NATIONAL TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
REVIEW EXAMS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Safety Service Patrol - ✔✔Designated highways looking for crashes, disabled
vehicles, abandoned vehicles, debris, and provide services in an effort to keep motorists
safe and traffic lanes open
Assist Responders by
-setting up temporary traffic control
-Relocating vehicles
-securing the scene
-providing incident details to the local TMC
✔✔Initial or Windshield size-up report should be provided - ✔✔-Unit identification
-Exact location of incident
-Number and type of vehicles involved
-Degree of damage
-Number of lanes closed
-Hazard/unique safety concerns
-Establish of Command
✔✔A detailed size-up should be provided within - ✔✔15 minutes
, ✔✔Incident Duration Classifications - ✔✔Minor < 30 min
Intermediate 30min - 2hrs
Major > 2 hours
✔✔On-Scene Safety Concerns - ✔✔-Dangerous Location
-Limited Visibility
-Presence of hazardous materials
✔✔Traffic Conditions - ✔✔-Length of traffic queue
-Traffic control needs
-Detour/ alternate route needs
✔✔Injured Persons - ✔✔-Number and extend of injuries
-Need for extrication
✔✔Additional Resources - ✔✔-Towing and Recovery
-Helicopter EMS services
-Crash investigation/ reconstruction
-Medical Examiner/Coroner
✔✔Move it - ✔✔Refers to moving vehicles involved in an incident to a safer location
before being worked
✔✔Work it - ✔✔Situation where the vehicles involved cannot be moved before being
worked.
✔✔Safe-Positioned - ✔✔Positioning of emergency vehicle at an incident in a manner
that attempts to
1) Protect the responders performing their duties
2) Protect road users to traveling through the incident scene
3) Minimize, to the extent practical, disruption of the adjacent traffic flow
✔✔Blocking - ✔✔Is the act of positioning a responder vehicle upstream of an incident to
obstruct the flow of moving traffic in one or more lanes, and/or the shoulder
ex) parallel, angled
✔✔What kind of vehicles provide the best blocks? - ✔✔Large, heavy vehicles provide
the best blocks
✔✔Lane +1 blocking - ✔✔Occurs when responders block the involved lane(s) (including
shoulder) plus one additional lane to provide a protected lateral space for safety
✔✔Progressively open lanes - ✔✔Take as many lanes as you need for as long as you
need them and then give them back as soon as safely possible
REVIEW EXAMS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Safety Service Patrol - ✔✔Designated highways looking for crashes, disabled
vehicles, abandoned vehicles, debris, and provide services in an effort to keep motorists
safe and traffic lanes open
Assist Responders by
-setting up temporary traffic control
-Relocating vehicles
-securing the scene
-providing incident details to the local TMC
✔✔Initial or Windshield size-up report should be provided - ✔✔-Unit identification
-Exact location of incident
-Number and type of vehicles involved
-Degree of damage
-Number of lanes closed
-Hazard/unique safety concerns
-Establish of Command
✔✔A detailed size-up should be provided within - ✔✔15 minutes
, ✔✔Incident Duration Classifications - ✔✔Minor < 30 min
Intermediate 30min - 2hrs
Major > 2 hours
✔✔On-Scene Safety Concerns - ✔✔-Dangerous Location
-Limited Visibility
-Presence of hazardous materials
✔✔Traffic Conditions - ✔✔-Length of traffic queue
-Traffic control needs
-Detour/ alternate route needs
✔✔Injured Persons - ✔✔-Number and extend of injuries
-Need for extrication
✔✔Additional Resources - ✔✔-Towing and Recovery
-Helicopter EMS services
-Crash investigation/ reconstruction
-Medical Examiner/Coroner
✔✔Move it - ✔✔Refers to moving vehicles involved in an incident to a safer location
before being worked
✔✔Work it - ✔✔Situation where the vehicles involved cannot be moved before being
worked.
✔✔Safe-Positioned - ✔✔Positioning of emergency vehicle at an incident in a manner
that attempts to
1) Protect the responders performing their duties
2) Protect road users to traveling through the incident scene
3) Minimize, to the extent practical, disruption of the adjacent traffic flow
✔✔Blocking - ✔✔Is the act of positioning a responder vehicle upstream of an incident to
obstruct the flow of moving traffic in one or more lanes, and/or the shoulder
ex) parallel, angled
✔✔What kind of vehicles provide the best blocks? - ✔✔Large, heavy vehicles provide
the best blocks
✔✔Lane +1 blocking - ✔✔Occurs when responders block the involved lane(s) (including
shoulder) plus one additional lane to provide a protected lateral space for safety
✔✔Progressively open lanes - ✔✔Take as many lanes as you need for as long as you
need them and then give them back as soon as safely possible
