TCFP INSTRUCTOR 1 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What type of heat injury is a life-threatening condition requiring immediate medical
care? - ✔✔Heat Stroke
✔✔If a team member must exit a hazard area for any reason, what should the rest of
the team do? - ✔✔Exit as the entire team together.
✔✔Who has the authority to directly and immediately stop any activity on the fire ground
that he/she judges to be unsafe? - ✔✔Safety Officer
✔✔Who should accompany a firefighter sent to the rehabilitation area? - ✔✔The entire
crew.
✔✔What does the "buddy system" refer to? - ✔✔A team of two partners who maintain
constant contact.
✔✔NFPA standards require an SCBA low-air alarm to sound when the cylinder
pressure drops to ___ percent of capacity? - ✔✔25%
✔✔Which fire gas is a product of incomplete combustion of common household items? -
✔✔Phosgene
✔✔The primary hazard of ____ is that it can displace oxygen from the atmosphere. -
✔✔Carbon Dioxide
✔✔Which fire gas is a product of burning plastic? - ✔✔Hydrogen Cyanide
✔✔Pressure readings on an SCBA cylinder gauge and the regulator or remote pressure
gauge should not differ by more than ______ psi? - ✔✔100 PSI (kPa)
✔✔NFPA standard for structural firefighting PPE - ✔✔NFPA 1971
✔✔Which fire gas kills by replacing oxygen in the blood? - ✔✔Carbon Monoxide
✔✔What is the primary function of the moisture barrier in the structural firefighting PPE?
- ✔✔Keep liquids and vapors from reaching the skin.
✔✔Smoke has how many major components ? - ✔✔3
✔✔NFPA Standard for Wildland Firefighting PPE. - ✔✔NFPA 1977
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What type of heat injury is a life-threatening condition requiring immediate medical
care? - ✔✔Heat Stroke
✔✔If a team member must exit a hazard area for any reason, what should the rest of
the team do? - ✔✔Exit as the entire team together.
✔✔Who has the authority to directly and immediately stop any activity on the fire ground
that he/she judges to be unsafe? - ✔✔Safety Officer
✔✔Who should accompany a firefighter sent to the rehabilitation area? - ✔✔The entire
crew.
✔✔What does the "buddy system" refer to? - ✔✔A team of two partners who maintain
constant contact.
✔✔NFPA standards require an SCBA low-air alarm to sound when the cylinder
pressure drops to ___ percent of capacity? - ✔✔25%
✔✔Which fire gas is a product of incomplete combustion of common household items? -
✔✔Phosgene
✔✔The primary hazard of ____ is that it can displace oxygen from the atmosphere. -
✔✔Carbon Dioxide
✔✔Which fire gas is a product of burning plastic? - ✔✔Hydrogen Cyanide
✔✔Pressure readings on an SCBA cylinder gauge and the regulator or remote pressure
gauge should not differ by more than ______ psi? - ✔✔100 PSI (kPa)
✔✔NFPA standard for structural firefighting PPE - ✔✔NFPA 1971
✔✔Which fire gas kills by replacing oxygen in the blood? - ✔✔Carbon Monoxide
✔✔What is the primary function of the moisture barrier in the structural firefighting PPE?
- ✔✔Keep liquids and vapors from reaching the skin.
✔✔Smoke has how many major components ? - ✔✔3
✔✔NFPA Standard for Wildland Firefighting PPE. - ✔✔NFPA 1977
