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What are the eight areas of fire officer duties according to 2020 ed of NFPA 1021

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  1. General
  2. Human Resource Management
  3. Community and Government Relations
  4. Administration
  5. Inspection and Investigation
  6. Emergency services delivery
  7. Health and Safety
  8. Emergency Management
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Within the NFA professional development model when does the transition from certification only to blended certification-higher learning take place?

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Fire officer 1 level

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How does NIMS define the guiding principles of successful command and coordination?

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flexibility, standardization, and unity of effort

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What is the NFPA standard for emergency services incident management system and command safety

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1561

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What are the three primary levels of of operation every incident has?

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strategic, tactical, and task

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What are the 12 components of an actual incident upon dispatch?

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  1. Dispatch/Response
  2. Arrival/Size-up
    3.Prority/Strategy
    4.Tactics
  3. Tasks
  4. Resources
  5. ICS/Organization
    8.Communications
    9.Re-evaluation
  6. Support
  7. Transfer/Close
  8. On-Scene after action review
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What is the mental process of rapidly gathering information assessing risk, gain, available resources, strategic and tactical options, and developing an initial action plan

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size-up

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What level of the incident is where the IC is over 50 feet away and thinking the furthest ahead in the incident?

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Strategic level

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What is the mindset of the IC during the strategic level?

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then/what-if

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What is the most overarching urgency that determines the incident strategy, objectives, resources needs, and level of gain or risk to be considered?

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Incident priority

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What is the first and biggest decision made by the incident commander?

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Incident priority

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What are the three options for incident priorities?

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life saving, incident stabilization, and property/environment

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A life saving incident priority is for civilian or firefighters?

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Civilians

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What does an incident stabilization priority indicate?

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all civilian life loss risk has been mitigated

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When is a moderate to low level risk allowed?

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under incident stabilization priority

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Containing or stopping a leak, confinement and preventing extension is part of what incident priority?

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incident stabilization priority. PG 55

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Which incident priority allows for minimal risk?

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property/environment priority

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Which incident priority prevents further damage to property and environment

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property/environment priority

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What determines the position from which resources will engage the problem?

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Incident strategy

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Officers closer to the work zone 6-50 feet away make what type of decisions?

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Tactical

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What limits company officers from being effective tactical officers

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limited staffing and response levels

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How does a divisional supervisor communicate with their crews?

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face-to-face

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Who makes operational decisions, assign crews to specific tasks, account for their personnel, and assess safety issues to accomplish the incident objectives?

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Tactical officers

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What are the incidents operational and functional goals to be accomplished?

