FIREFIGHTER 1C QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2027
Question 1.
What is defensible space?
Correct Answer: Removal of flammable material from the area around a
structure
Question 2.
A fire shelter protects you from what type of heat?
Correct Answer: Radiant heat
Question 3.
What are the three reasons the ten standard fire orders are not obeyed?
Correct Answer: Ignorance, Machismo, Apathy
Question 4.
What is the difference between the ten standard fire orders vs watch outs?
Correct Answer: Ten standard fire orders were developed to prevent firefighter
fatalities. The watch outs represent situations with specific hazards.
Question 5.
What is the most common injury on wildland fires?
Correct Answer: Hyperthermia
Question 6.
What is situational awareness and why is it important?
Correct Answer: The gathering of information by observation around you. It
allows you to avoid being placed in a hazardous situation.
Question 7.
What does accountability mean?
Correct Answer: Subject to report, explain or justify, being answerable or
responsible
Question 8.
What does predicted fire weather mean to you on the fireline?
Correct Answer: Having the ability to recognize weather indicators and
understand what they mean to preplan before fire behavior changes
, Question 9.
What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen?
Correct Answer: 21%
Question 10.
What is solar radiation?
Correct Answer: Solar radiation refers to the amount of heat taken by the earth
from the sun
Question 11.
Of all the weather factors on a fire, which is the most important?
Correct Answer: Wind
Question 12.
What generally drives horizontal movement of air?
Correct Answer: Wind
Question 13.
What is lapse rate?
Correct Answer: A change in temperature caused by a change in altitude
Question 14.
What is the normal lapse rate per every 1,000ft of elevation change?
Correct Answer: +3
Question 15.
What is inversion layer?
Correct Answer: A layer of very stable air where the temperature rises as the
altitude increases
Question 16.
On a calm day, why will a column of smoke stop rising and flatten out?
Correct Answer: Smoke has reached a point where temperatures equalize. Cool
air will not rise through the warm air.
Question 17.
What is orographic lifting?
Correct Answer: An air mass that is moving horizontally that encounters a
mountain range and is forced upward
Question 1.
What is defensible space?
Correct Answer: Removal of flammable material from the area around a
structure
Question 2.
A fire shelter protects you from what type of heat?
Correct Answer: Radiant heat
Question 3.
What are the three reasons the ten standard fire orders are not obeyed?
Correct Answer: Ignorance, Machismo, Apathy
Question 4.
What is the difference between the ten standard fire orders vs watch outs?
Correct Answer: Ten standard fire orders were developed to prevent firefighter
fatalities. The watch outs represent situations with specific hazards.
Question 5.
What is the most common injury on wildland fires?
Correct Answer: Hyperthermia
Question 6.
What is situational awareness and why is it important?
Correct Answer: The gathering of information by observation around you. It
allows you to avoid being placed in a hazardous situation.
Question 7.
What does accountability mean?
Correct Answer: Subject to report, explain or justify, being answerable or
responsible
Question 8.
What does predicted fire weather mean to you on the fireline?
Correct Answer: Having the ability to recognize weather indicators and
understand what they mean to preplan before fire behavior changes
, Question 9.
What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen?
Correct Answer: 21%
Question 10.
What is solar radiation?
Correct Answer: Solar radiation refers to the amount of heat taken by the earth
from the sun
Question 11.
Of all the weather factors on a fire, which is the most important?
Correct Answer: Wind
Question 12.
What generally drives horizontal movement of air?
Correct Answer: Wind
Question 13.
What is lapse rate?
Correct Answer: A change in temperature caused by a change in altitude
Question 14.
What is the normal lapse rate per every 1,000ft of elevation change?
Correct Answer: +3
Question 15.
What is inversion layer?
Correct Answer: A layer of very stable air where the temperature rises as the
altitude increases
Question 16.
On a calm day, why will a column of smoke stop rising and flatten out?
Correct Answer: Smoke has reached a point where temperatures equalize. Cool
air will not rise through the warm air.
Question 17.
What is orographic lifting?
Correct Answer: An air mass that is moving horizontally that encounters a
mountain range and is forced upward
