What type of helicopter is the largest? - Correct Answer Type 1
What type of fire is the slowest burning? - Correct Answer Ground
What type of fuels transfer fire to ladder fuels? - Correct Answer Surface Fuels
What is the minimum height for wildland boots? - Correct Answer 8 in.
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FF1 Wildland Exam Questions And Quality Solutions
What type of helicopter is the largest? - Correct Answer Type 1
What type of fire is the slowest burning? - Correct Answer Ground
What type of fuels transfer fire to ladder fuels? - Correct Answer Surface Fuels
What is the minimum height for wildland boots? - Correct Answer 8 in.
What is the name of where the fire starts? - Correct Answer Point of Origin
What is the name for the fastest moving part of the fire? - Correct Answer Head
What is the name of the geographical sections on a fire? - Correct Answer Divisions
What is the process to clear a structure for rapidly moving fire? - Correct Answer Check & Go
What is the process where you prepare the structure & then defend from fire? - Correct Answer Prep &
Defend
What is undeveloped land with vegetation up to a structure? - Correct Answer Wildland Urban Interface
What type of vehicle has short wheelbase and higher ground clearnace? - Correct Answer Type 3
Which slope of a hill heats up first? - Correct Answer East
What tool has rake/grubbing end? - Correct Answer Pulaski
If there is not enough time to build a proper hand line build? - Correct Answer Scratch line
,Inspect wildland boots for which pf the following? - Correct Answer Defects
What tool has 2 sharp edges for digging, throwing dirt, and cutting line? - Correct Answer Shovel
What type of fire results from surface fuels igniting ladder fuels? - Correct Answer Crown
What do you look for on handle of a shovel? - Correct Answer Smoothness
What is directing spot fires away from a structure? - Correct Answer Bump & Run
Who has overall decision making on a fire? - Correct Answer Incident Command
How high is vegetation considered arial fuels? - Correct Answer 6 ft
When you make a line with water or fire retardant or foam? - Correct Answer Wet line
What is the process of mopping up without water? - Correct Answer Dry Mop Up
What is it called when you bury embers with soil? - Correct Answer Banking
What is it called when you're attacking a fires edge? - Correct Answer Direct Attack
What is it called when you chop up smaller pieces? - Correct Answer Chunking
What slope gets the hottest/exposed to most sunlight? - Correct Answer South
Where do most wildland fires start? - Correct Answer Ground
,What type of fuel has least affect on fire spread? - Correct Answer Ground
How long should you be self sufficient for with personal gear bag? - Correct Answer 14 days
Whats the spacing kept between you and the next person cutting line? - Correct Answer 10 ft
Wildland fuels that lie under the surface of ground? - Correct Answer Subsurface fuels
Which extinguishing agent is best suited for use in wildland fire operations? - Correct Answer
Compressed Air Foam
What is the term for the partly decomposed organic material on a forest floor? - Correct Answer
Ground Duff
What is the most common type of wildland fire? - Correct Answer Ground Cover
What is another term for surface fuels? - Correct Answer Ground
The smothering method of extinguishment is most frequently used in which wildland operation? -
Correct Answer Overhaul
The location near where a wildland fire began is the? - Correct Answer Heel
All combustible materials below the surface litter, including duff, tree or shrub roots, punky wood, peat,
and sawdust, that normally support a glowing combustion without flame? - Correct Answer Ground
Fuel
Fuels that are in contact with each other are described as? - Correct Answer Continous
If a wildland or ground cover fire is too dangerous for a direct attack, which type of fire attack should be
used? - Correct Answer Indirect Attack
, List the four components of LCES - Correct Answer Lookouts, communication, Escape Routes, Safety
Zones
Slope and gravity are important safety considerations because:
A. Increase slope increases the rate of spread
B. Working on slopes increases firefighters fatigue
C. Gravity causes material to roll downhill
D. All of the above
E. None of the above - Correct Answer D. All of the above
You should anticipate increased wind, when eddies, opposite slope spot fires, area ignition and slope
reversal when working on/in:
A. Narrow intersecting canyons
B. Saddles
C. Chimneys
D. All of the above
E. None of the above - Correct Answer A. Narrow intersecting canyons
Increased rates of spread should be anticipated due to surface wind channeling when fires cross:
A. Road
B. Rivers
C. Saddles
D. All of the above
E. None of the above - Correct Answer C. Saddles
Why do a very high percentage of fatal fires occur in light fuels?
A. Firefighters more complacent
B. Rate of spread can increase dramatically with wind increase
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