ESSENTIALS OF FIRE FIGHTING EVALUATION EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Use of plain language, including certain standard words and phrases, in radio
communications transmissions. - ✔✔Clear Text
✔✔Roll call of all units assigned to an incident. The supervisor of each unit reports the
status of the personnel within the unit at that time, usually by radio. A PAR may be
required by standard operating procedures at specific intervals during an incident, or
may be requested at any time by the Incident Commander or the Incident Safety Officer.
- ✔✔Personnel Accountability Report
✔✔System for determining position on the earth's surface by calculating the difference
in time for the signal from a number of satellites to reach a receiver on the ground. -
✔✔Global Positioning System
✔✔Equipment designed and approved for use in flammable atmospheres that is
incapable of releasing sufficient electrical energy to cause the ignition of a flammable
atmospheric mixture. - ✔✔Intrinsically Safe Equipment
✔✔Any location or facility at which 9-1-1 calls are answered either by direct calling,
rerouting, or diversion. - ✔✔Public Safety Answering Point
✔✔A load-bearing wall shared by two adjacent structures. - ✔✔Party Wall
✔✔Steel structural members that are covered with either spray-on fire proofing or fully
encased in an underwriters laboratories inc. Tested and approved system. -
✔✔Protected Steel
✔✔Weight of the structure, structural members, building components, and any other
features permanently attached to the building that are constant and immobile. -
✔✔Dead Load
✔✔Metal or wooden plates used to connect and strengthen the joints of two or more
separate components (such as metal or wooden truss components or roof or floor
components) into a load-bearing unit. - ✔✔Gusset Plates.
✔✔The edge of a pitched roof that overhangs an outside wall. Attic vents in typical
eaves provide an avenue for an exterior fire to enter the attic. - ✔✔Eave
✔✔Interior non-load-bearing wall that separates a space into rooms. - ✔✔Partition Wall
,✔✔A construction method using long continuous studs that run from the sill plate
(located on the foundation) to the roof eave line. All intermediate floor structures are
attached to the studs. Requires the use of long limber and generally lacks any type of
fire stopping within the wall cavity. - ✔✔Balloon Frame Construction
✔✔Wood with high moisture content. - ✔✔Green Wood
✔✔Structural supports constructed of 2- X 3-inch or 2- X4-inch members that are
connected by gusset plates. - ✔✔Lightweight Wood Truss
✔✔Structural failure of a building or any portion of it resulting from a fire, snow, wind,
water, or damage from other forces. - ✔✔Structural Collapse
✔✔Horizontal structural members used to support a ceiling or floor. Drywall materials
are nailed or screwed to the ceiling joists, and the subfloor is nailed or screwed to the
floor joists. - ✔✔Joists
✔✔Horizontal member between trusses that support the roof. - ✔✔Purlin
✔✔A truss constructed with the top and bottom chords parallel. These trusses are used
as floor joists in multistory buildings and as ceiling joists in buildings with flat roofs. -
✔✔Parallel Chord Truss
✔✔Inclined beam that supports a roof, runs parallel to the slope of the roof, and to
which the roof decking is attached. - ✔✔Rafter
✔✔Expansion of excess moisture within masonry materials due to exposure to the heat
of a fire, resulting in tensile forces within the material, and causing it to break apart. The
expansion causes sections of the material's surface to violently disintegrate, resulting in
explosive pitting or chipping of the material's surface. - ✔✔Spalling
✔✔Walls of a building that by design carry at least some part of the structural load of
the building in the direction of the ground or base. - ✔✔Load-Bearing Wall
✔✔(1) Items within a building that are movable but are not included as a permanent part
of the structure; merchandise, stock, furnishings, occupants, firefighters, and the water
used for fire suppression are examples of live loads. (2) Force placed upon a structure
by the addition of people, objects, or weather. - ✔✔Live Load
✔✔Concealed space between the top floor and the roof of a structure. - ✔✔Cockloft
, ✔✔Short for reinforcing bar. These steel bars are placed in concrete forms before the
cement is poured. When the concrete sets the rebar within it adds considerable
strength. - ✔✔Rebar
✔✔Type of building construction that uses renewable, environmentally friendly or
recycled materials. Also known as Natural or Green Construction. - ✔✔Hybrid
Construction
✔✔Portion of the exterior walls of a building that extends above the roof. A low wall at
the edge of a roof. - ✔✔Parapet
✔✔A second roof constructed over an existing roof. - ✔✔Rain Roof
✔✔The horizontal line at the junction of the top edges of two sloping roof surfaces. -
✔✔Ridge
✔✔A wooden structural panel formed by gluing and compressing wood strands together
under pressure. This material has replaced plywood and planking in the majority of
construction applications. Roof decks, walls, and subfloors are all commonly made of
OSB. - ✔✔Oriented Strand Board
✔✔Continuous and unobstructed way of exit travel from any point in a building or
structure to a public way, consisting of three separate and distinct parts: exit access,
exit, and exit discharge. - ✔✔Means of Egress
✔✔Fire-rated wall with a specified degree of fire resistance, built of fire-resistive
materials and usually extending from the foundation up to and through the roof of a
building, that is designed to limit the spread of a fire within a structure or between
adjacent structures. - ✔✔Fire Wall
✔✔An upright post in the framework of a wall for supporting sheets of lath and plaster,
wallboard, or similar material. - ✔✔Stud
✔✔Bricks, blocks, stones, and unreinforced and reinforced concrete products. -
✔✔Masonry
✔✔Structural support made from a long steel bar that is bent at a 90-degree angle with
flat or angular pieces welded to the top and bottom. - ✔✔Lightweight Steel Truss
✔✔Walls with a surface layer of attractive material laid over a base of common material.
