Tenements Flashcards
Tenements:
What is a known life hazard?
Seen
Heard
Info from credible source at scene
Tenements:
When does size up start?
The receipt of the alarm.
Tenements:
What is immediate supervision?
Visual or voice contact (within)
Search or hose line
Tenements:
Do you have to leave a truck member at the apartment door?
Yes
Tenements:
For a store fire in a tournament where does the Ov go?
To the rear to vent
Tenements:
Who does the OVM usually team up with if the fire is in the rear? The front?
**generally
Front - LCC
Rear - roof
Tenements:
What does the roof man do as soon as he reaches the roof?
Confirms his way off.
Tenements:
When should the roof man perform vertical ventilation?
Immediately upon:
- Hearing that the inside team has door control
- Hearing a charged hose line is advancing into the fire apartment
Tenements:
If the officer does not want vertical vent yet, what should the roof man do?
Force open the bulkhead, reach in and probe, immediately closed and control the door
Tenements:
First truck is a TL with no front fire escape.
OV in bucket?
Who vents the apartment from the rear FE?
Yes
The roof man
Tenements:
What must the second truck boys do before going above?
Ensure the officers on fire floor know
Tenements:
What apartment does the second truck check on the floor above?
The apartment above and the adjoining (Especially in 0LT)
Tenements:
Second LCC duties?
Front of or if not needed then go above the fire
Tenements:
Second roof man tools?
Halligan
Halligan Hook
Top floor fire: take saw and Halligan hook
Tenements:
Second truck at a top floor or cockloft fire goes where?
To the top floor
Tenements:
Second due LCC at a top floor or cockloft fire goes where?
If not needed in front goes to roof
Tenements:
There is a critical need for more members on the roof at an old law tenement or new law tenement top floor fire?
New law tenement due to the large amount of apartments
Tenements:
What type of roof requires immediate notification to the incident commander?
Membrane
Tenements:
More recently have shaft fires originated in the apartment or at the base of the shaft?
In the apartment
Tenements:
At a shaft fire, once the engine company knocks down the fire in a room what must they do next?
Knock down the shaft fire before continuing through the apartment for final extinguishment.
Tenements:
At a shaft fire where are those the second truck position itself?
To cover the exposed building
Tenements:
What must you check at a dumb waiter fire for extension?
CCT
Cockloft
Cellar
Top floor
Tenements:
If there is smoke in the dumbwaiter shaft what should the roof fire fighter do?
If there is fire in the shaft what should the roof man do?
Notify officer
Vent
Tenements:
How should removed scuttles/skylights be placed on roof?
Upside down
Tenements:
When removing metal gates on windows, where should you place the adz or fork?
Opposite the locking device
Tenements:
Using the door as a ramp to the bulkhead should be placed how many degrees?
30-45
Tenements:
If smoke is issuing from cornice, what should you open?
Cornice?
Ceiling?
Returns?
NEVER the cornice
Returns or ceiling
Tenements:
Secondary search includes outside building?
Yes - perimeter, shafts, basements etc
Tenements:
Who probes besides the roof?
Inside team if apt is too hot and can’t enter.
OV if entry isn’t possible
Tenements:
If members on floor above can’t find a safe area when engine is ready to advanced then what?
Come back down to FF
Tenements:
Do you need permission to take windows from above?
Yes - it’s horizontal
Tenements:
After VEIS What is the priority action before conducting a search?
Closing the door
Tenements:
What cut is the knockout cut?
2. “knock out” = two words
Tenements:
Where should you inspect the cockloft from a position on the top floor?
Should you expand that hole at all?
An adjacent room
Only if a charged hose line is in position
Tenements:
If I was discovered in the car cloth from below, how can you alleviate that new smoke condition?
Ventilate all the windows in the fire apartment
Tenements:
What is the order of preference of tools for breaking through a partition wall?
Halligan
Hook
Axe
Tenements:
When taking a partition wall, should you start high or low?
Should you take the near side or far side of wall first?
Low
**the opposite of taking a bulkhead
Near side with tool, then take far side by kicking with foot
Tenements:
When does pre-control overhauling begin?
As soon as possible after the fire has been knocked down
Tenements:
Where should ceiling be opened to check for extension?
Where the fire was most intense
Tenements:
What justifies calling for a handline?
Crackling sound or fiery glow
Tenements:
When should a partition be opened up?
Where should it be made?
If it is too hot to keep hand on.
Above the hotspot (to cut it off)
Tenements:
Where should you start to open a baseboard
Start at the corner
Tenements:
Are floors often cut at tenements?
No, it is easier to open up from below
Tenements:
How should you hold axe to cut floor?
At 60 degree angle to floor
aXe = siXty
Tenements:
What should be the first part of a window removed?
The trim (it is put on last during construction process)
Tenements:
safe number of guys using tools in an OLT room?
Dangerous for more than one or two
Tenements:
Where should material not be thrown?
Roofs, narrow shafts, setbacks
Tenements:
Should lintels be removed?
No
