ESSENTIALS OF FIRE FIGHTING UPDATED FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Fire apparatus driver/operator - ✔✔Personnel trained to drive fire apparatus to and
from fires and other emergencies. They must be able to operate fire-apparatus pumps
and aerial devices, and are responsible for servicing and maintaining the apparatus.
✔✔Hazardous Materials Technician - ✔✔A person who responds to incidents involving
dangerous materials.
✔✔Rescue Technician - ✔✔Certified to handle high-angle rope rescue, trench,
structural collapse, confined space, vehicle and machinery, water, ice rescue, and cave
or mine rescues.
✔✔Airport Firefighter - ✔✔Protects life and property, controls fire hazards, and performs
general duties related to airport operations and aircraft safety
✔✔Wildland Firefighter - ✔✔Personnel trained to extinguish fires in outdoor vegetation,
including the wildland/urban interface.
✔✔Emergency Medical Services Personnel - ✔✔are responsible for administering
prehospital care to people who are sick and injured. Prehospital calls make up the
majority of responses in most fire departments, and they are cross-trained as fire
fighters.
✔✔Company officer - ✔✔The officer, or any other position of comparable responsibility
in the department, in charge of a fire department company or station
✔✔District/Battalion Chief - ✔✔Personnel who supervise a group of fire companies and
stations. They may also manage units responsible for logistics, fire prevention, training,
planning, or other functions.
✔✔Assistant/Deputy Chief - ✔✔Personnel who manage a variety of upper level
functions, such as emergency operations, administration, fire prevention, or training.
✔✔Fire Marshals - ✔✔Personnel who manage the fire prevention, plans review, and
investigation divisions.
✔✔Fire Cheif - ✔✔person responsible for all operations within the department.
✔✔Code Enforcement - ✔✔Process of enforcing a body of law aimed at reduing fire
and life-safety hazards a well as mandating the proper installation and maintenance of
building/structure fire and life-safety features to provide adequate community fire
prevention.
, ✔✔Plans Review - ✔✔Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to
determine the safety characteristics of the proposed building generally done before
permission is granted to begin construction
✔✔Community Risk Reduction (CRR) - ✔✔A comprehensive all-hazard, unifying
approach that includes programs, actions, and services used by a community, which
prevent or mitigate the loss of life, property, and resources associated with life safety,
fire, and other disasters within a community.
✔✔policy - ✔✔a guide to decision-making within an organization
✔✔Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - ✔✔specific sets of written instructions
about how to perform a certain aspect of a task
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Knowledge and understanding of your surroundings and
situation and the risk they potentially pose to your safety or the safety of the EMS team.
✔✔Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) - ✔✔Description of any
atmosphere that poses an immediate hazard to life or produces immediate, irreversible,
debilitating effects on health.
✔✔Risk Management Plan - ✔✔A plan that documents the procedures for managing
risk throughout a project
✔✔chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - ✔✔permanent, destructive
pulmonary disorder that is a combination of chronic bronchitis and emphysema
✔✔Carcinogen - ✔✔A cancer-causing substance
✔✔Body Substance Isolation (BSI) - ✔✔An infection control concept and practice that
assumes that all body fluids are potentially infectious.
✔✔Hot zone - ✔✔area immediately surrounding a hazmat incident; extends far enough
to prevent adverse effects outside the zone
✔✔warm zone - ✔✔area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot
zone support take place; it includes control points for the access corridor and thus
assists in reducing the spread of contamination.
✔✔Cold Zone (Support Zone) - ✔✔The area outside the warm zone (decontamination
zone) where no hazards exist to victims or other personnel and where vehicle staging
and treatment areas are located.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Fire apparatus driver/operator - ✔✔Personnel trained to drive fire apparatus to and
from fires and other emergencies. They must be able to operate fire-apparatus pumps
and aerial devices, and are responsible for servicing and maintaining the apparatus.
✔✔Hazardous Materials Technician - ✔✔A person who responds to incidents involving
dangerous materials.
✔✔Rescue Technician - ✔✔Certified to handle high-angle rope rescue, trench,
structural collapse, confined space, vehicle and machinery, water, ice rescue, and cave
or mine rescues.
✔✔Airport Firefighter - ✔✔Protects life and property, controls fire hazards, and performs
general duties related to airport operations and aircraft safety
✔✔Wildland Firefighter - ✔✔Personnel trained to extinguish fires in outdoor vegetation,
including the wildland/urban interface.
✔✔Emergency Medical Services Personnel - ✔✔are responsible for administering
prehospital care to people who are sick and injured. Prehospital calls make up the
majority of responses in most fire departments, and they are cross-trained as fire
fighters.
✔✔Company officer - ✔✔The officer, or any other position of comparable responsibility
in the department, in charge of a fire department company or station
✔✔District/Battalion Chief - ✔✔Personnel who supervise a group of fire companies and
stations. They may also manage units responsible for logistics, fire prevention, training,
planning, or other functions.
✔✔Assistant/Deputy Chief - ✔✔Personnel who manage a variety of upper level
functions, such as emergency operations, administration, fire prevention, or training.
✔✔Fire Marshals - ✔✔Personnel who manage the fire prevention, plans review, and
investigation divisions.
✔✔Fire Cheif - ✔✔person responsible for all operations within the department.
✔✔Code Enforcement - ✔✔Process of enforcing a body of law aimed at reduing fire
and life-safety hazards a well as mandating the proper installation and maintenance of
building/structure fire and life-safety features to provide adequate community fire
prevention.
, ✔✔Plans Review - ✔✔Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to
determine the safety characteristics of the proposed building generally done before
permission is granted to begin construction
✔✔Community Risk Reduction (CRR) - ✔✔A comprehensive all-hazard, unifying
approach that includes programs, actions, and services used by a community, which
prevent or mitigate the loss of life, property, and resources associated with life safety,
fire, and other disasters within a community.
✔✔policy - ✔✔a guide to decision-making within an organization
✔✔Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - ✔✔specific sets of written instructions
about how to perform a certain aspect of a task
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Knowledge and understanding of your surroundings and
situation and the risk they potentially pose to your safety or the safety of the EMS team.
✔✔Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) - ✔✔Description of any
atmosphere that poses an immediate hazard to life or produces immediate, irreversible,
debilitating effects on health.
✔✔Risk Management Plan - ✔✔A plan that documents the procedures for managing
risk throughout a project
✔✔chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - ✔✔permanent, destructive
pulmonary disorder that is a combination of chronic bronchitis and emphysema
✔✔Carcinogen - ✔✔A cancer-causing substance
✔✔Body Substance Isolation (BSI) - ✔✔An infection control concept and practice that
assumes that all body fluids are potentially infectious.
✔✔Hot zone - ✔✔area immediately surrounding a hazmat incident; extends far enough
to prevent adverse effects outside the zone
✔✔warm zone - ✔✔area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot
zone support take place; it includes control points for the access corridor and thus
assists in reducing the spread of contamination.
✔✔Cold Zone (Support Zone) - ✔✔The area outside the warm zone (decontamination
zone) where no hazards exist to victims or other personnel and where vehicle staging
and treatment areas are located.