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Tactical objectives

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What is based on operational/geographic boundaries for the incident?
Control objectives
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What is the space between the strategic-level IC and the task-level crews working
Tactical gap
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Where does the work get done?
Task-level
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What are the types of staging?
Level 1, Level 2, and forward staging
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Which staging is resources standby in the direction of travel within a block of incident?
Level 1
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What is level 2 staging?
Specific area away from the incident
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What is forward staging?
personnel with equipment to a forward area to be imminently assigned
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Who leads a strike team or task force?
Leader
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Who leads a division or group?
Supervisor
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What is the hierarchy of authority?
section(chief) Branch(director) division/group(supervisor) strike team/task force(leader) single resource(boss)
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What makes up the operations triangle?
strategy and tactics, ICS, SOPS
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What plays a vital role in staying ahead of the incident and in deploying mission command?
pre-assignments
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What incident command style is where the IC must orchestrate every move each company makes?
Centralized
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What are the outputs and results of the operations triangle?
operational core values: safe, effective, efficient, and consistent operations
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What is the priority of operations triangle outputs
safe, effective, efficient, and consistent
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What are the 10 commandments of Incident command?
1. Know the enemy 2. Know the battlefield 3. Know the weapons and tactics 4. Perform thorough and on-going size up 5. Stay ahead of the incident power curve 6. Communicate in Calm Clear Confident fashion 7. Give Clear objectives 8. Establish ICS divisions and Groups early 9. Have a plan b and c 10 Have the guts to say no
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What is the initial priority of a hazmat until a victim profile is optained?
Lifesaving
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What is the best tactic in a hazmat to limit responders from taking too much risk?
de-escalating to incident priority stabilization
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What is required on all hazmat responses?
assistant safety officer
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In a hazmat what refers to extreme weather exposure to victims while the are being treated and awaiting transport?
Ventilation
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When does size up start?
during training and pre-planning
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What are the Niosh 5
Lack of improper application of: risk assessment, communications, incident command, accountability, failure to follow SOGs
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What do you do enroute if dispatch does not report everyone out?
Ask for the victim profile
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What do you do if you have a confirmed vp
ask for medic unit
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What is the FPODP acronym
Facts, probabilities, own situation, decision, plan
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A roof report contains what?
Construction, Conditions, Load (CCL)
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What are tactical points of opportunity?
building construction, access, layout, and other physical features that can be leveraged to increase impact of resources
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The practice of determining the presence, status, and location of civilian victims
Victim profiling
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What does victim profiling do
rapidly assess what we have to gain, willing to risk, and our priorities, strategy, and tactics should be
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What is signal?
way to get victim info fast from bystanders
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Signal acronym
Species, incapacity, gender, number, age, location
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Educated art of examining a situation to determine if civilians can survive the smoke and fire conditions
Survivability profiling
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The act of surveying the battle field to better ascertain the enemy
reconnaissance
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What are the four critical aspects of smoke?
volume, velocity, density, and color
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When reading smoke what is the least reliable predictor of fire progress?
color
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What does a bi-directional flow from a door indicate?
fire is starved for oxygen
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When does vent-point ignition occur?
thick, fuel-laden hot smoke that is too rich to burn reaches outside atmosphere and ignites
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What are the three components of leaders intent?
Task, purpose, end state
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What are the six characteristics of effective communications?
clear, complete, calm, concise, confident, closed
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What does the term "initiate" mean?
working at the task level
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When an officer is assigned to "assume" what does that mean?
working at the tactical level
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A frequency utilized for resources to speak with dispatch and each other for routine daily radio traffic
command channel
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A frequency utilized for units assigned to an incident to speak to each other and or the IC or their tactical supervisor
tactical channel
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Define arrival report IOCAN
identify, object, conditions, actions, and needs
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Size up and communications are interlinked components of what?
risk management
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The greatest life hazard on most commercial fire is?
the firefighters
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Commercial fires are often best attacked at the?
Closest location to the fire as possible
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Who is your safety and accountability officer on the roof and must be an experienced and well trained officer
roof division supervisor
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What is a rain roof
newer roof built over an existing one creating a void space
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Where does the trench cut go when the fire is fast moving and a fire wall is present
leeward side of the fire wall
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Strip malls can be what type of construction depending on the era built?
lightweight or legacy
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building with a retail type business on the ground floor and residence or office above
taxpayer
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Concrete tilt up before 1960 typically had what type of roof construction?
conventional or bowstring truss
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Signs of unreinforced masonry construction?
tie plates, arched recessed windows, white lime mortar, and king rows every four to seven rows
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What is the minimum rapid intervention team on a commercial fire?
engine and truck
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Who also act as safety and accountability officers for the respective areas?
division and group supervisors
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The difference in fire dynamics is in related to what not decades?
