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What is the primary difference between Fire Officer I and Fire Officer II?

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Fire Officer II has a wider scope, identifying issues and developing plans, while Fire Officer I implements them.

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What are the administrative duties of a Fire Officer II?

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Evaluating subordinate performance, correcting issues, completing appraisals, developing budgets, purchasing, and preparing reports.

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What are the nonemergency duties of a Fire Officer II?

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Conducting inspections, reviewing accident/injury reports, developing preincident plans, and analyzing data for corrective actions.

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What are the emergency duties of a Fire Officer II?

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Supervising multiunit operations via ICS, developing operational plans, determining fire origin/cause, and conducting postincident analysis.

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What does the IAFC call a Fire Officer II?

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A managing fire officer, per the Officer Development Handbook.

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How does a captain’s role differ from a lieutenant’s?

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A captain manages multiple companies, develops strategies, and supervises lieutenants, while lieutenants directly supervise task-level teams.

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What is the captain’s role in ICS?

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May serve as incident commander, division/group/unit leader, or branch director, managing multiple units and relaying information.

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What is a captain’s role in professional development?

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Creating and administering development plans combining skills, experience, education, and assignments for fire fighters and lieutenants.

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What is a fire department’s authority derived from?

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State police powers, which delegate responsibility for fire protection, often defined by local law.

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What are types of fire department organizations?

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City, county, town, fire district, regional, state/federal, volunteer, industrial, or fire brigade.

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What is administrative law in the fire service?

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Statutes and rules created by agencies to implement policies enacted by elected officials.

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What is the California Fire Protection District Law of 1987?

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Grants broad authority to local officials to adapt fire protection services to community needs.

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What does an incident commander do?

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Conducts size-up, develops an action plan, assigns resources, builds a command structure, and ensures safe completion.

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What is a division supervisor’s role in ICS?

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Manages operations for a specific objective (e.g., protecting exposures) and provides progress reports to the IC.

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How are tasks assigned during an incident?

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Based on tactical priorities, available resources, SOPs, and company functions, prioritized by importance.

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What tasks are associated with rescue priority?

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Primary/secondary searches, raising ladders, removing occupants, providing medical care, and establishing rapid intervention crews.

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What tasks are associated with exposure priority?

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Establishing water supply, setting up master streams, placing handlines, or removing combustibles from exposures.

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What tasks are associated with fire confinement?

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Advancing handlines to the fire’s origin, stairways, or attic, and supporting ventilation efforts.

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What tasks are associated with fire extinguishment?

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Establishing water supply, advancing handlines to the fire’s seat, and applying extinguishing agents.

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What tasks are associated with overhaul?

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Pulling ceilings/walls, checking for fire extension, and removing or wetting burned material.

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What tasks are associated with ventilation?

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Performing vertical, horizontal, positive-pressure, negative-pressure, or natural ventilation.

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What tasks are associated with salvage?

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Using salvage covers, removing smoke, soaking up water, deactivating sprinklers, and securing valuable items.

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How are resources assigned to an incident?

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Based on history, tradition, budgets, and needs, ranging from single engines to multiple units and mutual aid.

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What is mutual aid?

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Assistance from surrounding fire departments when an incident exceeds local capabilities.

