Occupational Safety Ch 6: Safety at the Fire Emergency

______________fires account for the majority of fires that cause injury and death to firefighters.

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• Structure

• Transportation

• Wildland

• Outside structure

Which of the following hazards are associated with residential 1- and 2-family structures?

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• Explosions

• Exposures threatened by fire

• Long operations that require time for rehabilitation

• Flashover

Which of the following structure types does not face a substantial risk of long operations that necessitate rehabilitation?

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• Residential 1- and 2-family structures

• Multistory residential

• Commercial

• Industrial

______________ is the group of activities aimed at stopping additional damage or danger from occurring at an incident.

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• Line safety

• Incident stabilization

• Property conservation

• None of these choices is correct

For which type of fires does the incident management system need to make long-term plans for logistical needs, such as food and adequate rehabilitation of fire fighters?

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• Vehicle

• Structural

• Outside structural

• Wildland

For decades, your department in rural Colorado has been equipped for fighting wildland fires in addition to structural and vehicle fires. In recent years, however, the fracking industry has exploded in the rural area that your department serves. As the safety and health program manager, you are concerned that fire fighters do not have adequate PPE for fires at fracking facilities, and you are drafting a proposal for acquiring additional equipment. Which NFPA standard will you use in your proposal to justify the expense of additional equipment?

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• NFPA 1500

• NFPA 1851

• NFPA 1852

• NFPA 1971

Which type of incident does not require the use of SCBA?

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• Hazardous liquid spills

• Structural fire

• Heavy rescue

• Smoke checks in structure

The primary responsibility for the care and maintenance of PPE falls to:

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• the safety and health program manager.

• the fire fighter to whom it is assigned.

• the incident commander.

• the shift commander.

A key requirement of an incident management system is to ______________ safety at the fire scene.

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• minimize

• reduce

• maximize

• increase

At an incident scene, which staff group is responsible for stopping unsafe operations?

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• Information

• Operations

• Safety

• Planning