JATC 1B Test Prep Questions With
Outlined Answers
\.Scenes of Violence - Answer- Any type of incident in which Fire Department/EMS members
may be exposed to harm as a result of violent or threatening act(s). Such situations may include,
but are not limited to: riots, fights, violent crimes, suicides, domestic disagreements, any
weapon caused injuries, or any other circumstance under which fire department personnel may
reasonably fear for their safety
\.Hard Barriers: - Answer- Defined as objects that will both hide you and stop bullets, such as
a building
\.Body Armor - Answer- vest made of tightly woven, strong fibers that offer protection
against handgun bullets, most knives, and blunt trauma; also known as "bullet-proof vests."
\.Secure Scene. - Answer- Fire/EMS personnel shall not approach or enter the scene until
they receive a report from police on location, either through fire dispatch or by face-to-face
confirmation from police at the staging area where fire units are located
\.Headquarters- - Answer- is essentially the same thing as code 3, is you say ________ on the
radio it will be treated as a lift threatening emergency and you will receive as many cops as
possible
\.Cover - Answer- is anything that can protect you from an incoming projectile, either by
stopping it or deflecting it
,\.Concealment - Answer- is anything that simply hides you from being seen or detected by
someone.
\.Abandon: - Answer- An immediate and rapid exit from the hazardous zone or structure. This
may require sacrificing or discarding equipment in order to facilitate the immediate and rapid
exit. Firefighters may have to continue operation of hose lines to protect lives and effect a safe
abandoned operation. Companies or crews abandoning the hazard zone will take only the tools,
equipment and hose lines necessary to permit emergency egress. Firefighters should make
every effort should be made to exit as a team.
\.Withdraw: - Answer- This is a planned or orderly ________/removal of firefighters from the
hazardous zone or structure. Firefighters generally should exit as a company or team with all
hose, tools and equipment.
\.key features of operating on a divided highway - Answer- Always stay very alert to all traffic
while working on and off any roadways, always use a rig to block the scene, always have on the
proper reflective gear, turn off any unnecessary lights that prevent drivers from seeing, use flairs
and cones to warn drivers of the incident ahead.
\.Vehicle placement - Answer- first arriving until should block the scene, placing their unit at
an 45 degree angle to insure that if a vehicle were to hit the unit it would deflect the vehicle
away from the scene
\.All aid cars/ medics should - Answer- past the scene so that once a PT is loaded they are
protected and it also makes pulling back into traffic much more safe.
\.Once the Emergency Button is pressed on a portable radio - Answer- That radio will then go
into a mayday mode (EMER ZONE 3) (All the way to right on the dial then back one A bank
channel 15) and be treated as such until further communication
, \.The emergency button is made to - Answer- alert dispatch that there is an emergency even
if you cant talk on the radio.
\.Once the Emergency button is pressed the radio will automatically push you off of - Answer-
the channel it was on and it will kick you to an Emergency talk group depicted channel, at
the same time it will alert dispatch that something is wrong and dispatch will alert the IC
\.If the radio can not transmit out on - Answer- a talk group channel the user must change to
a simplex channel manually.
\.The Emergency button will not work if - Answer- the radio is already on a simplex channel, if
the radio is out of range of the 800 MHz system, of if the system is in site trunking or failsafe
\.how to turn off emergency mode on your radio - Answer- Contact Dispatch to reset radio or
turn radio on and off
\.conventional radio system - Answer- the users manually control the allocation of channels
by selecting from a knob, conventional radio frequency that is depicted to a single function like
operations, because this frequency is dedicated to only one us and no other function or unit can
be transmitted on it, even is on one is using it.
