AIRPORT FIREFIGHTER REVIEW TIPS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔With fighter and bomber aircraft, personnel, and apparatus should be positioned at
an approximate 45 degree angle - ✔✔A. behind wing ordinance
B. At approximately 45 feet out from the nose or tail, but not in front or beneath wing
ordinance
C. off the nose or tail, but not in front , behind, or beneath wing ordinance - Correct
Answer
D. in line with the gun ports
✔✔Which term is not used to describe explosives and any other article defined as any
of the following substances: a combustible liquid, corrosive material, any infectious
substances, flammable compressed gases, oxidizing materials, poisonous articles,
radioactive materials, or lastly other restrictive articles? - ✔✔A. Restricted articles
B. Dangerous goods
C. Composite materials - Correct Answer
D. Hazardous materials
✔✔What type of agent is best used on a fire involving flammable liquids? - ✔✔A.
Bromochlorodifluoromethane
B. Sodium Bicarbonate - Correct Answer
C. Water
D. G-1 powder
,✔✔A flowing fire should be extinguished by using a dry chemical or halon agent. An
application of which type of agent should followe after the fire is extinguished? - ✔✔A.
Dry powder
B. Atrophine.
C. Water
D. Foam - Correct Answer
✔✔Foam extinguishes a fire by separating, cooling, and - ✔✔A. Implosion
B. Suppressing - Correct Answer
C. Smoldering
D. Impinging
✔✔Dry chemicals are hazardous to fire fighters, in which of the following ways? - ✔✔A.
Corrosive to electronic equipment and aircraft engines, obscures vision, and mild
respiratory irritant - Correct Answer
B. Heat, smoke, oxygen depletion, and a high toxicity
C. Corrosive to personal protection equipment, obscures vision, and complicates rescue
operations
D. Corrosive to all metals and have no flashback-preventative capabilities
✔✔If possible, steams should be employed so that - ✔✔A. Even surface cooling can
result - Correct Answer
B. The fuel is driven towards the fuselage
C. All available agent is used
D. Spot cooling of aircraft components is accomplished
✔✔The unique extinguishing action of Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) is its -
✔✔A. self-sealing capability when disturbed - Correct Answer
B. Cooling and foam blanketing abilities
C. Foam blanketing and penetrating abilities
, D. Thermal and vapor sealing abilities
✔✔Foam extinguishes a fire by forming a blanket on the burning fuel which - ✔✔A.
Causes chemicals to react in liquid form
B. Raises the temperature of the fuel and adjacent surfaces
C. Encourages the release of flammable vapors
D. excludes oxygen - Correct Answer
✔✔According to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 402; Guide for Aircraft
Rescue and Fire-Fighting Operations, in the event that an interior aircraft fire cannot be
immediately extinguished, what steps should be taken? - ✔✔A. Cut a 4x4 square in
fuselage to ventilate cabins
B. Fire fighting forces should pull back and switch to a defensive operation
C. Water spray should be applied to win and fuselage fuel tank areas exposed to heat -
Correct Answer
D. immediate evacuation of all fire fighting forces.
✔✔Which selection is not a safety procedure used when performing overhaul at an
aircraft incident? - ✔✔A. Wearing full protective clothing
B. Using the palm of the hand to detect "hot spots"
C. Disconnecting batteries and taping terminals - Correct Answer
D. Cooling down "hot spots"
✔✔Which is the main objective of turret operations? - ✔✔A. Cool down the fuselage
B. Maintain a fire-free escape route - Correct Answer
C. Totally extinguish all fires
D. Exhaust the Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) agent
✔✔The turrets should be used only as long as - ✔✔A. There is fire visible
B. There are rescue personnel in the area
C. Agent is available
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔With fighter and bomber aircraft, personnel, and apparatus should be positioned at
an approximate 45 degree angle - ✔✔A. behind wing ordinance
B. At approximately 45 feet out from the nose or tail, but not in front or beneath wing
ordinance
C. off the nose or tail, but not in front , behind, or beneath wing ordinance - Correct
Answer
D. in line with the gun ports
✔✔Which term is not used to describe explosives and any other article defined as any
of the following substances: a combustible liquid, corrosive material, any infectious
substances, flammable compressed gases, oxidizing materials, poisonous articles,
radioactive materials, or lastly other restrictive articles? - ✔✔A. Restricted articles
B. Dangerous goods
C. Composite materials - Correct Answer
D. Hazardous materials
✔✔What type of agent is best used on a fire involving flammable liquids? - ✔✔A.
Bromochlorodifluoromethane
B. Sodium Bicarbonate - Correct Answer
C. Water
D. G-1 powder
,✔✔A flowing fire should be extinguished by using a dry chemical or halon agent. An
application of which type of agent should followe after the fire is extinguished? - ✔✔A.
Dry powder
B. Atrophine.
C. Water
D. Foam - Correct Answer
✔✔Foam extinguishes a fire by separating, cooling, and - ✔✔A. Implosion
B. Suppressing - Correct Answer
C. Smoldering
D. Impinging
✔✔Dry chemicals are hazardous to fire fighters, in which of the following ways? - ✔✔A.
Corrosive to electronic equipment and aircraft engines, obscures vision, and mild
respiratory irritant - Correct Answer
B. Heat, smoke, oxygen depletion, and a high toxicity
C. Corrosive to personal protection equipment, obscures vision, and complicates rescue
operations
D. Corrosive to all metals and have no flashback-preventative capabilities
✔✔If possible, steams should be employed so that - ✔✔A. Even surface cooling can
result - Correct Answer
B. The fuel is driven towards the fuselage
C. All available agent is used
D. Spot cooling of aircraft components is accomplished
✔✔The unique extinguishing action of Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) is its -
✔✔A. self-sealing capability when disturbed - Correct Answer
B. Cooling and foam blanketing abilities
C. Foam blanketing and penetrating abilities
, D. Thermal and vapor sealing abilities
✔✔Foam extinguishes a fire by forming a blanket on the burning fuel which - ✔✔A.
Causes chemicals to react in liquid form
B. Raises the temperature of the fuel and adjacent surfaces
C. Encourages the release of flammable vapors
D. excludes oxygen - Correct Answer
✔✔According to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 402; Guide for Aircraft
Rescue and Fire-Fighting Operations, in the event that an interior aircraft fire cannot be
immediately extinguished, what steps should be taken? - ✔✔A. Cut a 4x4 square in
fuselage to ventilate cabins
B. Fire fighting forces should pull back and switch to a defensive operation
C. Water spray should be applied to win and fuselage fuel tank areas exposed to heat -
Correct Answer
D. immediate evacuation of all fire fighting forces.
✔✔Which selection is not a safety procedure used when performing overhaul at an
aircraft incident? - ✔✔A. Wearing full protective clothing
B. Using the palm of the hand to detect "hot spots"
C. Disconnecting batteries and taping terminals - Correct Answer
D. Cooling down "hot spots"
✔✔Which is the main objective of turret operations? - ✔✔A. Cool down the fuselage
B. Maintain a fire-free escape route - Correct Answer
C. Totally extinguish all fires
D. Exhaust the Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) agent
✔✔The turrets should be used only as long as - ✔✔A. There is fire visible
B. There are rescue personnel in the area
C. Agent is available
