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| New firefighter's enter into one of three categories. What are they? |
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1) career
2) paid on call
3) volunteer |
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| What are the three duties of every fire department? |
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1) life safety
2) incident stabilization
3) property conservation |
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| What shows the structure of the fire department and its chain of command? |
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| What is the principle that a person can report to only one supervisor? |
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| What is division of labor? |
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| -dividing large jobs into small jobs |
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| What are the three main reasons why division of labor is important in the fire service? |
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1) to assign responsibility
2) to prevent duplication of effort
3) to make specific and clear-cut assignments |
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| What refers to an organization's responsibility to provide the direction needed to satisfy the goals and objectives it has identified? |
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| What is the standard operating unit of a fire department? |
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| -a group of firefighter's assigned to a particular piece of fire apparatus or to a particular station |
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| What does an Engine Company do? |
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| -deploys handlines for fire attack and exposure protection |
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| What truck performs forcible entry, search and rescue, ventilation, salvage and overhaul, and provides access to upper levels of a structure? |
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