FIRE ACADEMY END OF COURSE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Crowd Control - ✔✔Limiting the access of nonemergency personnel to the
emergency scene.
✔✔Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - ✔✔Program to help employees and their
families with work or personal problems.
✔✔Hazard - ✔✔Condition, substance, or device that can directly cause injury or loss;
source of a risk.
✔✔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.
✔✔Mitigate - ✔✔To make less harsh or intense; to alleviate.
✔✔Rehabilitation (Rehab) - ✔✔Allowing firefighters to rest, rehydrate, and recover
during an incident.
✔✔Risk Management Plan - ✔✔Written plan that analyzes the exposure to hazards,
implements appropriate risk management techniques, and establishes criteria for
monitoring their effectiveness.
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Perception of the surrounding environment, and the
ability to anticipate future events.
✔✔Standard of Care - ✔✔Level of care that all persons should receive; care that does
not meet this standard is considered inadequate.
✔✔Stressor - ✔✔Any agent, condition, or experience that causes stress.
✔✔Training Evolution - ✔✔Operation of fire and emergency services training covering
one or several aspects of fire fighting.
✔✔Alarm Assignment - ✔✔Predetermined number and type of fire units assigned to
respond to an emergency.
✔✔Automatic Location Identification (ALI) - ✔✔Enhanced 9-1-1 feature that displays the
address of the party calling 9-1-1 on a screen for use by the public safety
telecommunicator. This feature is also used to route calls to the appropriate public
safety answering point (PSAP) and can even store information in its database regarding
,the appropriate emergency services (police, fire, and medical) that respond to that
address.
✔✔Base Station Radios - ✔✔Fixed, nonmobile radio at a central location.
✔✔Clear Text - ✔✔Use of plain language, including certain standard words and
phrases, in radio communications transmissions.
✔✔Global Positioning System (GPS) - ✔✔System for determining position on the
earth's surface by calculating the difference in time for the signal from a number of
satellites to reach a receiver on the ground.
✔✔Intrinsically Safe Equipment - ✔✔Equipment designed and approved for use in
flammable atmospheres that is incapable of releasing sufficient electrical energy to
cause the ignition of a flammable atmospheric mixture.
✔✔National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) - ✔✔One of the main sources of
information about fires in the United States; local fire departments collect fire incident
data and send these to a state coordinator, who develops statewide fire incident data
and also forwards information to the USFA.
✔✔Personnel Accountability Report (PAR) - ✔✔Roll call of all units assigned to an
incident.
✔✔Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) - ✔✔Any location or facility at which 9-1-1
calls are answered either by direct calling, rerouting, or diversion.
✔✔Balloon Frame Construction - ✔✔A construction method using long continuous
studs that run from the sill plate to the roof eave lines. All intermediate floor structures
are attached to the studs. Requires the use of long lumber and generally lacks any type
of fire stopping within the wall cavity.
✔✔Cockloft - ✔✔Concealed space between the top floor and the roof or a structure.
✔✔Curtain Wall - ✔✔A nonload-bearing wall, often of glass and steel, fixed to the
outside of a building and serving especially as cladding.
✔✔Dead Load - ✔✔Weight of the structure, structural members, building components,
and any other features permanently attached to the building that are constant and
immobile.
✔✔Eave - ✔✔The edge of a pitched roof that overhangs an outside wall. Attic vents in
typical _______ provide an avenue for an exterior fire to enter the attic.
, ✔✔Fire Stop - ✔✔Solid materials, such as wood blocks, used to prevent or limit the
vertical and horizontal spread of fire and the products of combustion in hollow walls or
floors, above false ceilings, in penetrations for plumbing or electrical installations, in
penetrations of a fire-rated assembly, or in cocklofts and crawl spaces.
✔✔Fire Wall - ✔✔Fire-rated wall with a specified degree of fire resistance, built of fire-
resistive materials and usually extending from the foundation up to and through the roof
of a building, that is designed to limit the spread of a fire within a structure or between
adjacent structures.
✔✔Fire-Resistance Rating - ✔✔Rating assigned to a material or assembly after
standardized testing by an independent testing organization; identifies the amount of
time a material or assembly will resist a typical fire, as measured on a standard time-
temperature curve.
✔✔Green Wood - ✔✔Wood with high moisture content.
✔✔Gusset Plates - ✔✔Metal or wooden plates used to connect and strengthen the
joints of two or more separate components (such as metal or wooden truss components
or roof or floor components) into a load-bearing unit.
✔✔Hybrid Construction - ✔✔Type of building construction that uses renewable,
environmentally friendly or recycled materials.
✔✔Joists - ✔✔Horizontal structural members used to support a ceiling or floor. Drywall
materials are nailed or screwed to the ceiling joists and the subfloor is nailed or screwed
to the floor joists.
✔✔Lightweight Steel Truss - ✔✔Structural support made from a long steel bar that is
bent at a 90-degree angle with flat or angular pieces welded to the top and bottom.
✔✔Lightweight Wood Truss - ✔✔Structural supports constructed of 2x3 inch or 2x4 inch
members that are connected by gusset plates.
✔✔Live Load - ✔✔Items within a building that are movable but are not included as a
permanent part of the structure; merchandise, stock, furnishings, occupants, firefighters,
and the water used for fire suppression. Force places upon a structure by the addition of
people, objects, or weather.
✔✔Load-Bearing Wall - ✔✔Walls of a building that by design carry at a least some part
of the structural load of the building in the direction of the ground or base.
✔✔Masonry - ✔✔Bricks, blocks, stones, and unreinforced and reinforced concrete
products.
