FIREFIGHTER 1 PAPER ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Reducer - ✔✔Fitting used to attach a smaller hose to a larger hose. The female end
has the larger threads, while the male end has the smaller threads.
✔✔Saponification - ✔✔A phenomenon that occurs when mixtures of alkaline based
chemicals and certain cooking oils come into contact resulting in the formation of a
soapy film.
✔✔Siamese - ✔✔Hose appliance used to combine two or more hoselines into one. The
siamese generally has female inlets and a male outlet and is commonly used to supply
the hose leading to a ladder pipe.
✔✔Spanner wrench - ✔✔Small tool primarily used to tighten or loosen hose couplings;
can also be used as a prying tool or a gas key.
✔✔Standpipe system - ✔✔Wet or dry system of pipes in a large single-story or
multistory building with fire hose outlets installed in different areas or on different levels
of a building to be used by firefighters and/or building occupants. The system is used to
provide for quick deployment of hoselines during fire fighting operations.
✔✔Storz coupling - ✔✔Nonthreaded (sexless) coupling commonly found on large-
diameter hose.
✔✔Trench ventilation - ✔✔Defensive tactic that involves cutting an exhaust opening in
the roof of a burning building, extending from one outside wall to the other, to create an
opening at which a spreading fire may be cut off.
✔✔ Electrical generators - ✔✔What is the most common power source used my
emergency services personnel?
, ✔✔Utility rope - ✔✔Rope that is only used in situations not involving life safety
✔✔Once a year - ✔✔How often should unused rope be inspected?
✔✔Tubular - ✔✔What kind of webbing is mainly used for rescue applications?
✔✔Running - ✔✔Which part of the rope is used for hoisting?
✔✔Pulley - ✔✔Which piece of equipment is best used to provide a mechanical
advantage during hoisting?
✔✔Color of smoke - ✔✔Which sensory clue indicates both the type of fuel and phase of
a fire?
✔✔Search for life, assess fire conditions - ✔✔What are the two objectives for a
structural search?
✔✔After initial fire suppression - ✔✔When is the secondary search performed?
✔✔Navigator - ✔✔When using the wide area search method, the lead is accompanied
by the:
✔✔20 feet - ✔✔When using the wide area search method, a steel ring is tied to the
search line every:
✔✔Two to four - ✔✔How many rescuers may be needed to safely carry an adult?
✔✔Activate PASS device - ✔✔Which of the following actions should a firefighter
immediately take after transmitting a MAYDAY report?
✔✔Water source - ✔✔When escaping, the male coupling is on which side?
✔✔Kernmantle - ✔✔Life safety rope
✔✔PASS - ✔✔Acronym for use of a fire extinguisher
✔✔Smothering - ✔✔Which method of extinguishing works by excluding oxygen from the
burning process?
✔✔Endothermic - ✔✔What type of reaction absorbs energy as it occurs?
✔✔Piloted - ✔✔What is the most common form of ignition?
SET A+
✔✔Reducer - ✔✔Fitting used to attach a smaller hose to a larger hose. The female end
has the larger threads, while the male end has the smaller threads.
✔✔Saponification - ✔✔A phenomenon that occurs when mixtures of alkaline based
chemicals and certain cooking oils come into contact resulting in the formation of a
soapy film.
✔✔Siamese - ✔✔Hose appliance used to combine two or more hoselines into one. The
siamese generally has female inlets and a male outlet and is commonly used to supply
the hose leading to a ladder pipe.
✔✔Spanner wrench - ✔✔Small tool primarily used to tighten or loosen hose couplings;
can also be used as a prying tool or a gas key.
✔✔Standpipe system - ✔✔Wet or dry system of pipes in a large single-story or
multistory building with fire hose outlets installed in different areas or on different levels
of a building to be used by firefighters and/or building occupants. The system is used to
provide for quick deployment of hoselines during fire fighting operations.
✔✔Storz coupling - ✔✔Nonthreaded (sexless) coupling commonly found on large-
diameter hose.
✔✔Trench ventilation - ✔✔Defensive tactic that involves cutting an exhaust opening in
the roof of a burning building, extending from one outside wall to the other, to create an
opening at which a spreading fire may be cut off.
✔✔ Electrical generators - ✔✔What is the most common power source used my
emergency services personnel?
, ✔✔Utility rope - ✔✔Rope that is only used in situations not involving life safety
✔✔Once a year - ✔✔How often should unused rope be inspected?
✔✔Tubular - ✔✔What kind of webbing is mainly used for rescue applications?
✔✔Running - ✔✔Which part of the rope is used for hoisting?
✔✔Pulley - ✔✔Which piece of equipment is best used to provide a mechanical
advantage during hoisting?
✔✔Color of smoke - ✔✔Which sensory clue indicates both the type of fuel and phase of
a fire?
✔✔Search for life, assess fire conditions - ✔✔What are the two objectives for a
structural search?
✔✔After initial fire suppression - ✔✔When is the secondary search performed?
✔✔Navigator - ✔✔When using the wide area search method, the lead is accompanied
by the:
✔✔20 feet - ✔✔When using the wide area search method, a steel ring is tied to the
search line every:
✔✔Two to four - ✔✔How many rescuers may be needed to safely carry an adult?
✔✔Activate PASS device - ✔✔Which of the following actions should a firefighter
immediately take after transmitting a MAYDAY report?
✔✔Water source - ✔✔When escaping, the male coupling is on which side?
✔✔Kernmantle - ✔✔Life safety rope
✔✔PASS - ✔✔Acronym for use of a fire extinguisher
✔✔Smothering - ✔✔Which method of extinguishing works by excluding oxygen from the
burning process?
✔✔Endothermic - ✔✔What type of reaction absorbs energy as it occurs?
✔✔Piloted - ✔✔What is the most common form of ignition?
