Comm Manual Chapter 10 add. 2

Question 1

Buildings seperated by how many feet from the fire building should not be identified as exposures? (unless the volume of fire or complexity of the incident causes an exposure problem)

Answer 1

30 feet

Question 2

What do numbers indicate on the fire building regarding exposures?

Answer 2

Direction (left, rear, right)

Question 3

What do letters indicate from the main fire building in regards to exposures?

Answer 3

distance from the main fire building or fire

Question 4

What is letter “A” in regard to the main fire building?

Answer 4

second building (expsoure 2 or exposure 4 is the first building)

Question 5

How can you eliminate confusion regarding identifying rear exposures?

Answer 5

All buildings in the rear shall be referred to as exposure “3.” (if operations on exposure “3” become too complex, the IC should create a sector and assign a sector offiecer to manage this area

Question 6

Which direction are wings identified in and “H”?

Answer 6

left to right looking at the front of the building (the part of the building connecting each wing shall be designated the throat and should be referred to as the throat between “A” wing and “B” wing)