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Crowd Control - ✔✔Limiting the access of nonemergency personnel to the
emergency scene.
✔✔Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - ✔✔Program to help employees and their
families with work or personal problems.
✔✔Hazard - ✔✔Condition, substance, or device that can directly cause injury or loss;
source of a risk.
✔✔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.
✔✔Mitigate - ✔✔To make less harsh or intense; to alleviate.
✔✔Rehabilitation (Rehab) - ✔✔Allowing firefighters to rest, rehydrate, and recover
during an incident.
✔✔Risk Management Plan - ✔✔Written plan that analyzes the exposure to hazards,
implements appropriate risk management techniques, and establishes criteria for
monitoring their effectiveness.
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Perception of the surrounding environment, and the
ability to anticipate future events.
✔✔Standard of Care - ✔✔Level of care that all persons should receive; care that does
not meet this standard is considered inadequate.
✔✔Stressor - ✔✔Any agent, condition, or experience that causes stress.
✔✔Training Evolution - ✔✔Operation of fire and emergency services training covering
one or several aspects of fire fighting.
✔✔Alarm Assignment - ✔✔Predetermined number and type of fire units assigned to
respond to an emergency.
✔✔Automatic Location Identification (ALI) - ✔✔Enhanced 9-1-1 feature that displays the
address of the party calling 9-1-1 on a screen for use by the public safety
telecommunicator. This feature is also used to route calls to the appropriate public
safety answering point (PSAP) and can even store information in its database regarding
,the appropriate emergency services (police, fire, and medical) that respond to that
address.
✔✔Base Station Radios - ✔✔Fixed, nonmobile radio at a central location.
✔✔Clear Text - ✔✔Use of plain language, including certain standard words and
phrases, in radio communications transmissions.
✔✔Global Positioning System (GPS) - ✔✔System for determining position on the
earth's surface by calculating the difference in time for the signal from a number of
satellites to reach a receiver on the ground.
✔✔Intrinsically Safe Equipment - ✔✔Equipment designed and approved for use in
flammable atmospheres that is incapable of releasing sufficient electrical energy to
cause the ignition of a flammable atmospheric mixture.
✔✔National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) - ✔✔One of the main sources of
information about fires in the United States; local fire departments collect fire incident
data and send these to a state coordinator, who develops statewide fire incident data
and also forwards information to the USFA.
✔✔Personnel Accountability Report (PAR) - ✔✔Roll call of all units assigned to an
incident.
✔✔Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) - ✔✔Any location or facility at which 9-1-1
calls are answered either by direct calling, rerouting, or diversion.
✔✔Balloon Frame Construction - ✔✔A construction method using long continuous
studs that run from the sill plate to the roof eave lines. All intermediate floor structures
are attached to the studs. Requires the use of long lumber and generally lacks any type
of fire stopping within the wall cavity.
✔✔Cockloft - ✔✔Concealed space between the top floor and the roof or a structure.
✔✔Curtain Wall - ✔✔A nonload-bearing wall, often of glass and steel, fixed to the
outside of a building and serving especially as cladding.
✔✔Dead Load - ✔✔Weight of the structure, structural members, building components,
and any other features permanently attached to the building that are constant and
immobile.
✔✔Eave - ✔✔The edge of a pitched roof that overhangs an outside wall. Attic vents in
typical _______ provide an avenue for an exterior fire to enter the attic.
, ✔✔Fire Stop - ✔✔Solid materials, such as wood blocks, used to prevent or limit the
vertical and horizontal spread of fire and the products of combustion in hollow walls or
floors, above false ceilings, in penetrations for plumbing or electrical installations, in
penetrations of a fire-rated assembly, or in cocklofts and crawl spaces.
✔✔Fire Wall - ✔✔Fire-rated wall with a specified degree of fire resistance, built of fire-
resistive materials and usually extending from the foundation up to and through the roof
of a building, that is designed to limit the spread of a fire within a structure or between
adjacent structures.
✔✔Fire-Resistance Rating - ✔✔Rating assigned to a material or assembly after
standardized testing by an independent testing organization; identifies the amount of
time a material or assembly will resist a typical fire, as measured on a standard time-
temperature curve.
✔✔Green Wood - ✔✔Wood with high moisture content.
✔✔Gusset Plates - ✔✔Metal or wooden plates used to connect and strengthen the
joints of two or more separate components (such as metal or wooden truss components
or roof or floor components) into a load-bearing unit.
✔✔Hybrid Construction - ✔✔Type of building construction that uses renewable,
environmentally friendly or recycled materials.
✔✔Joists - ✔✔Horizontal structural members used to support a ceiling or floor. Drywall
materials are nailed or screwed to the ceiling joists and the subfloor is nailed or screwed
to the floor joists.
✔✔Lightweight Steel Truss - ✔✔Structural support made from a long steel bar that is
bent at a 90-degree angle with flat or angular pieces welded to the top and bottom.
✔✔Lightweight Wood Truss - ✔✔Structural supports constructed of 2x3 inch or 2x4 inch
members that are connected by gusset plates.
✔✔Live Load - ✔✔Items within a building that are movable but are not included as a
permanent part of the structure; merchandise, stock, furnishings, occupants, firefighters,
and the water used for fire suppression. Force places upon a structure by the addition of
people, objects, or weather.
✔✔Load-Bearing Wall - ✔✔Walls of a building that by design carry at a least some part
of the structural load of the building in the direction of the ground or base.
✔✔Masonry - ✔✔Bricks, blocks, stones, and unreinforced and reinforced concrete
products.
