Emergency Response

1. Which of the following is a role of emergency medical response teams?

• A. To assess medical emergencies and transport patients to proper medical facilities

• B. To control, prevent or clean up hazardous material

• C. To fight fires and rescue occupants of burning structures

• D. To gather information about crimes

2. Where were first aid techniques first created and implemented?

• A. Highways

• B. Battlefields

• C. Hospitals

• D. Prisons

3. Who was Edward Dalton?

• A. The first person to bring ambulance services to civilians

• B. The Surgeon General of the US Army in 1862

• C. The individual who founded the first professional police force called the Bow Street Runners

• D. The man who passed the Metropolitan Police Act to professionalize police in England

4. Which of the following was NOT a suggestion made by the National Academy of Science’s report on accident deaths?

• A. Improving first aid training of the general public

• B. Regulating the dispatch services

• C. Wearing seatbelts and not driving distracted

• D. Standardizing the ambulance service equipment

5. Which of the following is NOT true about the Great Chicago Fire?

• A. It occurred in October

• B. It occurred in 1735

• C. It killed 300 people

• D. It left 100,000 people homeless