Firefighter 2 (Certification Exam)
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Responsibilities for FF 2 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An urgent message that takes priority over
all other communications
Mayday - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Emergency traffic that is used for a firefighter that is
downed, lost, missing or needs immediate assistance.
Evacuation signal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Used to
compile and analyze incident reports at the local, state, and national levels.
NIMS Guide 0001 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- National resource typing criteria. NIMS
document that lists the proper terminology for the common resources used at large-scale
emergencies.
Strategy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
Tactics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic
objectives.
Tasks - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The specific assignments that will get the job done.
, Search and rescue tools - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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.
Tool staging - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Placing a tarp or salvage cover on the ground at a
designated location and laying out commonly used tools and equipment.
Carabiner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Used to connect one rope to another rope or to other
hardware such as an anchor plate, swivel, or pulley. NFPA 1983
Harness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A piece of rescue or safety equipment made of
webbing and worn by a person.
Class 2 harness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Seat harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist
and legs and has a design load of 600 lbs.
Class 3 harness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Full body harness. Fastens around the rescuers
waist and thighs as well as secures the rescuers waist and shoulders.
Trench rescue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rescue in collapsed trenches.
Confined space rescue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rescue in tanks, silos, underground
electrical vaults storm drains and other similar structures.
Water rescue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Throwing a rope to a person in the water and
pulling them to shore, a rope stretched across a stream or river, a boat going to get a victim.
Venting for life safety - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Venting to clear smoke, heat, and toxic
gasses from the structure to give occupants a better chance to survive.
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Responsibilities for FF 2 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An urgent message that takes priority over
all other communications
Mayday - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Emergency traffic that is used for a firefighter that is
downed, lost, missing or needs immediate assistance.
Evacuation signal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Used to
compile and analyze incident reports at the local, state, and national levels.
NIMS Guide 0001 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- National resource typing criteria. NIMS
document that lists the proper terminology for the common resources used at large-scale
emergencies.
Strategy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
Tactics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic
objectives.
Tasks - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The specific assignments that will get the job done.
, Search and rescue tools - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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.
Tool staging - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Placing a tarp or salvage cover on the ground at a
designated location and laying out commonly used tools and equipment.
Carabiner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Used to connect one rope to another rope or to other
hardware such as an anchor plate, swivel, or pulley. NFPA 1983
Harness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A piece of rescue or safety equipment made of
webbing and worn by a person.
Class 2 harness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Seat harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist
and legs and has a design load of 600 lbs.
Class 3 harness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Full body harness. Fastens around the rescuers
waist and thighs as well as secures the rescuers waist and shoulders.
Trench rescue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rescue in collapsed trenches.
Confined space rescue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rescue in tanks, silos, underground
electrical vaults storm drains and other similar structures.
Water rescue - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Throwing a rope to a person in the water and
pulling them to shore, a rope stretched across a stream or river, a boat going to get a victim.
Venting for life safety - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Venting to clear smoke, heat, and toxic
gasses from the structure to give occupants a better chance to survive.
