FIREFIGHTER 2 CORRECT EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Wedges - ✔✔Used to tighten up loose cribbing.
✔✔Rescue-lift airbags - ✔✔Pneumatic filled bladders made out of rubber or synthetic
material.
✔✔Laminated glass - ✔✔Glass that is used in windshields of cars.
✔✔Tempered glass - ✔✔Glass used in side and rear windows in a vehicle. Shatter into
little pieces.
✔✔NFPA 921 - ✔✔A scientific method and a systematic analysis are needed to
determine the origin and cause of a fire.
✔✔Physical evidence - ✔✔Items that can be observed, photographed, measured,
collected, examined in a laboratory and presented in court to prove or demonstrate a
point.
✔✔Trace evidence - ✔✔A minute quantity of physical evidence that is conveyed from
one place to another. Ex. A suspects clothing.
✔✔Demonstrative evidence - ✔✔Anything that can be used to validate a theory or to
show how something could have occurred.
✔✔Direct evidence - ✔✔Facts that can be observed or reported first-hand.
✔✔Circumstantial evidence - ✔✔Is information that can be used to prove a theory;
based on facts that were observed directly.
✔✔Arsonist - ✔✔A person that deliberately sets a fire with criminal intent.
✔✔Pyromaniac - ✔✔A pathological fire setter.
, ✔✔Serial arsons - ✔✔Involves an offender who sets 3 or more fires, with a cooling off
period before fires.
✔✔Spree arsons - ✔✔Involves an arsonist who sets 3 or more fire at separate
locations, with no emotional cooling off between fires.
✔✔Mass arsons - ✔✔Involves an offender who sets 3 or more fires at the same site or
location during a limited period of time.
✔✔Six motives for arson - ✔✔Vandalism, excitement, revenge, crime concealment,
profit, extremism.
✔✔ Responsibilities for FF 2 - ✔✔Prepare reports, communicate the need for
assistance, coordinate an interior attack line team, extinguish an ignitable liquid fire,
control a flammable gas cylinder fire, protect evidence of fire cause and origin, access
and disentangle victims from motor vehicle accidents, assist special rescue team
operations, perform a fire safety survey, present fire safety information, maintain fire
equipment, perform annual service tests on fire hoses
✔✔Emergency traffic - ✔✔An urgent message that takes priority over all other
communications
✔✔Mayday - ✔✔Emergency traffic that is used for a firefighter that is downed, lost,
missing or needs immediate assistance.
✔✔Evacuation signal - ✔✔Warns all personnel to pull back to a safe location. Usually a
sequence of 3 blasts on an apparatus air horn.
✔✔National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) - ✔✔Used to compile and analyze
incident reports at the local, state, and national levels.
✔✔NIMS Guide 0001 - ✔✔National resource typing criteria. NIMS document that lists
the proper terminology for the common resources used at large-scale emergencies.
✔✔Strategy - ✔✔The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
✔✔Tactics - ✔✔The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic objectives.
✔✔Tasks - ✔✔The specific assignments that will get the job done.
✔✔Search and rescue tools - ✔✔Pushing tool (short like pole), prying tool (halligan
tool), striking tool (sledgehammer or flat-head axe), cutting tool (axe), portable hand
light, thermal imaging devices, life lines.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Wedges - ✔✔Used to tighten up loose cribbing.
✔✔Rescue-lift airbags - ✔✔Pneumatic filled bladders made out of rubber or synthetic
material.
✔✔Laminated glass - ✔✔Glass that is used in windshields of cars.
✔✔Tempered glass - ✔✔Glass used in side and rear windows in a vehicle. Shatter into
little pieces.
✔✔NFPA 921 - ✔✔A scientific method and a systematic analysis are needed to
determine the origin and cause of a fire.
✔✔Physical evidence - ✔✔Items that can be observed, photographed, measured,
collected, examined in a laboratory and presented in court to prove or demonstrate a
point.
✔✔Trace evidence - ✔✔A minute quantity of physical evidence that is conveyed from
one place to another. Ex. A suspects clothing.
✔✔Demonstrative evidence - ✔✔Anything that can be used to validate a theory or to
show how something could have occurred.
✔✔Direct evidence - ✔✔Facts that can be observed or reported first-hand.
✔✔Circumstantial evidence - ✔✔Is information that can be used to prove a theory;
based on facts that were observed directly.
✔✔Arsonist - ✔✔A person that deliberately sets a fire with criminal intent.
✔✔Pyromaniac - ✔✔A pathological fire setter.
, ✔✔Serial arsons - ✔✔Involves an offender who sets 3 or more fires, with a cooling off
period before fires.
✔✔Spree arsons - ✔✔Involves an arsonist who sets 3 or more fire at separate
locations, with no emotional cooling off between fires.
✔✔Mass arsons - ✔✔Involves an offender who sets 3 or more fires at the same site or
location during a limited period of time.
✔✔Six motives for arson - ✔✔Vandalism, excitement, revenge, crime concealment,
profit, extremism.
✔✔ Responsibilities for FF 2 - ✔✔Prepare reports, communicate the need for
assistance, coordinate an interior attack line team, extinguish an ignitable liquid fire,
control a flammable gas cylinder fire, protect evidence of fire cause and origin, access
and disentangle victims from motor vehicle accidents, assist special rescue team
operations, perform a fire safety survey, present fire safety information, maintain fire
equipment, perform annual service tests on fire hoses
✔✔Emergency traffic - ✔✔An urgent message that takes priority over all other
communications
✔✔Mayday - ✔✔Emergency traffic that is used for a firefighter that is downed, lost,
missing or needs immediate assistance.
✔✔Evacuation signal - ✔✔Warns all personnel to pull back to a safe location. Usually a
sequence of 3 blasts on an apparatus air horn.
✔✔National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) - ✔✔Used to compile and analyze
incident reports at the local, state, and national levels.
✔✔NIMS Guide 0001 - ✔✔National resource typing criteria. NIMS document that lists
the proper terminology for the common resources used at large-scale emergencies.
✔✔Strategy - ✔✔The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
✔✔Tactics - ✔✔The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic objectives.
✔✔Tasks - ✔✔The specific assignments that will get the job done.
✔✔Search and rescue tools - ✔✔Pushing tool (short like pole), prying tool (halligan
tool), striking tool (sledgehammer or flat-head axe), cutting tool (axe), portable hand
light, thermal imaging devices, life lines.