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What is a local emergency plan?
Defines agency responsibilities and steps for specific situations, activated via the dispatch center or emergency management office.
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Who handles evacuation notifications?
The police department, using public address systems, emergency broadcasts, or reverse 911.
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What agencies assist with large-scale evacuations?
The Red Cross for shelters, mutual aid companies, or other agencies if fire crews are occupied.
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What guides evacuation distances for hazardous materials?
The Emergency Response Guidebook, local hazmat teams, or CHEMTREC, based on product and conditions.
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Why is fire fighter emotional health a challenge?
Due to high EMS workloads, with 7-37% of fire fighters meeting PTSD criteria and rising suicide rates.
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How does the fire service’s paramilitary structure impact management?
Rigid command is used in emergencies, but empowerment and delegation are used for nonemergency tasks.
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What is the most frequent fire service activity?
EMS calls, accounting for 64% of responses, compared to 4% for fire suppression.
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What are the second most common fire service responses?
Activated fire protection system alarms, often due to faulty systems or false calls.
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What are the third most common fire service responses?
Investigating odors, hazardous conditions, or other service calls.
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Why are structure fires still dangerous despite declining numbers?
Due to flashover, structural collapse, and deferred maintenance in aging or renovated buildings.
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How have weather events impacted fire departments?
Increased frequency of floods, wildfires, and billion-dollar disasters strain fire department resources.
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How has diversity in the fire service evolved?
From assimilation in the 1960s to inclusion, valuing diverse traits like compassion to create belonging.
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How do fire departments interact with other agencies?
By coordinating with EMS, law enforcement, public works, or tow operators, as seen in motor vehicle crashes.
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What roles do other agencies play in incidents?
Police handle security/investigations, emergency management handles evacuations, and Red Cross manages shelters.
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What is collective bargaining?
The process where unions negotiate employment terms like salary, benefits, and working conditions.
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What is the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932?
Made yellow dog contracts unenforceable, preventing employers from prohibiting union membership.
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What is the Wagner-Connery Act of 1935?
Established collective bargaining procedures, the NLRB, and outlawed unfair labor practices.
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What is the Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947?
Balanced union power, required good faith bargaining, and prohibited forcing nonunion worker firings.
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What is the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959?
Established a bill of rights for union members and required annual financial reporting.
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What are right-to-work laws?
Laws in 29 states allowing workers to opt out of union membership or dues as a condition of employment.
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What was the Postal Workers’ Strike of 1970?
An illegal strike leading to union recognition and wage increases without penalties for strikers.
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What was the PATCO Strike of 1981?
Air traffic controllers were fired and the union decertified, reducing public-sector strikes.
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Why are fire fighter strikes controversial?
They impact public safety, leading to negative public reactions and legislative changes.
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What is FIREPAC?
The IAFF’s political action committee, raising funds to support pro-fire fighter candidates and issues.
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What are common fire fighter strike periods?
1918-1921 for working conditions, 1931-1933 for wages/staffing, and 1973-1980 for contracts.
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What is an impasse in labor negotiations?
A deadlock requiring a state or federal negotiator to start fact-finding for binding arbitration.
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What is transformational leadership?
A process where a leader engages others to raise motivation and morality in both leader and follower, transforming people.
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What is a transactional relationship?
A relationship where parties act for self-interest, expecting reciprocation, like rewards for tasks or penalties for failures.
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How does transformational leadership build commitment?
Through idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration.
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What is idealized influence in leadership?
Leaders act consistently with values, building trust, respect, and commitment to organizational goals.
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What is inspirational motivation?
Leaders articulate a clear, optimistic future vision, encouraging teamwork and high performance standards.
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What is intellectual stimulation?
Leaders foster critical thinking, challenge assumptions, and encourage nontraditional problem-solving.
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What is individualized consideration?
Leaders listen to followers’ needs, offer praise, recognize achievements, and provide mentoring.
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What is goal-setting in performance evaluation?
Establishing specific, challenging, attainable goals over a period to motivate and focus fire fighters.
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What does S.M.A.R.T. stand for in goal-setting?
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
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What are examples of fire fighter goals?
Completing a building construction course, qualifying as an aerial operator, or learning preincident planning software.
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What is an activity log?
An informal record of a fire fighter’s activities by date with performance observations for evaluations.