\.trunked radio system. - Answer- a computer at the center of the network is responsible for
channel selection. Making it much more practical. A _____ system uses repeaters to rout calls
which allows a ______ system is handel a much higher volume of calls
\.Fire 1 - Answer- dispatch -primary talk group
\.Fire 2: - Answer- Aid calls
Outlined Answers
\.Scenes of Violence - Answer- Any type of incident in which Fire Department/EMS members
may be exposed to harm as a result of violent or threatening act(s). Such situations may include,
but are not limited to: riots, fights, violent crimes, suicides, domestic disagreements, any
weapon caused injuries, or any other circumstance under which fire department personnel may
reasonably fear for their safety
\.Hard Barriers: - Answer- Defined as objects that will both hide you and stop bullets, such as
a building
\.Body Armor - Answer- vest made of tightly woven, strong fibers that offer protection
against handgun bullets, most knives, and blunt trauma; also known as "bullet-proof vests."
\.Secure Scene. - Answer- Fire/EMS personnel shall not approach or enter the scene until
they receive a report from police on location, either through fire dispatch or by face-to-face
confirmation from police at the staging area where fire units are located
\.Headquarters- - Answer- is essentially the same thing as code 3, is you say ________ on the
radio it will be treated as a lift threatening emergency and you will receive as many cops as
possible
\.Cover - Answer- is anything that can protect you from an incoming projectile, either by
stopping it or deflecting it
,\.Concealment - Answer- is anything that simply hides you from being seen or detected by
someone.
\.Abandon: - Answer- An immediate and rapid exit from the hazardous zone or structure. This
may require sacrificing or discarding equipment in order to facilitate the immediate and rapid
exit. Firefighters may have to continue operation of hose lines to protect lives and effect a safe
abandoned operation. Companies or crews abandoning the hazard zone will take only the tools,
equipment and hose lines necessary to permit emergency egress. Firefighters should make
every effort should be made to exit as a team.
\.Withdraw: - Answer- This is a planned or orderly ________/removal of firefighters from the
hazardous zone or structure. Firefighters generally should exit as a company or team with all
hose, tools and equipment.
\.key features of operating on a divided highway - Answer- Always stay very alert to all traffic
while working on and off any roadways, always use a rig to block the scene, always have on the
proper reflective gear, turn off any unnecessary lights that prevent drivers from seeing, use flairs
and cones to warn drivers of the incident ahead.
\.Vehicle placement - Answer- first arriving until should block the scene, placing their unit at
an 45 degree angle to insure that if a vehicle were to hit the unit it would deflect the vehicle
away from the scene
\.All aid cars/ medics should - Answer- past the scene so that once a PT is loaded they are
protected and it also makes pulling back into traffic much more safe.
\.Once the Emergency Button is pressed on a portable radio - Answer- That radio will then go
into a mayday mode (EMER ZONE 3) (All the way to right on the dial then back one A bank
channel 15) and be treated as such until further communication
, \.The emergency button is made to - Answer- alert dispatch that there is an emergency even
if you cant talk on the radio.
\.Once the Emergency button is pressed the radio will automatically push you off of - Answer-
the channel it was on and it will kick you to an Emergency talk group depicted channel, at
the same time it will alert dispatch that something is wrong and dispatch will alert the IC
\.If the radio can not transmit out on - Answer- a talk group channel the user must change to
a simplex channel manually.
\.The Emergency button will not work if - Answer- the radio is already on a simplex channel, if
the radio is out of range of the 800 MHz system, of if the system is in site trunking or failsafe
\.how to turn off emergency mode on your radio - Answer- Contact Dispatch to reset radio or
turn radio on and off
\.conventional radio system - Answer- the users manually control the allocation of channels
by selecting from a knob, conventional radio frequency that is depicted to a single function like
operations, because this frequency is dedicated to only one us and no other function or unit can
be transmitted on it, even is on one is using it.
\.trunked radio system. - Answer- a computer at the center of the network is responsible for
channel selection. Making it much more practical. A _____ system uses repeaters to rout calls
which allows a ______ system is handel a much higher volume of calls
\.Fire 1 - Answer- dispatch -primary talk group
\.Fire 2: - Answer- Aid calls
