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©PREP4EXAMS @2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Wednesday, July 17, 2024 1:27 AMEssentials of Fire Fighting 6th edition Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
The specialized or technical language of a trade profession, or similar group. - ✔️✔️Jargon
Obsolete term for resistance to fire; inappropriate because all materials with the exception of
water will burn at some point. Other terms such as fire resistive or fire resistant should be
used to indicate a materials degree of resistance to fire. - ✔️✔️Fireproof
Line, area, or zone where an undeveloped wild land area meets a human development area.
Also known as Urban/Wild land interface. - ✔️✔️Wild land/Urban Interface
Standardized approach to incident management that facilitates interaction between
cooperating agencies; adaptable to incidents of any size or type. - ✔️✔️Incident Command
System
Personnel who provide emergency services to external customers. - ✔️✔️Line Functions
Citizens of the service area protected by the organization. - ✔️✔️External Customers
Term used in codes and standards to identify the legal entity, such as a building or fire
official, that has the statutory authority to enforce a code and to approve or require
equipment; may be a unit of a local, state, or federal government, depending on where the
work occurs. in the insurance industry it may refer to an insurance rating bureau or an
insurance company inspection department. - ✔️✔️Authority Having Jurisdiction
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. - ✔️✔️All-
Hazard Concept
Guide to decision making in an organization. - ✔️✔️Policy
Hardware mounted on exit doors in public buildings that unlock from the inside and enable
doors to be opened when pressure is applied to the release mechanism. - ✔️✔️Panic Hardware
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
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Rule for how personnel should perform routine function or emergency operations.
Procedures are typically written in a handbook, so that all firefighters can become familiar
with them. - ✔️✔️Standard Operating Procedure
Step-by-step written plan that is closely related to a policy. Procedures help an organization
to ensure that is consistently approaches a task in the correct way, in order to accomplish a
specific objective and comply with a policy. - ✔️✔️Procedure
The shared assumptions, beliefs, and values of a group or organization. - ✔️✔️Culture
Employees and membership of the organization. - ✔️✔️Internal Customers
A set of principles, protocols, or procedures that explain how to do something or provide a
set of minimum standards to be followed. Adhering to a standard is not required by law,
although standards may be incorporated in codes, which are legally enforceable. -
✔️✔️Standard
Ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and use the
information that has been exchanged. - ✔️✔️Interoperability
Personnel who provide administrative and logistical support to line units. - ✔️✔️Staff/Support
Functions
Limiting the access of non-emergency personnel to the emergency scene. - ✔️✔️Crowd
Control
Written plan that analyzes the exposure to hazards, implements appropriate risk management
techniques, and establishes criteria for monitoring their effectiveness. - ✔️✔️Risk
Management Plan
Level of care that all persons should receive; care that does not meet this standard is
considered inadequate. - ✔️✔️Standard of Care
Description of any atmosphere that poses an immediate hazard to life or produces immediate,
irreversible, debilitating effects on health. - ✔️✔️Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health
Intermediate partial bulkhead that reduces the surge effect in a partially loaded liquid tank. -
✔️✔️Baffle
Sharp or severe; having a rapid onset and short duration. - ✔️✔️Acute
Any agent, condition, or experience that causes stress. - ✔️✔️Stressor
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