ESSENTIALS OF FIRE FIGHTING UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Plans Review - ✔✔Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to
determine the safety characteristics of the proposed building generally done before
permission is granted to begin construction
✔✔Community Risk Reduction (CRR) - ✔✔A comprehensive all-hazard, unifying
approach that includes programs, actions, and services used by a community, which
prevent or mitigate the loss of life, property, and resources associated with life safety,
fire, and other disasters within a community.
✔✔policy - ✔✔a guide to decision-making within an organization
✔✔Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - ✔✔specific sets of written instructions
about how to perform a certain aspect of a task
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Knowledge and understanding of your surroundings and
situation and the risk they potentially pose to your safety or the safety of the EMS team.
✔✔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.
✔✔Risk Management Plan - ✔✔A plan that documents the procedures for managing
risk throughout a project
✔✔chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - ✔✔permanent, destructive
pulmonary disorder that is a combination of chronic bronchitis and emphysema
✔✔Carcinogen - ✔✔A cancer-causing substance
✔✔Body Substance Isolation (BSI) - ✔✔An infection control concept and practice that
assumes that all body fluids are potentially infectious.
✔✔Hot zone - ✔✔area immediately surrounding a hazmat incident; extends far enough
to prevent adverse effects outside the zone
✔✔warm zone - ✔✔area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot
zone support take place; it includes control points for the access corridor and thus
assists in reducing the spread of contamination.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Plans Review - ✔✔Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to
determine the safety characteristics of the proposed building generally done before
permission is granted to begin construction
✔✔Community Risk Reduction (CRR) - ✔✔A comprehensive all-hazard, unifying
approach that includes programs, actions, and services used by a community, which
prevent or mitigate the loss of life, property, and resources associated with life safety,
fire, and other disasters within a community.
✔✔policy - ✔✔a guide to decision-making within an organization
✔✔Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - ✔✔specific sets of written instructions
about how to perform a certain aspect of a task
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Knowledge and understanding of your surroundings and
situation and the risk they potentially pose to your safety or the safety of the EMS team.
✔✔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.
✔✔Risk Management Plan - ✔✔A plan that documents the procedures for managing
risk throughout a project
✔✔chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - ✔✔permanent, destructive
pulmonary disorder that is a combination of chronic bronchitis and emphysema
✔✔Carcinogen - ✔✔A cancer-causing substance
✔✔Body Substance Isolation (BSI) - ✔✔An infection control concept and practice that
assumes that all body fluids are potentially infectious.
✔✔Hot zone - ✔✔area immediately surrounding a hazmat incident; extends far enough
to prevent adverse effects outside the zone
✔✔warm zone - ✔✔area where personnel and equipment decontamination and hot
zone support take place; it includes control points for the access corridor and thus
assists in reducing the spread of contamination.
