Rescue 202.2C

Question 1

What type of search will the Incident Commander direct in all involved and exposed occupancies which can be entered?

Answer 1

primary search.

Question 2

The Incident Commander must structure initial operations around the completion of the what?

Answer 2

primary search.

Question 3

The Incident Commander must consider the following factors in developing a basic rescue size-up?

Answer 3

• Number, location and condition of victims
• Affect the fire has on the victims
• Capability of the control forces to enter the building, remove/protect victims and control fire

Question 4

Command must make the basic rescue decision.

What are the 2 options

Answer 4

• Do we remove the victims from the fire? OR

* Do we remove the fire from the victims?

Question 5

Rescue efforts should be extended in the following order?

4

Answer 5

• Most severely threatened
• The largest number (groups)
• The remainder of the fire area
• The exposed areas

Question 6

A primary search means what?

Answer 6

companies have quickly gone through all affected areas and verified the removal and/or safety of all occupants.

Question 7

The completion of the primary search is reported utilizing the standard radio reporting term?
and who is it reported to?

Answer 7

“ALL CLEAR”

To the IC or Alarm room

Question 8

what is a secondary search and who should complete it?

Answer 8

• companies thoroughly search the interior of the fire area after initial fire control and ventilation activities have been completed,
• secondary search should preferably be completed by different companies than those involved in the primary search activities

Question 9

Thoroughness; rather than time, is the critical factor in what kind of search?

Answer 9

secondary search

Question 10

In nothing showing situations:
Command must structure a rapid interior search and report “___ _____” The interior search for victims will also verify no fire.

Answer 10

“ALL CLEAR.”

Question 11

In smoke showing and working fire situations, fire control efforts must be extended ____________with _______ operations in order to gain entry and control interior access to complete a primary search. In such cases, Command and operating companies must be aware that the operation is in a rescue mode until the _______ search is complete, regardless of the fire control required. In working fire situations, a primary search must be followed by a secondary search.

Answer 11

• simultaneously
• rescue
• primary

Question 12

In cases of fully involved buildings or sections of buildings, immediate entry and primary search activities become impossible and survival of occupants is improbable. Command must initially report ______ _______ conditions and that an “ALL CLEAR” will not be reported. As quickly as fire control is achieved, Command must structure what is, in effect, a _______ _______ for victims.

Answer 12

• fully involved

- secondary search

Question 13

When primary search companies encounter and remove victims, Command must assign other companies to continue to cover what?

Answer 13

the interior positions vacated by those companies.

Question 14

All initial attack efforts must be directed toward supporting rescue efforts and hose lines must be what?

Answer 14

• placed in a manner to control interior access
• confine the fire
• protect avenues of escape.