Ch. 17: Fire Attack

Question 1

What is described as the volume between an inlet and an exhaust that allows the movement of heat and smoke from a higher-pressure area within the fire area toward lower-pressure areas accessible via doors, windows, and other openings?

Answer 1

flow path

Question 2

What is the only way to go from a ventilation-limited to a fuel-limited fire?

Answer 2

Through the application of water before vertical ventilation.

Question 3

What is an important factor in limiting heat release and temperatures in the house?

Answer 3

Limiting flow paths until fire suppression water is ready to be applied.

Question 4

What means that, without ventilation, fire would consume all of the fuel?

Answer 4

fuel limited

Question 5

What is a systematic process of gathering and processing information to evaluate the situation and then translating that information into a plan to deal with the situation?

Answer 5

size-up

Question 6

What is Layman’s five-step process for analyzing emergency situations?

Answer 6

[FPSDP]

1. Facts
2. Probabilities
3. Situation
4. Decision
5. Plan of operation

Question 7

What are the things that are known about the situation?

Answer 7

facts

Question 8

What are the things that are likely to happen or can be anticipated based on the known facts?

Answer 8

probabilities

Question 9

What are the three considerations involved in the situation assessment?

Answer 9

1. Whether the resources on scene and en route will be sufficient to handle the incident.
2. The specific capabilities and limitations of the responding resources in relation to the problem.
3. The capabilities and limitations of the personnel, based on training and experience.

Question 10

What step in Layman’s process requires the fire officer to make specific judgment decisions based on the known facts and probabilities, as well as the situation evaluation?

Answer 10

decision

Question 11

What is the National Fire Academy’s (NFA) size-up system that includes three phases?

Answer 11

[PIO]

1. Preincident information
2. Initial size-up
3. Ongoing size-up

Question 12

What is a key factor to size-up when selecting the appropriate strategic mode?

Answer 12

risk-benefit analysis

Question 13

What consists of an advance into the fire building by firefighters with hose lines or other extinguishing agents to overpower the fire?

Answer 13

offensive operation

Question 14

What is used when the risks outweigh the expected benefits?

Answer 14

defensive operation

Question 15

What strategy can be used when the recognition that the situation could change to an offensive approach when interior conditions improve?

Answer 15

transitional operation

Question 16

What are the two major components to the IAP?

Answer 16

1. The determination of the appropriate strategy to mitigate an incident
2. The development of tactics to execute the strategy

Question 17

Strategies are general, whereas tactics are _______ and ______.

Answer 17

specific; measurable

Question 18

Tactical Priorites [RECEO VS]

Answer 18

Rescue
Exposures
Confinement
Extinguishment
Overhaul
Ventilation
Salvage

Question 19

What is a dedicated crew of firefighters who are assigned for rapid deployment to rescue lost or trapped member?

Answer 19

Rapid Intervention Crew (RIC)

Question 20

What is a systematic method of accounting for all personnel at an emergency incident?

Answer 20

personnel accountability report (PAR)