CH 4 Flashcards
(19 cards)
The IC’s ________ on the fireground stems from facts and observations but intuition, emotion, and experience influence it, too.
perception of critical elements
pg 155
Throughout the size-up process, an IC makes informed decisions by facts with _________ and __________.
situational awareness and experience
pg 156
_________ challenges the idea that, to make a good decision people must move from data to information to knowledge to understanding.
Naturalistic Decision-Making (NDM)
pg 158
The _________ method uses experience in decision-making that deals with challenging conditions, such as: time pressure, vague goals, high-risk constraints, crew coordination.
Naturalistic Decision-Making (NDM)
pg 158
According to ___________, successful decision-making occurs when individuals such as ICs, bring relevant education, training, experience, intuition, and learned outcomes to the decision-making process.
Recognition Primed Decision-Making (RPDM)
pg 158
Like size-up, __________ on the fireground is a dynamic process and continues until the accident terminates.
decision-making
pg 159
A decision or strategy becomes a __________ when an assignment gets communicated and actions or tasks are employed.
Tactic
pg 160
Without a prefire plan, the ___________ may provide the IC with a street view of the address before arrival on scene.
Mobile Data Terminal/Computer (MDT/C)
pg 162
Thick, black smoke suggests a fire is in the late stages of ___________ (chemical change by heat) and producing large amounts of unburned carbon.
pyrolisis
pg 165
___________ smoke with good ventilation looks thin, black, fast, and laminar.
flame-driven
pg 165
Thick, black smoke turns _________ when it loses the solid particulates.
white
pg 166
A small volume of white smoke pushed through the openings of a large building indicates a
large fire
pg 167
When smoke appears out of multiple openings, the more dense and turbulent smoke should be closest to the
seat of the fire
pg 168
__________ conditions can result in smoke pulsing out of openings within a structure.
Ventilation-Limited
pg 169
________ offers a sign of backdraft and should be considered a red-flag situation.
pulsing
pg 169
Whistling noise created by the movement of air in or out of the building can indicate an
underventilated fire
pg 169
Air currents and pressure differences produce common patterns of smoke movement. Three common types of movement include:
floating/ hanging, volume-pushed, and heat-pushed
pg 169
__________ works as a program or approach to use resources effectively.
crew resource management
pg 170
It creates a culture or climate of freedom in which personnel are encouraged to contribute to the safety and goals of an operation to mitigate the incident.
CRM
pg 170
