FF1 COMPREHENSIVE 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔General Safety rules for ladders - ✔✔-life with legs (keeping back straight)
-look overhead for wires/obstructions
-after extension, check pawls, check halyard
-check for proper 75 degree angle
✔✔Purpose of search operations - ✔✔locate living victims
✔✔Purpose of rescue operations - ✔✔to physically remove victims from dangerous
environment
✔✔First Priority (search and rescue) - ✔✔areas where live victims may be located
immediately around the fire and the rest of the fire floor
✔✔Second Priority (search and rescue) - ✔✔area directly above the fire
✔✔Third Priority (search and rescue) - ✔✔higher level floors, working from top floor
down
✔✔Primary Search - ✔✔quick attempt to locate victims who are in danger. Should be
15 minutes or less
✔✔Vent-Entry-Search Method - ✔✔Entering and exiting through a window
✔✔Secondary Search - ✔✔after fire is under control or fully suppressed. Slower search
for deceased victims and areas not covered in primary search
✔✔Signs of structural Collapse - ✔✔sagging walls, chipped/cracked mortar, warped
structural steel
, ✔✔Signs of backdraft - ✔✔dark black turbulent smoke, black windows, "breathing"
building, intense heat
✔✔2 Different Components to ventilation process - ✔✔Removal of smoke, toxic gases,
and hot air. Addition of cooler, cleaner, oxygen-rich air
✔✔Benefits of proper ventilation - ✔✔improved vision, removal or heat, removal of
stew, limited fire spread, reduced risk of backdraft
✔✔How to relieve potential flashover conditions - ✔✔short bursts of water applied to
ceiling by attack crews, and ventilation openings are placed close to the fire
✔✔Horizontal Ventilation - ✔✔takes advantage of doors and windows on the same level
as the fire
✔✔Vertical Ventilation - ✔✔Making open ins in roofs or floors so heat, smoke and toxic
gases can escape from structure in a vertical direction
✔✔Mechanical Ventilation - ✔✔Uses large high powered fans to augment natural
ventilation. Includes negative pressure ventilation, positive pressure ventilation, and
hydraulic ventilation
✔✔Negative Pressure Ventilation - ✔✔Uses smoke ejectors to exaughst smoke and
heat from the structure
✔✔Positive Pressure Ventilation - ✔✔Uses fans to introduce clean air into a structure
and push the contaminated atmosphere out
✔✔Hydraulic Ventilation - ✔✔Moves air using fog or broken pattern fire streams to
create a pressure differential behind and in front of the nozzle
✔✔Two main components of roof construction - ✔✔Roof support and roof covering
✔✔Three roof designs - ✔✔Flat Roof, Pitched Roof, Arched Roof
✔✔Flat Roof - ✔✔Often have vents, skylights, scutters and other features.
✔✔Pitched Roof - ✔✔Have a visible slope, roof construction material dictates how to
ventilate this roof
✔✔Arched Roof - ✔✔Supported by bowstring truss. Collapse is usually very sudden
✔✔Parapet walls - ✔✔Walls on a flat roof that extend above the roofline
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔General Safety rules for ladders - ✔✔-life with legs (keeping back straight)
-look overhead for wires/obstructions
-after extension, check pawls, check halyard
-check for proper 75 degree angle
✔✔Purpose of search operations - ✔✔locate living victims
✔✔Purpose of rescue operations - ✔✔to physically remove victims from dangerous
environment
✔✔First Priority (search and rescue) - ✔✔areas where live victims may be located
immediately around the fire and the rest of the fire floor
✔✔Second Priority (search and rescue) - ✔✔area directly above the fire
✔✔Third Priority (search and rescue) - ✔✔higher level floors, working from top floor
down
✔✔Primary Search - ✔✔quick attempt to locate victims who are in danger. Should be
15 minutes or less
✔✔Vent-Entry-Search Method - ✔✔Entering and exiting through a window
✔✔Secondary Search - ✔✔after fire is under control or fully suppressed. Slower search
for deceased victims and areas not covered in primary search
✔✔Signs of structural Collapse - ✔✔sagging walls, chipped/cracked mortar, warped
structural steel
, ✔✔Signs of backdraft - ✔✔dark black turbulent smoke, black windows, "breathing"
building, intense heat
✔✔2 Different Components to ventilation process - ✔✔Removal of smoke, toxic gases,
and hot air. Addition of cooler, cleaner, oxygen-rich air
✔✔Benefits of proper ventilation - ✔✔improved vision, removal or heat, removal of
stew, limited fire spread, reduced risk of backdraft
✔✔How to relieve potential flashover conditions - ✔✔short bursts of water applied to
ceiling by attack crews, and ventilation openings are placed close to the fire
✔✔Horizontal Ventilation - ✔✔takes advantage of doors and windows on the same level
as the fire
✔✔Vertical Ventilation - ✔✔Making open ins in roofs or floors so heat, smoke and toxic
gases can escape from structure in a vertical direction
✔✔Mechanical Ventilation - ✔✔Uses large high powered fans to augment natural
ventilation. Includes negative pressure ventilation, positive pressure ventilation, and
hydraulic ventilation
✔✔Negative Pressure Ventilation - ✔✔Uses smoke ejectors to exaughst smoke and
heat from the structure
✔✔Positive Pressure Ventilation - ✔✔Uses fans to introduce clean air into a structure
and push the contaminated atmosphere out
✔✔Hydraulic Ventilation - ✔✔Moves air using fog or broken pattern fire streams to
create a pressure differential behind and in front of the nozzle
✔✔Two main components of roof construction - ✔✔Roof support and roof covering
✔✔Three roof designs - ✔✔Flat Roof, Pitched Roof, Arched Roof
✔✔Flat Roof - ✔✔Often have vents, skylights, scutters and other features.
✔✔Pitched Roof - ✔✔Have a visible slope, roof construction material dictates how to
ventilate this roof
✔✔Arched Roof - ✔✔Supported by bowstring truss. Collapse is usually very sudden
✔✔Parapet walls - ✔✔Walls on a flat roof that extend above the roofline
