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©PREP4EXAMS @2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Wednesday, July 17, 2024 1:27 AMEssential of Fire Fighting 7th edition Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Acute - ✔️✔️Sharp or severe having a rapid onset and short duration.
All-Hazard Concept - ✔️✔️Provides a coordinated approach to a wide variety of incidents; all
responders use a similar, coordinated approach with a common set of authorities, protections,
and resources.
Atypically Stressful Event - ✔️✔️Term used in National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
standards to describe incidents that have a likelihood of causing critical incident stress.
Battalion - ✔️✔️Fire department organizational subdivision consisting of several fire service
companies in a designated geographic area. A battalion is usually the first organizational
level above individual companies or stations.
Body Substance Isolation (BSI) - ✔️✔️Comprehensive method of infection control in which
every patient is assumed to be infected; personal protective equipment is worn to prevent
exposure to bodily fluids and blood-borne and airborne pathogens.
Carcinogen - ✔️✔️Cancer-producing substance.
Chain of Command - ✔️✔️Order of rank and authority in the fire and emergency services.
Chronic - ✔️✔️Long-term and reoccurring.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - ✔️✔️Term for several diseases that result
in obstructive problems in the airway.
Code - ✔️✔️a collection of rules and regulations that has been enacted by law in a particular
jurisdiction. Codes typically address a single subject area; examples include a mechanical,
electrical, building, or fire code.
Code Enforcement - ✔️✔️Process of enforcing a body of law aimed at reducing fire and life-
safety hazards as well as mandating the prober installation and maintenance of
building/structure fire and life-safety features to provide adequate community fire
prevention.
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Cold Zone - ✔️✔️Safe area outside of the warm zone where equipment and personnel are not
expected to become contaminated and special protective clothing is not required; the incident
command post and other support functions are typically located in this zone.
Community Risk Reduction (CRR) - ✔️✔️The Fire Department's or other agency's
identification and prioritization of risks to the community followed by integrated application
of resources to improve public safety through minimizing the probability or occurrence
and/or the impact of unfortunate events.
Company - ✔️✔️Basic fire fighting organizational unit consisting of firefighters and apparatus;
headed by company officer.
Culture - ✔️✔️The shared assumptions, beliefs, and values of a group or organization.
Generator - ✔️✔️Portable device for generating auxiliary electrical power; generators are
powered by gasoline or diesel engines and typically have 110- and/or 220-volt capacity
outlets.
Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) - ✔️✔️Device designed to protect against electrical
shock; when grounding occurs, the device opens a circuit to shut off the flow of electricity.
Ground Gradient - ✔️✔️Electrical field that radiates outward from where the current enters the
ground; its intensity dissipated rapidly as distance increases from the point of entry.
Hazard - ✔️✔️Condition, substance, or device that can directly cause injury or loss; the source
of a risk.
Hot Zone - ✔️✔️Potentially hazardous area immediately surround the incident site; requires
appropriate protective clothing and equipment and other safety precautions for entry.
Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) - ✔️✔️Description of any atmosphere that
poses an immediate hazard to life or produces immediate irreversible debilitating effects on
health.
Incident Command System (ICS) - ✔️✔️Standardizing approach to incident management that
facilitates interaction between cooperating agencies; adaptable to incidents of any size or
type.
Incident Commander (IC) - ✔️✔️Person in chare of the incident command system and
responsible for the management of all incident operations during a emergency.
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Intrinsically Safe - ✔️✔️Describes equipment that is approved for use in flammable
atmospheres; must be incapable of releasing enough electrical energy to ignite the flammable
atmosphere.
Inverter - ✔️✔️Step-up transformer that converts vehicle's 12- or 24-volt DC current into 110-
or 220-volt AC current.
Line Personnel - ✔️✔️Personnel who provide emergency services to external customers (the
public).
Mitigate - ✔️✔️To cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less sever, intense or painful;
to alleviate.
Personnel Accountability System - ✔️✔️Method for indentifying which emergency responders
are working on an incident scene.
Plans Review - ✔️✔️Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to determine the
safety characteristics of a proposed building; generally done before permission is granted to
begin construction
Policy - ✔️✔️Organizational principle that is developed and adopted as a basis for decision-
making.
Postincident Analysis - ✔️✔️Overview and critique of an incident by members of all
responding agencies, including dispatchers. Typically takes place within two weeks of the
incident. In the training environment it may be used to evaluate student and instructor
performance during a training evolution.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - ✔️✔️Disorder caused when persons have been
exposed to a traumatic event in which they have experienced, witnessed, or been confronted
with an event or events that involve actual death, threatened death, serious injury, or the
threat of physical injury to self or others.
Power Take-Off (PTO) System - ✔️✔️Mechanism that allows a vehicle engine to power
equipment such as a pump, winch, or portable tool; it is typically attached to the
transmission.
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