ESSENTIALS OF FIRE FIGHTING COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
2025 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Plans Review - ✔✔Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to
determine the safety characteristics of a proposed building; generally done before
permission is granted to begin construction
✔✔Policy - ✔✔Organizational principle that is developed and adopted as a basis for
decision-making.
✔✔Postincident Analysis - ✔✔Overview and critique of an incident by members of all
responding agencies, including dispatchers. Typically takes place within two weeks of
the incident. In the training environment it may be used to evaluate student and
instructor performance during a training evolution.
✔✔Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - ✔✔Disorder caused when persons have
been exposed to a traumatic event in which they have experienced, witnessed, or been
confronted with an event or events that involve actual death, threatened death, serious
injury, or the threat of physical injury to self or others.
✔✔Power Take-Off (PTO) System - ✔✔Mechanism that allows a vehicle engine to
power equipment such as a pump, winch, or portable tool; it is typically attached to the
transmission.
✔✔Procedure - ✔✔Outline of the steps that must be performed in order to properly
follow an organizational policy. Procedures help an organization to ensure that it
consistently approaches a task in the correct way, in order to accomplish a specific
objective.
✔✔Rehabilitation - ✔✔Allowing firefighters or rescuers to rest, rehydrate, and recover
during an incident; also refers to a station at an incident where personnel can res,
rehydrate, and recover.
✔✔Response District - ✔✔Geographical area to which a particular apparatus is
assigned to be first due on a fire or other emergency incident.
✔✔risk - ✔✔Likelihood of suffering harm from a hazard; exposure to a hazard. The
potential for failure or loss.
✔✔Risk-Management Plan - ✔✔Written plan that identifies and analyzes the exposure
to hazards, selects appropriate risk management techniques to handle exposures,
implements those techniques, and monitors the results.
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Perception of the surrounding environment and the
ability to anticipate future events.
,✔✔Span of Control - ✔✔Maximum number of subordinates that one individual can
effectively supervise; ranges from three to seven individuals or functions, with five
generally established as optimum.
✔✔Standard - ✔✔A set of principles, protocols, or procedures that explain how to do
something or provide a set of minimum standards to be followed. Adhering to a
standard is not required by law, although standards may be incorporated in codes,
which are legally enforceable.
✔✔Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - ✔✔Formal Methods or rules to guide the
performance of routine functions or emergency operations. Procedures are typically
written in a handbook, so that all firefighters can consult and become familiar with them.
✔✔Traffic Control Zone - ✔✔Operational zone established on or near a roadway for the
rerouting of traffic and protection of civilians and responders; may include a hot, warm,
and cold zone depending on the incident.
✔✔Training Evolution - ✔✔Operation of fire and emergency services training covering
one or several aspects of fire fighting.
✔✔Unity of command - ✔✔Organizational principle in which workers report to only one
supervisor in order to eliminate conflicting orders.
✔✔Warm Zone - ✔✔Area between the hot and cold zones that usually contains the
decontamination corridor at hazardous material incidents.
✔✔Wildland/Urban Interface - ✔✔Line, area, or zone where an undeveloped wildland
area meets a human development area.
✔✔Control zones at HazMat incidents are labeled as: - ✔✔a. hot
b. warm
c. cold
d. all of the above
✔✔Fire Chief - ✔✔Responsible for all operations with the department
✔✔Fire Marshal - ✔✔Also call inspector or investigator. A member of the fire
department who inspects businesses and enforces laws that deal with public safety and
fire codes. A fire investigator may also respond to fire scenes to help incident
commanders investigate the cause of the fire. Investigators may have full police powers
of arrest and deal directly with investigations and arrests.
✔✔Company officer - ✔✔Supervisor a fire company in the Station at fires another
emergencies
, ✔✔District/Battalion Chief - ✔✔Supervisaré of group of fire companies, and stations.
✔✔Assistant/Deputy Chief - ✔✔Managed cattiest upper management such as, fire
prevention or training, administration, emerges in operations
✔✔Portable ligths - ✔✔Lights used to in building interior or remote areas, sometimes
mounted on on telescoping stands
✔✔generators - ✔✔The most common poet source used by EMS
✔✔Fixed lights. - ✔✔are mounted to a vehicle and their main function is to provide
overall lighting for the emergency scene
✔✔Intrinsically Safe - ✔✔Describes equipment that is approved for use in flammable
atmospheres; must be incapable of releasing enough electrical energy to ignite the
flammable atmosphere.
✔✔Hightway/ roadway hazards - ✔✔Debris
Fuel spill
Battery fluids
Downed power lines
✔✔Guidelines to maintain personal health - ✔✔Using PPE, fitness, use proper lifting
technique , following soap
✔✔What is the mission of the fire department - ✔✔Save lives
Protect property
Haz Materials
✔✔"16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives" - ✔✔Safety must be primary Consideration
All fighter must personal and organizational culture be for health and safety
All fF must empowered Safety and stop unsafe practices
Utilize an available technology wherever you can produce higher levels of health and
safety.
