AUC 207 SUBWAY AND RAILROAD TRACK OPERATIONS Flashcards
Auxiliary contact with the Desk Superintendent can also be established through which means (more than one correct)
A.Ta police officer
B.employee equipped with Transit authority radio
C.telephone located at Railroad Clerk’s booth
D.blue light
E.cellphone
A,B,C,D
The first arriving _________________ at the scene of a Transit Authority fire or
emergency shall determine if the response of a Transit Authority representative is
needed. The response request shall be made as follows:
Have the FDNY Dispatcher notify the Transit Authority Dispatcher and
request that a “Transit Supervisor” respond to the scene.
Insure that the FDNY Dispatcher advises the Transit Authority Dispatcher
of the exact location of the FDNY Command Post.
Chief Officer
INFO CARD
Whenever power is removed, lights in the right of way, the station lights, signals,
drainage pumping equipment, tunnel ventilation equipment, and train headlights
will not be affected. Interior subway car lights, found to be either on or off, shall be
no indication that power has been removed. The only verification that power has
been removed shall be via the FDNY Dispatcher,
.
When should an engine hook up to a hydrant for a fire located in an underground subway?
Not until the fire is located
Is this correct ?
Truck Chauffeur Bottom of subway entrance stairs. If the token clerk booth is within 50
feet of stairs to street, contact train dispatcher through the clerk. (There
is a telephone in the token clerk’s booth. Try to obtain additional
information for the Company Officer and Incident Commander). The
LCC should relay the token booth phone number to the Truck Officer in
case it is necessary to call the booth from a blue light telephone.
Outside Vent FF The foot of the stairs leading to the platform if it is within 50 feet of
the Chauffeur.
Roof FF Approximately 50 feet from the stairs on the platform for relay.
Engine Officer Approximately 100 feet (line of sight) from Roof FF on the platform.
Truck Officer To location of the fire.
Additional HT equipped members every 100 feet, if necessary.
No it’s YARDS NOT FEET
Which is correct?
Ladder 4 LCC: “Ladder 4 Chauffeur Relay to Command. Ladder 4 reports there is a
rubbish fire 100’ south of the southbound platform.”
Ladder 4 LCC: “Ladder 4 Chauffeur to Command. Ladder 4 reports there is a
rubbish fire 100’ south of the southbound platform.”
The top on with the word relay in it
Subway cars can receive power from the third rail via a contact rail shoe(s).
When members are required to operate under a subway car, request that Transit
personnel protect the contact rail shoes of___________ with wooden slippers
to further insure that no power can be transmitted.
A. All cars
B. affected cars
B. affected cars
Subway cars can receive power from the third rail via a contact rail shoe(s).
When members are required to operate under a subway car, request that Transit
personnel protect the contact rail shoes of the affected cars with wooden slippers
to further insure that no power can be transmitted.
Contact shoes are pieces of metal that conduct electricity from the third rail to car motors.
They stick out from the sides of the car near the wheels. There are contact shoes on both
sides of the cars. If any contact shoe is on the third rail, all contact shoes of car will be
energized.
There is a possibility that thousands of people will have to be evacuated. If at all possible
people should be evacuated to a station through the train. In those situations where the
train is unable to proceed to a station, consider transferring passengers to another train,
after consulting with transit officials. As a last resort, walk passengers out of the tunnel how?
A. Roadbed
B. bench wall
C. Both
C. Both
When a fuel spill is close to a grating or main entrance of a subway station, we must
try to stop the flow into these entrances by diking. Put this in preferable order. This should be followed by a layer of foam.
A. Charged several lengths of hose
B. sand or earth
C. Planking
B, C, A
True or False
When power is reported to have been removed from an 11,000 Volts AC
Overhead Catenary Line, members must be alert that there still remains a static
electrical current in such lines. This static current still has the potential to
dangerously shock anybody accidentally coming into contact with such a line.
Verification that such overhead lines are safe, after power has been reported
removed, is made by railroad electricians employing special equipment and
techniques at the site of operations. Such railroad electricians at the site of
operations can re-affirm thru the fire department dispatcher that the static currents have
also been removed.
False
Re affirm to the officer in command
A member directed to halt traffic shall use a light. The light is to be held chest high and
moved in a wide horizontal motion of at least how many feet
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
C. 4
True or false
To use a
token booth telephone, which is a conventional telephone, request the token
booth clerk to pass the telephone through the pass through window. The
Chief Officer can call the blue light telephone with his cellular telephone from
the street, but the token booth phone is the preferred method.
True
Some benchwalls are provided with cut outs (safety niches) which are indented spaces in
the wall of the tunnel. They provide room for a person to stand while a train passes by.
When using a cutout, Firefighters are required to
A. Remove their masks
B. use reduced profile maneuver
B. reduced profile
Dry chemical extinguishers at the power removal boxes, found along right of way,
approximately ______________ apart.
Gate valves with Fire Department threads are located at approximately ________________
intervals.
600 feet
200 feet
If smoke is
showing at the grating, and there is a light smoke condition in the station, this is usually
an indication that the fire is __________________ in the tunnel vent directly under the grating.
Is in the setback
