APCO FIRE SERVICE
COMMUNICATIONS 2025/2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
FIRE TETRAHEDRON - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔4 factors necessary for fire: HEAT
+ FUEL + OXYGEN and a CHEMICAL CHAIN REACTION
ADMINISTRATION DIVISION - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Chief, Support Staff,
Payroll
COMMUNICATION DIVISION - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Call takers/ Dispatcher
FIRE PREVENTION + INVESTIGATION - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Building
inspectors, Arson Investigators, Public Education
OPERATIONS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Captain, Driver, Firefighter
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔High Angle, HAZMAT,
Confined Space Rescue
EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mechanics, Electricians
1
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, TRAINING + SAFETY - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Training Officer
EMTs, Paramedics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency Medical Service
CLASS A FIRE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ordinary Combustibles (eg. wood, paper)
Suppress via H20
Fires are fought - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔from the "unburned to the burned"
Fires are fought from "inside" structures as opposed to outside of them - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Ventilation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Technique used to remove heated smoke/gas
from a burning building. Can remove explosive smoke and has
concentrations which allows for advancement of hose lines into effective
positions for fire extinguishments.
PPV (Positive Pressure Ventilation) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔process of using fans
to force air into a structure and force heat/gasses out
Under Control - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔generally indicates the fire is no longer
spreading, however there may still be fire present.
2
COPYRIGHT@SARAHROSAPERAL 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
COMMUNICATIONS 2025/2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
FIRE TETRAHEDRON - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔4 factors necessary for fire: HEAT
+ FUEL + OXYGEN and a CHEMICAL CHAIN REACTION
ADMINISTRATION DIVISION - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Chief, Support Staff,
Payroll
COMMUNICATION DIVISION - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Call takers/ Dispatcher
FIRE PREVENTION + INVESTIGATION - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Building
inspectors, Arson Investigators, Public Education
OPERATIONS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Captain, Driver, Firefighter
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔High Angle, HAZMAT,
Confined Space Rescue
EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mechanics, Electricians
1
COPYRIGHT@SARAHROSAPERAL 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, TRAINING + SAFETY - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Training Officer
EMTs, Paramedics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency Medical Service
CLASS A FIRE - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ordinary Combustibles (eg. wood, paper)
Suppress via H20
Fires are fought - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔from the "unburned to the burned"
Fires are fought from "inside" structures as opposed to outside of them - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Ventilation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Technique used to remove heated smoke/gas
from a burning building. Can remove explosive smoke and has
concentrations which allows for advancement of hose lines into effective
positions for fire extinguishments.
PPV (Positive Pressure Ventilation) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔process of using fans
to force air into a structure and force heat/gasses out
Under Control - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔generally indicates the fire is no longer
spreading, however there may still be fire present.
2
COPYRIGHT@SARAHROSAPERAL 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