- ✔✔Veneer Walls
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Use of plain language, including certain standard words and phrases, in radio
communications transmissions. - ✔✔Clear Text
✔✔Roll call of all units assigned to an incident. The supervisor of each unit reports the
status of the personnel within the unit at that time, usually by radio. A PAR may be
required by standard operating procedures at specific intervals during an incident, or
may be requested at any time by the Incident Commander or the Incident Safety Officer.
- ✔✔Personnel Accountability Report
✔✔System for determining position on the earth's surface by calculating the difference
in time for the signal from a number of satellites to reach a receiver on the ground. -
✔✔Global Positioning System
✔✔Equipment designed and approved for use in flammable atmospheres that is
incapable of releasing sufficient electrical energy to cause the ignition of a flammable
atmospheric mixture. - ✔✔Intrinsically Safe Equipment
✔✔Any location or facility at which 9-1-1 calls are answered either by direct calling,
rerouting, or diversion. - ✔✔Public Safety Answering Point
✔✔A load-bearing wall shared by two adjacent structures. - ✔✔Party Wall
✔✔Steel structural members that are covered with either spray-on fire proofing or fully
encased in an underwriters laboratories inc. Tested and approved system. -
✔✔Protected Steel
✔✔Weight of the structure, structural members, building components, and any other
features permanently attached to the building that are constant and immobile. -
✔✔Dead Load
✔✔Metal or wooden plates used to connect and strengthen the joints of two or more
separate components (such as metal or wooden truss components or roof or floor
components) into a load-bearing unit. - ✔✔Gusset Plates.
✔✔The edge of a pitched roof that overhangs an outside wall. Attic vents in typical
eaves provide an avenue for an exterior fire to enter the attic. - ✔✔Eave
✔✔Interior non-load-bearing wall that separates a space into rooms. - ✔✔Partition Wall
,✔✔A construction method using long continuous studs that run from the sill plate
(located on the foundation) to the roof eave line. All intermediate floor structures are
attached to the studs. Requires the use of long limber and generally lacks any type of
fire stopping within the wall cavity. - ✔✔Balloon Frame Construction
✔✔Wood with high moisture content. - ✔✔Green Wood
✔✔Structural supports constructed of 2- X 3-inch or 2- X4-inch members that are
connected by gusset plates. - ✔✔Lightweight Wood Truss
✔✔Structural failure of a building or any portion of it resulting from a fire, snow, wind,
water, or damage from other forces. - ✔✔Structural Collapse
✔✔Horizontal structural members used to support a ceiling or floor. Drywall materials
are nailed or screwed to the ceiling joists, and the subfloor is nailed or screwed to the
floor joists. - ✔✔Joists
✔✔Horizontal member between trusses that support the roof. - ✔✔Purlin
✔✔A truss constructed with the top and bottom chords parallel. These trusses are used
as floor joists in multistory buildings and as ceiling joists in buildings with flat roofs. -
✔✔Parallel Chord Truss
✔✔Inclined beam that supports a roof, runs parallel to the slope of the roof, and to
which the roof decking is attached. - ✔✔Rafter
✔✔Expansion of excess moisture within masonry materials due to exposure to the heat
of a fire, resulting in tensile forces within the material, and causing it to break apart. The
expansion causes sections of the material's surface to violently disintegrate, resulting in
explosive pitting or chipping of the material's surface. - ✔✔Spalling
✔✔Walls of a building that by design carry at least some part of the structural load of
the building in the direction of the ground or base. - ✔✔Load-Bearing Wall
✔✔(1) Items within a building that are movable but are not included as a permanent part
of the structure; merchandise, stock, furnishings, occupants, firefighters, and the water
used for fire suppression are examples of live loads. (2) Force placed upon a structure
by the addition of people, objects, or weather. - ✔✔Live Load
✔✔Concealed space between the top floor and the roof of a structure. - ✔✔Cockloft
, ✔✔Short for reinforcing bar. These steel bars are placed in concrete forms before the
cement is poured. When the concrete sets the rebar within it adds considerable
strength. - ✔✔Rebar
✔✔Type of building construction that uses renewable, environmentally friendly or
recycled materials. Also known as Natural or Green Construction. - ✔✔Hybrid
Construction
✔✔Portion of the exterior walls of a building that extends above the roof. A low wall at
the edge of a roof. - ✔✔Parapet
✔✔A second roof constructed over an existing roof. - ✔✔Rain Roof
✔✔The horizontal line at the junction of the top edges of two sloping roof surfaces. -
✔✔Ridge
✔✔A wooden structural panel formed by gluing and compressing wood strands together
under pressure. This material has replaced plywood and planking in the majority of
construction applications. Roof decks, walls, and subfloors are all commonly made of
OSB. - ✔✔Oriented Strand Board
✔✔Continuous and unobstructed way of exit travel from any point in a building or
structure to a public way, consisting of three separate and distinct parts: exit access,
exit, and exit discharge. - ✔✔Means of Egress
✔✔Fire-rated wall with a specified degree of fire resistance, built of fire-resistive
materials and usually extending from the foundation up to and through the roof of a
building, that is designed to limit the spread of a fire within a structure or between
adjacent structures. - ✔✔Fire Wall
✔✔An upright post in the framework of a wall for supporting sheets of lath and plaster,
wallboard, or similar material. - ✔✔Stud
✔✔Bricks, blocks, stones, and unreinforced and reinforced concrete products. -
✔✔Masonry
✔✔Structural support made from a long steel bar that is bent at a 90-degree angle with
flat or angular pieces welded to the top and bottom. - ✔✔Lightweight Steel Truss
✔✔Walls with a surface layer of attractive material laid over a base of common material.
- ✔✔Veneer Walls