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What is a T-account?
A documentation system listing a fire fighter’s assets (positives) and liabilities (negatives) like a balance sheet.
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What is a 'hot wash' review?
A debriefing immediately after an incident to identify issues needing prompt attention or later follow-up.
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What is just culture?
A focus on systems design and behavioral choices rather than errors and outcomes to address performance issues.
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What are the five levels of human intention in just culture?
Human error, at-risk behavior, reckless behavior, knowingly causing harm, purposely causing harm.
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What is human error?
An inadvertent action like a slip, lapse, or mistake, such as oversleeping and arriving late.
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What is at-risk behavior?
A choice that increases risk when the risk is not recognized or is mistakenly justified.
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What is reckless behavior?
A conscious choice to disregard a substantial, unjustified risk, like not wearing SCBA during ventilation.
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What is the reasonable person standard?
The actions a similar person with the same background would take in the same situation.
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How is human error addressed?
By identifying contributing factors (process, training, environment) and coaching to avoid recurrence.
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How is at-risk behavior corrected?
Understand the thought process, ensure risk recognition, and provide training or revise policies.
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What responses address reckless behavior?
Remedial training, formal discipline, or punitive action after consulting a supervisor.
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When should substandard performance be notified?
At least 10 weeks before the annual evaluation to allow time for improvement.
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What is a work improvement plan?
A plan identifying performance deficiencies and required improvements over a set period.
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What is progressive negative discipline?
A process escalating from mild to severe punishments for continued poor performance.
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What are the steps of progressive negative discipline?
Counseling, verbal reprimand, written reprimand, suspension, termination.
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What behaviors require immediate negative discipline?
Willful misconduct, false information, policy violations, or criminal convictions.
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What is a formal written reprimand?
An official document detailing a violation, placed in the personnel file, expiring after a set period.
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What is a Loudermill hearing?
A pretermination hearing ensuring due process by allowing the employee to respond to charges.
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What is a predisciplinary conference?
A hearing before suspension or termination where the employee refutes charges or presents mitigating factors.
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What are alternative disciplinary actions?
Extending probation, special evaluation periods, involuntary transfers, restitution, loss of leave, or demotion.
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What is a suspension?
A disciplinary action removing a fire fighter from duties, typically without pay, for 1-30 days.
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What is restrictive duty?
A temporary assignment isolating a fire fighter from the public during an investigation.
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What is termination?
Ending employment when an employee is deemed unsuitable, issued by a senior official.
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When is the mid-year review conducted?
Halfway through the evaluation period to assess progress on goals and adjust if needed.
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What happens 6 weeks before the annual evaluation?
The fire fighter self-evaluates, and the officer provides feedback to prepare the final evaluation.
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What are common evaluation errors?
Leniency/severity, personal bias, recency, central tendency, frame of reference, halo/horn effect, contrast effect.
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What is leniency in evaluations?
Rating all fire fighters higher than their actual performance to avoid conflict.
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What is the halo and horn effect?
Applying one exceptional or poor performance aspect to all areas of a fire fighter’s evaluation.
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What are the four borders of human resources?
Federal/state laws, labor contract, jurisdiction regulations, fire department policies.
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What federal laws commonly affect fire fighters?
FLSA, Title VII, ADEA, ADA, FMLA, USERRA, FOIA, HIPAA.
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What is performance management?
Setting standards and evaluating performance to meet organizational goals efficiently.
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How does just culture improve safety?
By designing better systems, controlling factors, adding barriers, recovery, and redundancy.
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What is the HFACS used for?
Analyzing near-miss reports, classifying unsafe acts, preconditions, supervision, and organizational influences.
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What is risk management in the fire service?
Identifying hazards, selecting techniques, implementing solutions, and monitoring results for safety.
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What is the Swiss cheese model?
A model where defensive layers have holes; aligned holes allow accidents unless barriers or recovery stop them.
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What is professional development?
Acquiring skills and knowledge for personal and career advancement through education and training.
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What is the difference between training and education?
Training focuses on practical application; education imparts knowledge through systematic instruction.
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What is academic accreditation?
A process of self- and peer-assessment to ensure academic quality and degree recognition.
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What are the two fire service accreditation bodies?
National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications (NBFSPQ) and International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC).

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