencies or jurisdictions that will assist another upon request by furnishing personnel, equipment, and or expertise in a specific manner
Mutual aid
A signal or message from a person or device indicating an emergency
Alarm
A fire department that utilizes a full time or full time equivalent station based personnel immediately available to comprise at least 50% of an initial alarm assignment
Career fire department
A systematic approach that identify, asses, categorizes and classifies the probability consequences are f a communities fire and non fire hazards and threats taking in to account all pertinent facts and hat increase or decrease risk for n each first due response
Community risk assessment
Population over 200,00 or 3,000 people per mile
Dense urban
Method of providing fire detection control and extinguishment
Fire protection
Activities involved in controlling and extinguishing fires
Fire suppression
A written formal authorization for service between two or more jurisdictions
Intergovernmental agreement
A facility in which 911 calls are answered
Public safety answering points
PSAP
Area with fewer than 500 people per mile
Rural
A written organizational directive the establishes a prescribed specific operational or administrative method to be followed routinely for the performance of designed operations or actions
SOP
Incorporated or in incorporated are with a population between 500-1,000 people per mile
Suburban
Time interval begins with the alarm is received and ends when the alarm is acknowledged at the communication center
Alarm answering time
Time interval from receipt of the alarm at the PSAP until the beginning of the transmittal of the response info via voice or electronic means to emergency response facilities or the emergency response unit
Alarm handling time
Time from alarm is acknowledged at the communication center until response info begins to be transmitted via voice or electronic means to emergency response facilities and emergency response units
Alarm processing time
Time receipt of alarm at PSAP to first unit is imitating action to control incident
Total response time
30,000 or over 1,000-2,999 people
Urban
A written statement containing Department existence Services (delivery objectives and times) Organizational structure Number of members Functions
Organizational statement
Turnout time for fire and special ops
80 sec
Turnout time for Ems
60 seconds
Travel time to fires for first engine
240sec (4min)
Full alarm assignment other than high rise
480 sec (8min)