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| NFPA ___ is the Standard for Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications. |
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| NFPA _____ is the Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications. |
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| NFPA _____ is the Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program. (Specifically for the physical fitness of driver/operators.) |
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| NFPA 1582 regulates what health aspect for driver/operators? |
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| What is the NFPA standard for the Firefighter driver operator training program? |
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| NFPA 1451 is the Standard for a Fire Service Vehicle Operations Training Program. |
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| What is the min pump capacity for fire pumpers? |
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| Municipal fire pumpers rarely exceed ___ gpm. |
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| Industrial fire pumpers frequently exceed ____ gpm. |
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| What NFPA standard regulates the min amount of equipment on fire pumpers? |
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| Compressed Air Foam System. |
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| Smaller that Class A pumpers. Commonly having the same equipment but in less numbers. Only having the pump capacity for 500-1000 gpm. |
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| Larger than MiniPumpers and smaller than Municipal Pumpers. Same equipment as full size pumpers. Pumps commonly have 1000 gpm ability. |
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| What is a mobile water supply apparatus? |
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| Known as water tenders or tankers. They have more water that standard pumpers. |
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| What NFPA standard regulates water tender construction? |
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| What two methods are water tenders used for fire operations. |
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| Water tender is directly supplying attack pumpers. Water tenders do shuttle operations with dump tanks. |
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| What terms describe wildland fire apparatus? |
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| Brush trucks, brush breakers, booster apparatus, and engines. |
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| How much water is on wildland fire apparatus? |
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| Foam used to but out Class A materials (natural wood products). |
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| True or False: Do wildland apparatus use foam for wildland fire suppresion? |
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| What is Apparatus Typing? |
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| Separating apparatus by capability. |
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| Apparatus typing is controlled by? |
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| National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and Federal Emergency Managment Agency (FEMA). |
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| What does ARFF stand for? |
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| Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting. |
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| What types of fire are ARFF trucks designed for? |
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| Flammable liquids and vapors. |
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| What standard regulates ARFF vehicles? |
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| NFPA 414 Standard for Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Vehicles. |
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| What are the three classes of ARFF vehicles? |
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1. Major fire fightering vehicles.
2. Rapid intervention Vehicles (RIV).
3. Combined agent vehicles. |
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| An apparatus that is designed to put out boat fires, pump to land based operations, and Ice or water rescue. Can pump up to 26,000 GPM. |
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| What is an aerial apparatus? |
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| An apparatus with a ladder or platform to conduct firefighting operations or fire suppresion operations. Can have 250 GPM to 2,000 GPM capabilities. |
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| Small ladder truck. Water tanks are 300 Gal and usually pump 300 GPM. Used for small fire fighting operations. |
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| No, water is considered to be incompressable. |
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| What is the weight of 1 Gal of water? |
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| Close to it's freezing point. |
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| Close to it's boiling point. |
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| What 2 ways do water extinguish fires? |
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| By cooling and absoprbing the heat from the fire. By smothering when the substance on fire has a specific gravity greater than 1. |
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| A measure of the heat absorbing capacity of a substance. |
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| British Thermal Unit. The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree F (starting at 60 degrees). |
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| What is latent heat of vaporization? |
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| The quantity of heat absorbed by a substance when it changes from a liquid to a vapor. |
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| What is the boiling point? |
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| The temperature at which a liquid absorbs enough heat to change to vapor. |
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| How many BTU's does a pound of water need to convert to steam? |
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| What is the correlation of heat absorbed to water surface area? |
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| The more surface area of water the greater amount of heat that is absorbed. |
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| What is the approximate water expansion rate? |
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| Water expands to 1,700 times it's original volume. |
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| What happens if there is not proper ventilation and water is rapidly turned to steam? |
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| The steam, hot gases, or fire will harm firefighters. |
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| The tendancy of a liquid to possess internal resistance to flow. |
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| What is Specific Gravity? |
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| The density of liquids in relation to water is known as specific gravity. Water has a specific gravity of 1. Higher than 1 is heavier than water. Less than one is lighter than water. |
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| Force per unit area. Usually described as PSI. |
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| Simple measure of weight usually expressed in lbs or kg. |
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| The speed at which an object (water) travels. |
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| What is the First Principle of Fluid? |
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| Fluid pressure is perpendicular to any surface on which it acts. |
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| What is the Second Fluid Principle? |
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| When a fluid is at rest it is the same pressure in all directions. |
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| What is the Third Fluid Principle? |
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| Pressure appied to a confined fluid is transmitted equally in all directions. This is only true if on the same grid line with no change in elevation. |
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| What is the Fourth Fluid Principle? |
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| The pressure of a liquid in an open vessel is proportional to its depth. The deeper the vessel the greater the pressure at the bottom. |
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| What is the Fifth Fluid Principal? |
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| The pressure of a liquid in an open vessel is proportional to the density of the liquid. The more dense the fluid the more pressure is applied to the bottom of the container. |
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| What is the Sixth Fluid Principle? |
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| The pressure of a liquid on the bottom of a vessel is independant of the shape of the vessel. |
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| What is atmosheric pressure? |
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| The depth and density of the atmoshere exerts pressure on the earth. At sea level it is 14.7 psi. |
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