✔✔Task you may expect to perform at the scene - ✔✔Force entry
Set up and use ground ladders
Conduct search and rescue
✔✔What are the three incident priorities at the structural fire? - ✔✔Life safety
Property conservation
Stabilizing incident
2025 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Plans Review - ✔✔Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to
determine the safety characteristics of a proposed building; generally done before
permission is granted to begin construction
✔✔Policy - ✔✔Organizational principle that is developed and adopted as a basis for
decision-making.
✔✔Postincident Analysis - ✔✔Overview and critique of an incident by members of all
responding agencies, including dispatchers. Typically takes place within two weeks of
the incident. In the training environment it may be used to evaluate student and
instructor performance during a training evolution.
✔✔Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - ✔✔Disorder caused when persons have
been exposed to a traumatic event in which they have experienced, witnessed, or been
confronted with an event or events that involve actual death, threatened death, serious
injury, or the threat of physical injury to self or others.
✔✔Power Take-Off (PTO) System - ✔✔Mechanism that allows a vehicle engine to
power equipment such as a pump, winch, or portable tool; it is typically attached to the
transmission.
✔✔Procedure - ✔✔Outline of the steps that must be performed in order to properly
follow an organizational policy. Procedures help an organization to ensure that it
consistently approaches a task in the correct way, in order to accomplish a specific
objective.
✔✔Rehabilitation - ✔✔Allowing firefighters or rescuers to rest, rehydrate, and recover
during an incident; also refers to a station at an incident where personnel can res,
rehydrate, and recover.
✔✔Response District - ✔✔Geographical area to which a particular apparatus is
assigned to be first due on a fire or other emergency incident.
✔✔risk - ✔✔Likelihood of suffering harm from a hazard; exposure to a hazard. The
potential for failure or loss.
✔✔Risk-Management Plan - ✔✔Written plan that identifies and analyzes the exposure
to hazards, selects appropriate risk management techniques to handle exposures,
implements those techniques, and monitors the results.
✔✔Situational Awareness - ✔✔Perception of the surrounding environment and the
ability to anticipate future events.
,✔✔Span of Control - ✔✔Maximum number of subordinates that one individual can
effectively supervise; ranges from three to seven individuals or functions, with five
generally established as optimum.
✔✔Standard - ✔✔A set of principles, protocols, or procedures that explain how to do
something or provide a set of minimum standards to be followed. Adhering to a
standard is not required by law, although standards may be incorporated in codes,
which are legally enforceable.
✔✔Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - ✔✔Formal Methods or rules to guide the
performance of routine functions or emergency operations. Procedures are typically
written in a handbook, so that all firefighters can consult and become familiar with them.
✔✔Traffic Control Zone - ✔✔Operational zone established on or near a roadway for the
rerouting of traffic and protection of civilians and responders; may include a hot, warm,
and cold zone depending on the incident.
✔✔Training Evolution - ✔✔Operation of fire and emergency services training covering
one or several aspects of fire fighting.
✔✔Unity of command - ✔✔Organizational principle in which workers report to only one
supervisor in order to eliminate conflicting orders.
✔✔Warm Zone - ✔✔Area between the hot and cold zones that usually contains the
decontamination corridor at hazardous material incidents.
✔✔Wildland/Urban Interface - ✔✔Line, area, or zone where an undeveloped wildland
area meets a human development area.
✔✔Control zones at HazMat incidents are labeled as: - ✔✔a. hot
b. warm
c. cold
d. all of the above
✔✔Fire Chief - ✔✔Responsible for all operations with the department
✔✔Fire Marshal - ✔✔Also call inspector or investigator. A member of the fire
department who inspects businesses and enforces laws that deal with public safety and
fire codes. A fire investigator may also respond to fire scenes to help incident
commanders investigate the cause of the fire. Investigators may have full police powers
of arrest and deal directly with investigations and arrests.
✔✔Company officer - ✔✔Supervisor a fire company in the Station at fires another
emergencies
, ✔✔District/Battalion Chief - ✔✔Supervisaré of group of fire companies, and stations.
✔✔Assistant/Deputy Chief - ✔✔Managed cattiest upper management such as, fire
prevention or training, administration, emerges in operations
✔✔Portable ligths - ✔✔Lights used to in building interior or remote areas, sometimes
mounted on on telescoping stands
✔✔generators - ✔✔The most common poet source used by EMS
✔✔Fixed lights. - ✔✔are mounted to a vehicle and their main function is to provide
overall lighting for the emergency scene
✔✔Intrinsically Safe - ✔✔Describes equipment that is approved for use in flammable
atmospheres; must be incapable of releasing enough electrical energy to ignite the
flammable atmosphere.
✔✔Hightway/ roadway hazards - ✔✔Debris
Fuel spill
Battery fluids
Downed power lines
✔✔Guidelines to maintain personal health - ✔✔Using PPE, fitness, use proper lifting
technique , following soap
✔✔What is the mission of the fire department - ✔✔Save lives
Protect property
Haz Materials
✔✔"16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives" - ✔✔Safety must be primary Consideration
All fighter must personal and organizational culture be for health and safety
All fF must empowered Safety and stop unsafe practices
Utilize an available technology wherever you can produce higher levels of health and
safety.
✔✔Task you may expect to perform at the scene - ✔✔Force entry
Set up and use ground ladders
Conduct search and rescue
✔✔What are the three incident priorities at the structural fire? - ✔✔Life safety
Property conservation
Stabilizing incident