materials
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How much faster does a room reach flashover involving synthetic materials instead of natural fibers
8-10 times
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The exchange of thermal energy to the fuel by the mechanisms of conduction, convection, and radiation
heat transfer
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What improves the efficiency of energy transfer to available fuels
the enclosure
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Define heat release rate
the rate at which heat energy is generated by burning
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What is the single most important variable in describing fire hazard
heat release rate
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Thermal and toxic threats are...
cumulative, compounding and dynamic
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An evidence based concept for the fire service to consider implementing into their dept to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and increase knowledge to accomplish their mission
tactical consideration
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When resources permit what can and should proceed simultaneously regardless of the fire attack selected
interior search and rescues
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What percentage of rescued civilians were still alive at the time of reporting?
64%
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What is the chance of survival for victims found and removed in the golden hour of 10 minutes?
50%
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Companies assigned to fire attack make what percentage of rescues and crews assigned search make what percentage?
24% and 57%
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What are incident priorities according to nims?
save lives, stabilized the incident, and protect property
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Average number of victims for fire incidents with a rescue operation?
2
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average victims in single family residence and mfd
1.6 and 2,6
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What are the four critical objectives to give a victim the greatest chance of survival?
fire attack, rescue, ventilation, medical
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What is the coordination of tasks?
tactics
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What is the coordination of tactics?
strategies
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What does NFPA 1700 refer to the step of fire control of water application at the start of a hallway?
interior advancement
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What is FED
Fractional effective dose, describes the percentage of the population for which conditions become untenable
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What is the effective water application rate for a single family dwelling fire 2000 sq feet without basement and no exposures
300 gpm from two handlines with 400 gpm water supply
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What is the effective water application rate for a 1200 sq foot apartment
300 gpm from three handlines and two 400 gpm water supply
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How is a highrise defined?
highest floor greater than 75 feet above lowest level of fire department vehicles
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What is the effective water application rate for open area shopping
500 gpm from three handlines, two 500 gpm water supply
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What is the effective water application rate for high rise?
500 gpm on fire floor from two, 250 from one handline floor above
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Victims located and removed within how many minutes have the greatest chance of survival?
8 min
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Victims located before knock down have what chance of survival>
65% and 40% post knock down
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Type of search where crews enter multiple locations for known victims in unknown locations
pincer search
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What percentage of fire related fatalities are the result of smoke inhalation according to us fire administration
80%
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What are the two most common and deadly fire gases?
carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide
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The CyanoKit raises survivable rate by what percentage?
14%
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The ability to detach from the emotions of the situation and be calm rational focused thoughtful systematic and professional
command maturity
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The ability to exude confidence that inspires your troops to follow you
Command presence
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you must have what to have command presence
command maturity
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The difference between an IWI occurring and the IC responding to it
command lag
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A secondary event that happens during and emergency
incident within an incident
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common sequence of events that occurs in most emergency incidents and fire in which the demand upon the ic and tactical supervisors is increased and the potential to become overwhelmed is greater
incident power curve
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Time it take to accomplish a task once it is identified as necessary to the incident tactical objectives
time to task or time to completion
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Building construction, access, layout and other physical features that can be leveraged to increase the impact of resources to accomplish tactical objectives
tactical points of opportunity
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The act of tactical division and group supervisors being constantly aware of their crews locations and assignments
active accountability
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What is the prerequisite to ventilation?
Water on the fire
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What is the primary purpose of a tactical supervisor
bridge the tactical gap between the IC and the crews working
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What is the ICS formula
building/situation + conditions + resources = ICS template
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Term for house that exceed 3000 sq feet
large estate dwellings aka mcmansions
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What type of construction is characterized by open floorplans tall ceilings false dormer and decor that can be massed produced
large estate dwellings aka macmansions
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What must first due officers due prior to giving a verbal arrival report
perform a size up with fpodp or first
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The act of restraining oneself in the moment to consider alternative options that could make conditions more favorable
Tactical discipline
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What is the most effective way to control knee wall fires
Control the source fire and cool the gases
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In what strategy is the transitional attack tactic executed
offensive strategy
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If a deck gun is required it is by definition___a transitional attack
not
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Apartments that are designed to have the door to each individual unit open to the outside
Garden style appartments
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Apartments that are designed to have the door to each individual unit open to an interior enclosed hallway
Center hall apartments
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Center hall type of structure comprised typically of multiple stories with enclosed stairwells and interior hallways that access rooms
hotel
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How many victims will likely be found if one is found in a MFD
three
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