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DOD DRIVER/OPERATOR AERIAL EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
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DOD DRIVER/OPERATOR AERIAL EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATESOLUTIONS
The Aerial ladder is the most common type of aerial apparatus operated in North America? True or False
- Precise Answer ✔✔True
Aerial ladders are primarily used for? - Precise Answer ✔✔Ventilation, rescue, elevated master stream
application, and gaining access to upper levels of an emergency scene.
Includes the pre-piped aerial ladder waterway, detachable ladder pipe system, elevating waterway
system, and the water tower system - Precise Answer ✔✔water delivery system
Extends the third, fourth, and fifth sections of the aerial device - Precise Answer ✔✔cable system
Includes the electrical power generation equipment, scene lighting, and hydraulic extrication tool
systems - Precise Answer ✔✔mounted special system
Provides power for operating the various components needed to stabilize the apparatus and extend the
aerial device - Precise Answer ✔✔Hydraulic system
Allows one or more firefighters operating at the tip of the aerial device to breathe clean air without
donning a SCBA - Precise Answer ✔✔Breathing system
Permits firefighters at the tip of the aerial device to communicate with the driver/operator at the
turntable control station - Precise Answer ✔✔Communication system
The two most common materials for construction of aerial ladders are? - Precise Answer ✔✔heat-
treated aluminum alloy and steel.
A ladder's fly section is best described as _______ ? - Precise Answer ✔✔The second and subsequent
sections that extend beyond the base or bed section.
, Provides continuous rotation on a horizontal plane - Precise Answer ✔✔turntable
Positioned on the turntable to the side of the aerial device so that the operator has a clear view of the
tip and workers on the device - Precise Answer ✔✔Control pedestal
Deployed anytime the aerial device will be raised from its bed and prevents the apparatus from leaning
or tipping over - Precise Answer ✔✔Stabilizers
Elevates the aerial device from its stowed position - Precise Answer ✔✔Hoisting cylinders
Used to extend the third and fourth sections on an aerial device - Precise Answer ✔✔Cables, slides, and
rollers
Identify the three types of ground ladders an aerial apparatus MUST have? - Precise Answer
✔✔Extension ladders, Folding ladders, and Roof ladders
Characteristics of an aerial apparatus can be compared to ___ - Precise Answer ✔✔an individual
personality ---- each apparatus may perform, react, and handle differently.
The most important criteria for determining who will become a diver/operator should be - Precise
Answer ✔✔Skill and ability with fire fighting apparatus
Fixed breathing air systems allow what - Precise Answer ✔✔Firefighters to breathe clean air without
donning SCBA
A hoisting cylinder's function is best described as: - Precise Answer ✔✔elevating the aerial device from
its stowed position
Determine if the gauges in an aerial apparatus are functioning properly by - Precise Answer ✔✔Starting
the engine and making sure that the gauges move into their normal operative ranges
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